We love Pope Francis and would like to share some of his words below as they are comforting and relevant to us during this time.
"The loss of a son or daughter is like time stopping altogether: it opens a chasm that swallows both past and future. For parents, surviving their own children is particularly heartbreaking; it contradicts the fundamental nature of the very relationships that give meaning to the family. Death touches us and when it is a child's, it touches us profoundly.
"The loss of a son or daughter is like time stopping altogether: it opens a chasm that swallows both past and future. For parents, surviving their own children is particularly heartbreaking; it contradicts the fundamental nature of the very relationships that give meaning to the family. Death touches us and when it is a child's, it touches us profoundly.
Our loved ones are not lost in the darkness of nothing: hope assures us that they are in the good and strong hands of God. Love is stronger than death.
Thus, the way is to let love grow, make it stronger, and love will guard us until the day that every tear shall be wiped away, when 'death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more' (Rev 21:4)...
All our loved ones who are gone, the Lord will give them back to us and we will be together with them forever."
~ Pope Francis (General Audience, St. Peter's Square, June 17, 2015)
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