Christmas Can Be Painful for Divorced Catholics
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Just a quick note to wish you all a very, merry Christmas. This can be a very difficult time of year for those going through separation and divorce as well as for those who have been divorced for a while but who find that this time of year can magnify feelings of loneliness and loss. And if this is the year when your spouse gets to spend Christmas day with your children….well, enough said. That’s just even harder.
I wish you all faith that grows stronger now and into the new year. For this is the key to the speediest and most complete, deep down recovery from the pain, fear and changes that are brought about by divorce. If you find that your faith is weak right now because of the divorce, please hang in there and “fake it til you make it.” This is exactly what happened to me but I kept practicing my faith and trying to pray…and my faith eventually returned stronger than ever. And I became stronger than ever as a result.
Also…I’ve highly recommended this so many times and in so many places, but please bear with me while I recommend it again….go to www.DivorcedCatholic.com and join the site (it’s free!) and then become active on the forum. It’s a great place to talk with others who understand what you’re going through and this is VERY healing. It’s quite a gift from the authors of Divorced. Catholic. Now What? – Lisa Duffy and Vince Frese. Please take advantage of it being there for you.
God bless you and your children and bring you peace!
And MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Manya
By the way..I’ve decided to start off the year by going through the process of total consecration to Jesus through Mary. This entails daily prayers and readings for approx. 30 days (if you go through the entire process). I plan to give more info here but if you want info now, go HERE. I also purchased the book that is recommended for this, but they say it’s not necessary to have. Greg & Jennifer Willits of The Rosary Army have made all the prayers available on their site and you can even download the audio prayers to your iPod! I’ll be starting on Dec. 31st…perhaps we could go through this together. 
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Manya, So happy for you regarding doing the consecration and preparation! I renewed mine this year with (almost) the whole preperation prayers and meditations. It is such a comfort to me to totally give everything to Mary and know that everything in my life belongs to her now. It has especially been a comfort during my divorce process and grief, to know that she cares even more than I do and that her motherly love is with me at every moment. I pray that you will be truly blessed by the experience and continued relationship of the consecration. Through the years I have taken on the practice of entrusting all the prayer requests to Mary and asking to gather all the intentions of those who have asked for my prayer, who I have offered or intended to pray for, and those who are most in need of my prayer into a beautifully arranged bouquet to present to her son, Jesus. What a wonderful joy to belong totally to Jesus through Mary!