loss

As parishes navigate change through All Things New, Father Steven Binsfeld reflects on how ritual, Eucharist, and shared imagination can carry the Church forward with hope amid loss.

In grief and change, God is planting renewal. Pastoral planning calls us to discover abundant life, rooted in faith, hope and bold trust.

Grief comes in many forms, but Christ meets us in them all — offering comfort, strength, and healing when we feel most broken.

In times of unavoidable grief and loss, the Church establishes good, sensitive rules and processes for handling these delicate, powerful moments.

“In a moment of unimaginable grief, faith carried us. Even in loss, God was present — holding every tear, every doubt, and transforming pain into something sacred.”

’Tis the season to spend money. What we lack in time, we try to make up for in money, throwing it at people and problems who actually need minutes and hours.

Baking Christmas cookies is a reminder of what it means to be a Christian: to live always with a sense of longing, of that joyful expectation tinged with sorrow that comes from knowing that the greatest desire of our heart will never be fulfilled in this earthly life.

In his latest book, Father James Martin writes about “Journeying into the place of letting go can be difficult.” He hopes to be “a guide down that staircase, into the tomb, and then back out into the light.”