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Elizabeth Ministry
Mass of Healing for
Miscarriage and Infant Loss Sunday, May 18, 2025
10:30am Mass
Church of the Holy Spirit
1355 Hatch Road
Webster, NY 14580
Refreshments and Resources available after Mass
The Church provides a means for mourning and support through the Liturgy of the
Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Parents and siblings, grandparents, family members and friends are all welcome to attend this Mass in remembrance of their child(ren). Refreshments, support and resources will be available after Mass. Please join us.
Elizabeth Ministry is an international Catholic support network for Miscarriage,
Stillbirth, and Infant Loss. To join our local email list or for more information about Elizabeth Ministry please contact: Molly Hickey at ElizabethMinistryROC@gmail.com or Janene Loughran #585.329.1974
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And if it was God’s will, then it was God’s will for Ted to die at an early age. Just like biographieswhen parents lose a loved one, a parent, child, or unborn fetus. Parents suffer through miscarriages. The fetus is an initial blessing that joins the parents to new life, and in the tragedy of losing the fetus it joins them even more. The fetus’s life is still life, still a blessing.
Like having a puppy. It is a blessing to find and adopt the puppies we have, but life leads to death. As I experienced when Ted died, it can be death that occurs within the embrace of love, with people who love us. This is God’s will, too. It is all part of accepting life. Accept God’s will, which involves such incredible diversity and change, blessings, and sufferings, too. But it is not my will, it is God’s will.
January 1987 , we suffered through a miscarriage , our first pregnancy. It was heartbreaking, truly heartbreaking. Just the two of us at home , not knowing what to do. I called Fr. Bruce Amering ,
our pastor at Blessed Sacrament Church .
Blessed Sacrament is where we exchanged Holy Matrimonial vows 26 months earlier.
Faith is my rock. Fr. Amering said he would be out to visit us later in the evening. We now lived in Penfield/Webster about 20 minutes away from Blessed Sacrament. It was winter and the roads were darkly lit most of the way to our home.
Fr. Amering came and was very comforting, we talked about loss & we prayed. He was very comforting and a very kind man.
My parents drove up from Long Island for the weekend. They were a huge emotional and spiritual support. They took our minds off of the loss of an infant.
Of course, we went to Mass on Sunday morning. Tears were flowing as we walked up the same steps, that we descended the first time as husband & wife in November 1984. Joy & sorrow, but both occasions were love based. Fr.
Amering greeted us, his words still resound with me today, "Your child knew nothing, but love ❤️ ."
Wow !! An unconditional love for a child we never knew.
Less than 14 months later , we were blessed with a daughter, and again we revisited Blessed Sacrament for our daughter's baptism. Trust in God, trust in love. Fr. Amering baptized Kristen Therese
Prayer for Miscarriage: A Prayer for the Parents
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the parents of this precious baby. Heal their broken hearts and strengthen their faith through this storm. Help them find comfort not only in Your word but in the words of friends or family who’ve experienced the same pain. Draw them closer to You through this tragedy and reveal Yourself to them in their time of need.
In the powerful name of Jesus, Amen.
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
Elizabeth Ministry
Mass of Healing for
Miscarriage and Infant Loss
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