listen.accompany.heal

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

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"From Heartbreak to Hope"

 

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CONVENTION 2026 June 26–28 is coming to beautiful Pittsburgh, PA!

Begin your travel planning now! Every team, every team member, and all former participants are invited!
We need at least one member from each team to attend.

Online registration forms for both full and partial/commuter attendees will be posted very soon!
Workshop and specific tour information will follow separately but click on the registration links below
to see the details available thus far.

We hope to see as many of you at CONVENTION 2026 as possible … with banners, of course!

  Our Founders

Ann Marie
Ann Marie "Jo" Lamia
Sister Josephine Stewart, SSMN
S. Josephine Stewart, SSMN

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Beginning Again Webinar

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Fr. Dick Mevissen CSsR Spiritual Director

Questions from a Wounded Heart

Answered by 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 am I still looking for love?
Answer

Widowed
Q: Why do I just want to be alone?
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. …