Pope Francis: Through Faith, Mourning Loss of Loved Ones Can Strengthen Family Bonds
[2023-06-12 15:47:05]
These are words of Pope Francis in the weekly general audience speech at St. Peter's Square. The father continues his family's education series, reflecting the suffering when the family lost their families.
"Death is an exceptional experience that affects all families without exception," he said. "This is part of life, but death is never considered to be natural when you touch the feelings of your family."
Regarding the death of a child, the Pope said to parents that this experience seemed to contradict "the basic nature of this relationship which gives the family its own meaning".
The Jesuit reminded of the parents who met during Massa Santa Massa, and he showed him a picture of his dead son or daughter.
"Their eyes are full of pain, and death touches them, it touches them deeply when it's still a child, the whole family still looks awkward and words-free."
He also looked back on the experiences of children who lost their parents, very young children who have not had enough experience to "name" what happened in particular.
However, sometimes death may be expressed as "accomplice" by the Pope. Those accomplices, including hatred, jealousy, pride, greed, can turn experience into a more painful and unreasonable one.
"We are thinking of absurd" ordinary ". At some point, in some places, the increase in death and fear is caused by hatred and indifference to others. Let the Lord be free to get used to this situation! "
Pope Francis continued his teaching, "darkness of death" caused pain, but families still had the potential to protect the faith and love that we associate with people we love .
He said that through the resurrection of Christ, we can prevent death from "making our lives addictive, destroying our emotions and making us the most dark emptiness."
Ponte Bett, 78, said that through the belief in the resurrection, people can comfort "people we love will not be lost in what darkness". By enabling yourself to stick to this belief, the experience of mourning can strengthen the ties within your family.
Jesus is talking about the gospel of the widow's son, which was read before his speech, remembering that the pope noticed the gesture of Christ after raising the child from death.
"The gospel says" Jesus was returned to his mother. " This is our hope! All our loved ones have left - everyone - the Lord will welcome them to us. The pope said
In the last speech, Pope Francisco said that pastors in the church need to express the meaning of faith concretely to families who have lost their loved ones. He reminded Christians to return the child to his widow's mother again.
"When we meet them, when death ultimately conquers us, they will be like us and us all, it will be conquered by the cross of Jesus," the pope said It was.
After the death of a loved one, dealing with it is not easy. You will grieve and grieve. Mourning is a natural process where you accept serious losses. Mourning may involve a religious tradition that respects the dead, gathers with friends and family and shares your loss. Mourning is personal and may last several months or years. Sorrow is an external manifestation of your failure. Your sorrow may appear physically, emotionally, and psychologically. For example, crying is a physical expression and depression is a psychological expression. It is very important to let yourself express these emotions. Death is usually the subject to be avoided, ignored, or denied. It seems beneficial at first to sever yourself from pain, but you can not avoid sorrow forever. One day these feelings need to be solved, otherwise it may cause physical or emotional illness.
Contrary to sorrow, sadness represents how you feel the sorrow of losing a loved one, and mourning is an external manifestation of this loss. Mourning usually involves a culturally determined ceremony that helps mourners to understand the end of their loved ones and to provide the structure in a time that is very confusing.