To Bring Comfort and Consolation
Extent: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Messenger Publications
While our daily newspapers and television bring us continual news of war and disaster, our historians reinforce this state with multitudinous echoes of past loss and the toll it took. There are days when there seems to be little comfort to be found anywhere in this tormented world. Paddy Shannon is a married layman who worked for nearly twenty years with Cruse Bereavement Care across Northern Ireland, a country where all communities of whatever identity have suffered pain and loss over the decades.
In this career he developed through parish work a way of bringing aid and comfort to those he encountered and he has since worked to share this experience and knowledge not only with communities, but with individuals. His theme is that the traditional rituals and practices of bereavement and mourning of the Christian traditions can still be utilised to bring real comfort to communities and those struggling to survive within them.
The Church indeed is a way in which the community can steady and sustain people, which are what it is there for after all. Many think and say the Church has no real role in modern Ireland, North or South. And yet there are times when many, indeed most, still turn, almost instinctively, to the devices that served their people in the past. Seemingly derided, religious belief still carries on. The book is rich in advice, in extracts, and readings, many of which will be new or unfamiliar. This is the kind of book which every parish, and every community, can learn from.
Death can be very sudden and unexpected. There need to be those everywhere who have thought ahead. In time of need they are a truly necessary source of comfort and consolation, and as such not to be neglected.
Reviewer: Peter Costello, The Irish Catholic, May 2022
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Description
About the book
This book is directed primarily to those involved in bereavement ministry, and is based on the course designed by the author for his own use in training in a parish setting.
It is divided into five sections:
The human experience of Grief – drawing on his own experiences as well as the writings of some leading experts in grief; the Liturgy of Mourning as used in the Catholic Church; Grief in the Scriptures; a selection of suggested Scripture readings with reflections and some sample prayers of intercession. These are intended to be used by ordained and lay ministers for their personal reflection and in preparing funeral homilies. They may also be of solace to grieving people; and finally, a selection of prose, poems and prayers.
About the Author
Paddy Shannon worked for eighteen years with Cruse Bereavement Care, overseeing the development of the organisation across Northern Ireland. He has spoken at conferences and delivered training workshops on grief and bereavement ministry across Ireland, the UK and internationally.