Bereavement meeting

Today I attended a meeting at the St. Joesph the worker parish for people that are dealing with a loss and are going through the greiving process. We started by reader a the gospel of Luke chapter 17: 11-19 I think it was about the ten lepers and only one came back to thank Jesus for cleansing him. We reflected on its meaning and said that it would be a good thing to think about all the people we have forgotten to thank and give them a call or send them a note thanking them. Then we went on to watch a movie about how the church is like a hospital for our spiritual life. When we are grieving the Church community gives us support. the movie talked about how family can help the individual grieving and so can a church family. It said the church is like a family not an institution. I couldn't stay for the discussion after because I had a class to go to but what I did observe was good I feel like the people there needed to here that the church is a form of a family.