{"id":186,"date":"2012-04-04T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T19:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staindy.server301.com\/church\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:39:13","slug":"bereavement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/bereavement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bereavement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Bereavement <\/strong><strong>Ministry<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When a member of our community dies, it is our responsibility and privilege to support the family with our compassion, prayers, and practical help. As a member of this committee, you may: write condolences to the family; have a Mass offered; help at funerals, wakes and\/or funeral meals; and share resources on death and dying issues. Occasionally the committee hosts memorial services or educational programs. The committee also created and maintains a Parish Book of Resurrection which lists every parish death from the inception of the parish.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tea and Empathy<\/em><\/strong> gatherings are an opportunity for parishioners to meet and share feelings of loss (including but not limited loss of loved ones, job security, relationship, etc.) in a safe, welcoming and supportive community.\u00a0 For more information, please contact parish office, 317-253-1461.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact: Julie Sherer, &#x6a;&#101;&#x77;&#x65;l&#x73;&#55;1&#x36;&#64;p&#x72;&#111;&#x64;&#x69;g&#x79;&#46;n&#x65;&#116;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bereavement Ministry When a member of our community dies, it is our responsibility and privilege to support the family with our compassion, prayers, and practical help. As a member of this committee, you may: write condolences to the family; have a Mass offered; help at funerals, wakes and\/or funeral meals; and share resources on death  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9704,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions\/9704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}