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Families
During Times of Difficulty
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Bereavement |
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Bereavement Support
Groups
Carbondale, Marian
Community
Hospital
For information call 281-1000
Clarks Summit, Our Lady of the Snows Parish
First Wednesday of each month,
10:00 A.M.
Every other Sunday (January 8, 2006, etc.)
2 P.M.
Convenes at Our Lady of Snows Parish
Center (301 S State Street/US 6 & 11, church lower level)
Registration not required; for information
call 586-1741 and ask for Nettie Goldate.
Lake Ariel,
St. Thomas More Parish Center
Thursdays, April 24 - May 29, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Convenes in St. Thomas More Conference Room
Registration is essential: Madeline Gardiner,
RN, Coordinator at 698-5812
Mountaintop,
St. Jude Parish
May and November series
For information contact the parish office,
474-6315
Pittston, Parish Community of St.
Casimir, St. John the Evangelist, and St.
Joseph
Healing Hearts
Tuesday evenings, May & June, 7:00 P.M.
Tuesday evenings, September & October, 7:00
P.M.
Convenes in the Parish Dining Room
For information, call 654-0053
Pocono
Pines, Our Lady of the Lake Parish
Second Wednesday of every month, 9:00 a.m.
Convenes in Maloney Hall, lower level of the
Church
For information, call 646-6424 (weekdays) or
839-9346 (evenings)
Scranton, Mercy Hospice
Second Wednesday of every month,
2:45 P.M.
Convenes at
Immaculate
Conception
Parish
Center
(801 Taylor, church lower level)
For information and registration call
340-4979
West Hazleton, Transfiguration
Parish
Rectory
(213 W Green St., West
Hazleton)
Booster Club for those suffering a death of
family or friends; 9 sessions
Registration is required. Call
570-454-3933 between 8 A.M. and 4 P.M.
weekdays.
Wilkes-Barre, Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Parish
Annual series in November
For information, contact the parish office
at 824-7832.
Bereavement
support for parents
Our Lady of the Snows,
Clarks
Summit
Contact Susan Brier, 586-2162
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Loss
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The
Beginning Experience
Level (support)
groups and a weekend experience to help heal
from loss of a spouse through death,
divorce, or separation. The cost of a
weekend registration is $150 including
non-refundable deposit.
Weekends:
October 10 - 12, 2008
Fatima Renewal Center, Dalton
Beginning Experience Support group
(Level I)
Third Friday every month, 7 - 9 P.M.
St. Ann Parish Center
1200 St. Ann Street, Scranton
For information and registration, call
570-489-7769.
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programs and events
Winter gathering for divorced,
widowed, and separated persons
Summer picnic for divorced, widowed,
and separated persons
Occasional educational programs as
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Diocesan Marriage Tribunal
For information, call 207-2246.
If you are contemplating separation or
divorce without having sought
competent help
for your marriage, please consider these
possibilities:
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Retrouvaille
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A
weekend and follow-up sessions for stressed
marriages put on by trained priest and
married couples who have survived marital
difficulties; not counseling or group
therapy. A registration deposit is required
and a donation will be requested; finances
should not prevent attendance.
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Individual or marriage counseling
through Catholic Social Services
Ask your pastor or the
Family Life
Director for the name of a Catholic
counselor in private practice.
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Catholic Social Services
For information
about individual, marriage or family
counseling, adoption, financial
assistance and other services,
call 822-7118 (Wilkes-Barre) or 207-2283 (Scranton)
or click on
Catholic Social
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Victim Assistance
The role of the
Victim Assistance
Coordinator is to provide,
directly and through others, for the
immediate pastoral care of persons who claim
to have been sexually abused when they were
minors by a priest or deacon. The
coordinator is also charged with informing
those who have suffered such abuse that the
diocese stands ready to assist them.
For more information, you can contact:
Joan Holmes, Victim Assistance Coordinator,
344-5216
Domestic Violence
"When I Call For Help"
is the US Bishops’
message regarding domestic violence,
including advice for battered women.
Post-abortion support:
Project Rachel
www.hopeafterabortion.org
and Rachel’s Vineyard diocesan
retreat
Contact: Catholic Social Services
Denise Rowinski Mengak, Coordinator,
822-7118
Ed Casey, Coordinator, 207-2283
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