Catholic and Mourning a Loss

 5 challenges and 5 opportunities for Catholics to live and mourn through a loss:

5 Challenges

- Our ability to work through the grieving process will be tested

- Our life will be changed because of our loss

- Our ability to function will be questioned

- Our dreams for the future may have to be altered

- We will question our reliance on other and even on God

5 Opportunities

- We can learn to use the gifts that working through grief has offered us

- We can realize that change can be an opportunity for newness and growth

- We can explore the new-found strength that can be ours

- We can go beyond ourselves as we face the future

- We will be able to "let go and let God" be in control