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"Companions on the Journey" is a three-part series on grief and reaching out for support during the holidays.
Companions on the Journey, Part 3: Final installment in a series on grief and reaching out for support during the holidays
Laura Humphries, team facilitator for the Our Lady of the Holy Souls grief support ministry in Little Rock, understands the common reaction to the holiday season from people who are grieving.
“Many people want to crawl into a hole the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and not crawl out until Jan. 2,” she said.
Whether it has been a More... 
Second in a three-part series on grief and reaching out for support during the holidays
“No one told me that grief felt so much like fear.”
“A Grief Observed,” C. S. Lewis
In recounting the experience of losing her husband to cancer in 2013, Vicki Kaplon referred to this quote by C.S. Lewis.
“I had cared for my husband for two years and that last year was very difficult. After his death, I was then trying to figure out More...
First in a three-part series on grief and reaching out for support during the holidays
In the past three years there has been a noticeable rise in the number of grief support ministries now offered in parishes throughout the Diocese of Little Rock.
One reason is the diaconate ordination in 2012.
Deacon Mike Rector, facilitator of Ministry of Consolation at Christ the King Church in Little Rock, said, “In the third year of my diaconate program, the candidates More...
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