Weekends for divorced, widowed returning to Arkansas

From the Arkansas Catholic


BY MARYANNE MEYERRIECKS
FORT SMITH CORRESPONDENT

FORT SMITH — When widower Jim Bolt, a parishioner of St. Vincent de Paul Church in Rogers, went on a Beginning Experience weekend in April, he thought he’d been through all the grief of losing his wife to a three-year struggle with lung cancer. Instead, he learned a lot about himself.

“When I left the weekend I felt alive for the first time since my wife’s death,” Bolt said. “I went, I saw, and I came away a believer.”

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