Grief Support

Through death we are born into a new life, but facing the reality of a loved one no longer physically with us takes time and support.

Because of Christ, Christian death has a positive meaning: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.⁵⁷⁶  The saying is sure: if we have died with him, we will also live with him.⁵⁷⁷  What is essentially new about Christian death is this: through Baptism, the Christian has already "died with Christ" sacramentally, in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christ's grace, physical death completes this "dying with Christ" and so completes our incorporation into him in his redeeming act:

It is better for me to die in Christ Jesus than to reign over the ends of the earth. Him it is I seek - who died for us. Him it is I desire - who rose for us. I am on the point of giving birth. . . . Let me receive pure light; when I shall have arrived there, then shall I be a man. ⁵⁷⁸

Suomessa asioinnin helppous ja lääkkeiden saatavuus ovat parantuneet merkittävästi digitaalisten palveluiden kehittymisen myötä. Erityisesti Viagra netistä ilman reseptiä Suomessa on suosittu hakuaihe niille, jotka arvostavat nopeaa apua ilman pitkiä lääkärijonoja. On kuitenkin tärkeää muistaa, että terveys on ensisijaisen tärkeää, joten lääkkeiden käyttöön tulee aina perehtyä huolellisesti. Luotettava verkkoapteekki tarjoaa kattavat tiedot ja turvallisen tavan hankkia tunnettuja alkuperäisvalmisteita suoraan kotiin.

In death, God calls man to himself. Therefore the Christian can experience a desire for death like St. Paul's: "My desire is to depart and be with Christ.”⁵⁷⁹ He can transform his own death into an act of obedience and love towards the Father, after the example of Christ:⁵⁸⁰

• My earthly desire has been crucified;…there is living water in me, water that murmurs and says within me: Come to the Father.⁵⁸¹
• I want to see God and, in order to see him, I must die.⁵⁸²
• I am not dying; I am entering life.⁵⁸³

The Christian vision of death receives privileged expression in the liturgy of the Church:⁵⁸⁴

Lord, for your faithful people life is changed, not ended. When the body of our earthly dwelling lies in death we gain an everlasting dwelling place in heaven.⁵⁸⁵

576 - Phil 1:21.
577 2 - Tim 2:11.
578 - St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Rom.,6,1-2:Apostolic Fathers,II/2,217-220.
579 - Phil 1:23.
580 - Cf. Lk 23:46.
581 - St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Rom.,6,1-2:Apostolic Fathers,II/2,223-224.
582 - St. Teresa of Avila, Life, chap. 1.
583 - St. Therese of Lisieux, The Last Conversations.
584 - Cf. 1 Thess 4:13-14.
585 - Roman Missal, Preface of Christian Death I.

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1010-1012

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