INTRODUCTION. NOVEMBER – Family Losses and Endings.  Losses big and small are inevitable in daily life. Birth, growth, decline and death are the natural cycle of every element of creation, inanimate and those with greater consciousness. It may be a painless letting go, or a cataclysmic event or a source of renewal of the land. Extinction is a serious concern for the animal and plant kingdoms where in general numbers are decreasing while human numbers increase. For us created with special capabilities and gifts to love and hurt and forgive, this time of the year is a special gift to remember life and death and their Creator as well as ultimate resurrection and reunion with our loved ones. Pope Francis: If we accept death we can prepare ourselves for it.  The better we live on this earth, the greater the happiness we will be able to share with our loved ones in heaven. AL 258. For human beings to destroy the biological diversity of God’s creation, these are sins against the natural world, ourselves and against God.  LS8

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