Diocese offers healing ministries to help when life hurts
By Tami S. Scott
Editor
October is Respect Life Month, and the Syracuse Diocese is rich in healing ministries to serve people in times of challenges, difficulties, and pain — from conception to natural death. Over the next several weeks, The Catholic Sun will focus on the different issues, or chapters, that we may or must encounter in our lifetime, and provide help on how to navigate them so we may find peace through God’s grace. These topics will include pregnancy loss and infertility, relationship building for troubled marriages, separation and divorce, as well as grief and bereavement.
“[The] Church teaches us about life issues, not to impose rules but so we can freely choose what is true, good, and beautiful,” said Lisa Hall, director of Family/Respect Life Ministry. “The Church invites us to consider God’s ways because God made us and He knows what is best for us and what will bring us true happiness, peace, and blessing.
“The Church also knows that God made us with free will and we sometimes do not choose according to God’s designs and plans,” Hall continued. “In those cases, the Church welcomes us to come home. She wants us to know peace and reconciliation. This is where healing ministries are interconnected with life issues … because we don’t always choose God’s ways.”
The Family/Respect Life diocesan office staff welcomes guests to learn more about the ministries it offers by visiting syracusediocese.org/healing-ministries as well as syracusediocese.org/family-life. There, you can find contact information and more details on the various offerings.
