Support Programmes
Support Programmes
Death is a universal experience, and it knocks on the door of every family at some time. And even though we know that truth, it’s only when death finds a way into our own families, that we understand the difference between death as something echoing in the distance and death as a difficult and lonely experience.
Sometimes we can feel overwhelmed as we struggle with difficult thoughts and emotions that invariably accompanies the death of someone we love. Often too we long to feel supported and understood as we seek to reach a place of acceptance and peace again in our lives.
Our Bereavement Support Team offers a space that helps the bereaved to find this space. Recovery is never about moving on but rather about how to experience a new found peace and ease with life again.
Our Garden of Remembrance provides a beautiful space to remember your loved ones during your visit to Knock Shrine.
Further information on Bereavement Care at Knock Shrine from the Family Centre on 086-8360269; 094 9375320 or email familycentre@knockshrine.ie
Pictures of Remembrance Garden courtesy of Sinead Mallee.
Finding the strength to accept and integrate the pain we are faced with, following the death of a loved one, is challenging and often very difficult.
To help those who are struggling with this experience, Monica Morley will present a 4-week evening programme on ‘Understanding Grief and Loss – A Journey of Healing’ in St John’s Welcome Centre, Knock .
The programme will take place on 4 Tuesday nights – the 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th of April from 8-9.30pm.
Topics covered will include: How to best understand grief, managing difficult thoughts and feelings, where to find good support and how to reach peace again.
Places are limited. For further information or to reserve a place contact 094-9375320.
Taking place in the Basilica at 11am.
Takes place at 12 noon Mass on Sunday, June 9th 2024
The focus of the Family Centre is on the lived reality of family life as experienced in its varied and sometimes complex dimensions, joyful and sorrowful, life-enhancing and difficult. The approach is to foster a deeper awareness and a fuller understanding of the richness of family life through care programmes, prayer experiences and support networks.
This involves providing training to parents and support groups for those experiencing difficulties, working with individuals and groups in navigating the grieving process and celebrating key moments of family life by providing appropriate liturgies and ceremonies of blessings at Our Lady’s Shrine.