listen.accompany.heal

Peer grief support for the separated, divorced, and widowed.

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Beginning Experience Convention 2026 Pittsburgh

 

How blessed we were in Pittsburgh, PA!

Here's some content to date:

  • Top billing in Bishop Eckman's newsletter! Diocese of Pittsburgh // Flocknote
  • The incredible keynote has been posted on the speaker's YouTube page here!
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Our Founders

Ann Marie

Ann Marie "Jo" Lamia

Sister Josephine Stewart, SSMN

S. Josephine Stewart, SSMN

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Fr. Dick Mevissen CSsR

Fr. Dick Mevissen CSsR Spiritual Director

Questions from a Wounded Heart

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Fr. Dick Mevissen CSsR

These twelve reflections flow out of my long association
with divorced persons and those who minister with them
in a ministry which strives to assist people to find
healing in the midst of almost overwhelming grief and
anger associated with the painful end of a marriage
in divorce.

-Fr Dick Mevissen

Divorced

Q: Why do I just want to be alone?
Answer

Widowed

Q: Why am I still looking for love?
Answer

Pope Francis on Coping with Loss

 

“In the People of God, by the grace of his compassion
granted in Jesus, many families prove by their deeds
that death does not have the last word: this is a true
act of faith. Every time a family in mourning – even
terrible mourning – finds the strength to guard the
faith and love that unite us to those we love, it has
already prevented death from taking everything. The
darkness of death should be confronted with a more
intense work of love. ‘My God, lighten my darkness!’
is the invocation of evening prayer. …

 

 

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