Death and Dyings

	Fly While You Still Have Wings And Other Lessons My Resilient Mother Taught Me Author: Joyce Rupp Price: $16.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-933495-84-2 For thirty years, beginning with Fresh Bread in 1985, Joyce Rupp has comforted millions with such books as Praying Our Goodbyes and May I Walk You Home? For the first time, she shares the story of her own grief in the wake of her mother’s death, offering readers both a profile of her mother’s resilient spirit and a voice of compassion for their own experience of loss.
	River of Grace Creative Passages Through Difficult Times Author: Susan Bailey Price: $14.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-572-3 Catholic recording artist and popular blogger Susan Bailey reveals, in this personal and moving narrative, how several major losses helped her rediscover creativity and faith. Filled with powerful insights on the presence and action of grace—in the Mass and sacraments, in nature, and even in grief—River of Grace guides readers to strengthen their faith during tough times and discover their own hidden gifts.
	Winter of the Heart Finding Your Way through the Mystery of Grief Author: Paula D'Arcy Price: $6.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 64 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-763-5 We can't really prepare for grief. The only experts on grief are those who have survived it and then helped others do the same.
	The Journey Never Ends How to Prepare a Spiritual Will Author: Mary Petrosky, F.M.M. Foreword by: Thomas Lynch Afterword by: F. Edward Coughlin, O.F.M. Price: $9.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Booklet Pages: 96 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-805-2 In the first book of its kind specifically for Catholics, theologian, spiritual director, and social worker Sr. Mary Petrosky, F.M.M., shows how a spiritual will—a document that outlines your values, intentions, and hopes for the future—can help you focus on what’s most important in your life. As you grow older, it will be something you’ll want to share with those you love.
	My Soul Feels Lean Poems of Loss and Restoration Author: Joyce Rupp Price: $16.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 176 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-933495-56-9 Long beloved for her artful prayers, bestselling author Joyce Rupp presents an entirely new collection of 106 meditative poems on a theme she has woven masterfully through all her writing—the pain of loss and the hope of restoration.
	Mortal Blessings A Sacramental Farewell Author: Angela Alaimo O'Donnell Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-408-5 In this lyrical adieu to her mother, renowned Catholic essayist, poet, and professor Angela O’Donnell explores how the mundane tasks of caregiving during her mother’s final days—bathing, feeding, taking her for a walk in her wheelchair—became rituals or ordinary sacraments that revealed traces of the divine.
	Praying Our Goodbyes A Spiritual Companion Through Life's Losses and Sorrows Author: Joyce Rupp Price: $16.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-205-0 With 250,000 copies sold, this new edition of Joyce Rupp’s most popular book offers a fresh opportunity for readers to reflect, ritualize, and reorient themselves as they navigate life’s inevitable changes.
	When Your Spouse Dies A Concise and Practical Source of Help and Advice Author: Cathleen Curry Price: $11.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Trim size: 5.5 x 8 inches ISBN: 978-0-87793-416-5 Writing about her own journey as a widow, Cathleen Curry helps others deal with theirs. She establishes eight practical guideposts for getting through the first year and deals with a variety of topics including the stages of grief for adults and children, the expressions of mourning, loneliness and sexuality, financial priorities and planning, good health practices, and the importance of spiritual growth to the healing process.
	On My Way Home A Hospice Nurse's Journey with Terminal Cancer Author: Joyce Hutchison Foreword by: Joyce Rupp Afterword by: Joyce Rupp Price: $13.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-729-1 Joyce Hutchison, a pioneer in the hospice movement who twice chronicled her work as an oncology nurse in the popular books May I Walk You Home? and Now That You've Gone Home, reveals her own journey with lung cancer as her death approaches in On My Way Home. Hutchison shares not only the heartbreak and pain she experienced in these last years of her life, but also her continued sense of God walking with her during these challenging times.
	May I Walk You Home? Courage and Comfort for Caregivers of the Very Ill Author: Joyce Hutchison Author: Joyce Rupp Price: $13.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-214-2 Reissued on its tenth anniversary, May I Walk You Home? remains an invaluable resource for professional caregivers and loved ones assisting someone on their final journey home. Accompanied by the experience and empathy of hospice educator Joyce Hutchison and the wisdom and inspiration of best-selling author Joyce Rupp, readers will discover the courage necessary to embrace the struggles and rewards of this final companionship.
	Now That You've Gone Home Courage and Comfort for Times of Grief Author: Joyce Hutchison Author: Joyce Rupp Price: $12.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-215-9 Building on the success of May I Walk You Home? (50,000 copies sold since 1999), this collection of twenty-five stories of loss picks up where the first book left off, helping readers to navigate the bewildering landscape of grief once a loved one has died. Each story by hospice educator Joyce Hutchison is complemented by prayers and meditations composed by Joyce Rupp, best-selling author and spiritual guide. Together, co-authors Rupp and Hutchison address some of the more difficult issues that come with the loss of a loved one, including remarriage and feelings of relief/regret.
	Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies Author: Marta Felber Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-0-87793-932-0 There is nothing you need more than the warm, reassuring voice of one who has traveled this path before. . . and survived after suffering the death of a spouse. In Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies, Marta Felber offers just such a voice-caring, hopeful, always pointing ahead to a tomorrow that will be a little easier than today. Having experienced her own spouse's death, Felber is never glib or simplistic. She knows the grief her readers are feeling and she encourages them to give it full expression. At the same time, she offers sound, practical suggestions on how to navigate difficult days. This book shies away from none of the difficult issues of bereavement. Felber gently urges her readers toward careful, honest examination of the issues they face.
	Finding Your Way After Your Parent Dies Hope for Grieving Adults Author: Richard Gilbert Price: $13.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-0-87793-694-7 Rev. Richard Gilbert has created a compassionate guide for those struggling with the loss of a parent. Bringing many years of experience in bereavement counseling, Gilbert sketches out some of the issues that arise in the wake of a parent's death and offers practical suggestions for navigating these difficulties. From the disorientation that can come immediately after death to relating to the surviving parent to healing old emotional wounds, the topics dealt with here will be of tremendous help to many.
	The Mystery of Suffering Author: Hubert van Zeller Foreword by: Al Kresta Price: $12.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-0-87061-296-1 In The Mystery of Suffering—a timeless classic first written in 1963—celebrated British Benedictine monk, author, and sculptor Hubert van Zeller (1905-1984) offers an eloquent response to the question of human suffering: Those who endure suffering with hope and trust in Divine Providence will embark on an ever-deeper path to holiness that leads to eternal glory.
	God Knows You're Grieving Things to Do to Help You Through Author: Joan Guntzelman Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-893732-39-1 Comfort and encouragement for those who grieve ... from those who've been there. Through stories of persons who have journeyed through their own grieving, God Knows You're Grieving is a practical, consoling and encouraging source of support for anyone encountering loss and grief. There are no simple directions or right ways to grieve, no quick fixes for the pain of loss. But in these pages you will find something that is right for you—a prayer, a sacred writing, some words of wisdom, or a story from someone who has been there—something to touch your heart and help you along the way. Despite all the distress, painful emotion, and change, despite the ache in our hearts and often even in our bodies, we can gradually pull our lives back together again. God Knows You're Grieving will help you get through.
	May You Find Comfort A Blessing for Times of Grieving Author: Joyce Rupp Price: $4.50 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Booklet Pages: 32 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-244-9 Bereavement ministers, parish nurses, priests, deacons, and other members of pastoral teams will appreciate this simple booklet as a gift for the bereaved. It offers an elegant prayer and meditation in a beautiful layout, expressing the deep care and concern of the faith community.
	ABCs of Healthy Grieving A Companion for Everyday Coping Author: Harold Ivan Smith Price: $12.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 176 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-127-5 Losing a loved one is wrenching, and, in times of grief, wordy reading on healing offers little solace. In ABCs of Healthy Grieving, nationally recognized grief educator Harold Ivan Smith combines over twenty-five years of professional experience into seventy-two brief suggestions that treat particular aspects of living with grief day to day. Each suggestion starts with a letter of the alphabet and ends with an "I can" statement that offers both realistic hope and a goal toward which to strive. Readers can read ABCs of Healthy Grieving cover to cover or choose a single topic to help them through each day.
	Pray with Me Still Rosary Meditations and Spiritual Support for Persons with Alzheimer's, Their Caregivers and Loved Ones Author: Holy Cross Family Ministries Foreword by: John Phalen, C.S.C. Price: $5.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Booklet Pages: 64 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-077-3 The Rosary has been an important prayer tool for centuries, a source of tranquility and meditative peace. Praying the Rosary offers a special comfort to people suffering with Alzheimer's or dementia and to those who love and care for them. In these pages, caregivers and loved ones will find Rosary meditations to soothe and nurture, plus meditations created especially for sharing with Alzheimer's patients, offering a way to maintain or re-establish connections. With practical insight into the spiritual lives of Alzheimer's patients, plus a guide to praying the Rosary, Pray with Me Still is an ideal resource for caregivers of those suffering with Alzheimer's.
	One Day He Beckoned One Woman's Story of the Difference Jesus Made Author: Antoinette Bosco Price: $12.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-0-87793-999-3 One Day He Beckoned is the story of the difference that Jesus has made in journalist Antoinette's Bosco's life. It's a story of adversity and heartache most of us can only imagine. It takes us through a childhood cut short as she helped care for her younger siblings when her troubled mother could not. Through a disastrous marriage arranged by her traditional Italian father. Through life as a single mother of six children. And through the unspeakable pain of losing two children, one to suicide and one to murder.
	A Season of Grief A Comforting Companion for Difficult Days Author: Ann Dawson Price: $16.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-0-87793-978-8 Poignant, inspiring, and encouraging reflections for those who grieve from one who has been there. For Ann Dawson, her "season of grief" came with the death of her 18-year-old son, Andrew, who was killed in a car accident the summer after his high school graduation. As she sought to find meaning in the senselessness of her son's death, Ann looked to the words of others who had grieved the loss of a loved one. In reading numerous books, she came to realize she was not alone in her sorrow, that others had walked this path of grief and transcended the pain. Now in A Season of Grief, she shares this realization with others. This book is a remarkable collection of quotations, personal reflections, and prayers intended for those who find themselves in their own "season of grief." The insights and stories from Ann's own experience are carefully placed along side the comforting and often inspiring words of writers like C.S. Lewis and Kahlil Gibran. Whether you've lost a child, a spouse, a parent, or a friend, A Season of Grief promises to be a comforting companion in the difficult days ahead.
	In Times of Grieving Prayers of Comfort and Consolation Author: Robert Hamma Price: $9.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-016-2 Grief is a long and difficult journey that we sometimes we travel alone, sometimes with others, and always, with God. In Times of Grieving offers those who are grieving a simple way to pray, a compass to guide the way. Chapters focus on issues and emotions that trouble those who are grieving: shock, anger, fear, feelings of being overwhelmed, loss of faith, hopelessness, acceptance, praying for the deceased, gratefulness, memories. Whether you are grieving or want to share the gift and power of prayer with someone who has experienced loss, In Times of Grieving offers a comforting blend of scriptural, classic, and contemporary prayers and reflections.
	A Sorrow Shared A Combined Edition of the Nouwen Classics In Memoriam and A Letter of Consolation Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Foreword by: Barbara Brown Taylor Price: $13.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-253-1 With combined sales of over 200,000 copies, Henri Nouwen’s classic works In Memoriam and A Letter of Consolation are put together in one volume for the first time in A Sorrow Shared, forming a Henri Nouwen biography of grief that offers an intimate glimpse into his grieving process following the death of his mother.
	Gentle Keeping Prayers and Services for Remembering Departed Loved Ones Throughout the Year Author: Mauryeen O'Brien, O.P. Price: $7.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-130-5 At last a book of simple prayers and prayer services for those who mourn that is intended for use at the dining room table or on the living room couch. Author and bereavement ministry leader Mauryeen O'Brien offers grieving loved ones words for remembering those who have died. Designed for use in the home with family and friends, Gentle Keeping offers comfort for the grieving and gentle guidance on leading prayer. With prayers for particular people and special occasions, these twenty-eight simple prayers and twenty-five prayer services sustain those who mourn through the ordinary and not-so-ordinary days of the year.