Catholic and Mourning 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