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 It’s no secret that divorce is pandemic in our culture. Even among devout Catholics, divorce has become a frequent, painful reality. Lives are thrown into chaos and families are left in pieces, with one parent usually shouldering more of the burden of picking up those pieces alone. Depression is a common result for so many who’ve endured the shattering experience of divorce.
For Catholics, divorce can be especially stinging as it goes so much against the grain of deeply held beliefs and often leads to alienation from a social circle of other couples that was once so secure and comfortable. Others often don’t know what to say or how to help and the loneliness can be deep and abiding. Throw in the misunderstandings about receiving the sacraments as a divorced person, what to tell the children when a spouse has strayed or remarried and the confusion over what annulment actually means and the divorced Catholic can be in a mortal struggle.
A great resource, www.divorcedcatholic.com offers help and hope to Catholics who’ve experienced the pain of divorce. I was a guest on their radio show “Journey of Hope” discussing this subject of divorce and depression. On the show we tackled topics such as annulment and how to discern between the normal grief of losing a marriage and way of life, and more serious signs of depression…and offered some tips and advice for handling the pain and difficulties.
Click the play button below to listen to the show:
If you or someone you know has experienced the pain of divorce, know that there is hope! God will bring you out of the desert and restore you…in His time and if you let Him.
May God bless you in your own journey of hope.
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