Why Do You Weep?: Finding Consolation and Peace in Times of Grief

by Kaufmann, Larry; Wales, Sean; Pollitt, Russell

• ISBN13: 9780764820779
• ISBN10: 076482077X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-15
• Publisher: Liguori Pubns

Summary

"Woman, why are you weeping?" was the question the angels put to Mary Magdalene at the tomb of Jesus. Mary Magdalene's grief was real, and it was deep. But as she expressed her grief, the risen Christ himself came to her and said, "Mary!" Jesus comes to us, too, when we mourn the death of those we have loved. The reflections in this book are designed to bring us into contact with the compassion of Jesus as we struggle with questions of faith and feelings of loss in the face of death. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Larry Kaufmann, CSsR, is the provincial for the Redemptorist Province of South Africa. He is a regular contributor to Redemptorist Pastoral Publications in South Africa, the original publisher of Why Are You Weeping? (this book's original title). He completed his doctorate at the Alphonsianum in Rome on contextual theology in South Africa. Sen Wales, CSsR, is the parish priest of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Bergvliet, South Africa, a suburb of Cape Town. He has pastoral experience in Northern Ireland, England, and South Africa, and he has lectured in philosophy at the Franciscan Study Center in Canterbury, England, and at Saint Joseph's Theological Institute in South Africa. Russell Pollitt, SJ, is the parish priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Johannesburg, South Africa, and chaplain to the universities of the Witwatersrand and Johannesburg. He has done studies on the impact of technology on spirituality.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 5
Holy Saturday of Grief	p. 7
"Blessed Are They Who Mourn, for They Will Be Comforted"	p. 11
Love Never Ends	p. 17
Living With Suicide	p. 26
Death and Forgiveness	p. 36
Augustine's Tears	p. 47
The Bereaved Child	p. 56
Reconciliation Beyond the Grave?	p. 58
The Book of Job and the Stages of Grief	p. 61
Reflections and Prayers	p. 68
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