Faith In Brooklyn for November 13
Bereavement Conference Offers Workshops, Music on Healing
Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens co-sponsored its second-annual Bereavement Conference last Saturday at St. John’s University. Themed “Journey to Healing: We Remember; We Celebrate; We Believe,” the conference was a joint partnership of Catholic Charities, Catholic Cemeteries, Diocese of Brooklyn and the Vincentian Center for Church & Society at St. John’s.
The afternoon conference, which brought in approximately 240 attendees, was hosted at St. John’s D’Angelo Center, offered various workshops such as Spousal Loss, Men and Grief, Art and Grief, Trauma and Caregivers among others the workshop concluded with a Mass, with the Most Reverend Paul R. Sanchez, DD, Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, presiding. The Mass was celebrated at St. Thomas More Church on St. John’s University’s Great Lawn.