{"id":7305,"date":"2022-09-30T00:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T04:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/spiritual-support-separated-divorced-persons\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:13:45","slug":"spiritual-support-separated-divorced-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/spiritual-support-separated-divorced-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Support for Separated or Divorced Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Following the success of last year&#8217;s program, the <b>Diocesan Centre for Marriage, Life and Family<\/b> is pleased to offer again a monthly series of encounters of<b> listening, accompaniment and group development<\/b>&nbsp;led by Mr. Francis Joannette, permanent deacon. Mr. Joannette holds a certification in psycho-spiritual accompaniment and has been serving the faithful of the Archdiocese of Montreal as a permanent deacon since 2016.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThese monthly online meetings are meant to be a space of dialogue and sharing between adults who want to rebuild themselves in Christ in order to get back on their feet and continue to walk in faith.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\u201cThe Church must accompany with attention and care the weakest of her children, who show signs of a wounded and troubled love, by restoring in them hope and confidence, like the beacon of a lighthouse in a port or a torch carried among the people to enlighten those who have lost their way or who are in the midst of a storm\u201d. Pope Francis, The Joy of Love, no.291.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><b>When<\/b>: Saturday afternoons: November 5, December 3* (retreat), February 4, March 4, April 1, May 6* (fraternal meal)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Time<\/b>: 1:30 pm &#8211; 3:30 pm (including a break)<\/p>\n\n<p>* Retreat and meal times may slightly differ. More details to come.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Where<\/b>: Zoom (link will be sent upon registration)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Cost<\/b>: Free &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Themes<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNovember 5: <i>Letting go : When we are weak, we discover our true strength <\/i><br \/>\nDecember 3: In-person diocesan retreat, details to come<br \/>\nFebruary 4: <i>Mourning and hope<\/i><br \/>\nMarch 4: <i>Loving yourself and knowing that you are loved:&nbsp;Believing that we have the capacity to bounce back<\/i><br \/>\nApril 4:&nbsp;<i>Trust: Crisis of confidence in yourself, in others and perhaps even in God<\/i><br \/>\nMay 6:&nbsp; In-person sharing of a simple, fraternal meal<\/p>\n\n<p>For more information and to register, <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/spiritualsupport22-23  \">click the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DCMLF Spiritual support for separated or divorced persons\" data-entity-type=\"\" data-entity-uuid=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CDMVF_SoutienSpirituel_2022-23_banner_ENG_final_865x487.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the success of last year&#8217;s program, the Diocesan Centre for Marriage, Life and Family is pleased to offer again&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7307,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/7307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}