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Gratitude with Grief: Holding Both in Catholic Life
Can you be grateful while grieving? Should you even try? In this episode, licensed marriage and family therapist Adam Cross tackles one of the most challenging tensions in Catholic spiritual life: how to honor our grief while maintaining gratitude for God's goodness.
Drawing on Scripture, theological insights from Father Raniero Cantalamessa and Dr. Shan Tobin, and his clinical experience, Adam explores:
Why "just be grateful" advice can feel dismissive (even when well-intentioned)
The biblical story of St. Paul singing hymns in prison
How God became man to suffer with us, not just console us…
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