Together As Body: Persisting Love In, With, & Through Grief

Please be advised: This episode references child loss.

Season 8 of Universal Voices is back with an all new mini-series. This season we explore how different folks within the Universal Church are experiencing community within the Body of Christ. In this episode, Alissa welcomes Monica Garcia to the podcast. The two women talk of Stephen, Monica's beloved son, their family, and their parish community. They enter into sacred conversation around the loss of a child, walking in and with grief and love that persists. They also talk about:

• Parenting teens and young adults.
• Being a dreamer and a servant.
• Having a hungry heart as a Christian
• Stephen as firecracker and as guiding light.
• Grief for each person in a family.
• How the Garcia's parish showed up in their grief, and why.
• Intentionally grieving as family.
• Red Bird Ministries.

Find out more about Red Bird Ministries here.

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Monica Garcia is a Catholic convert, wife, mother of seven, and grandmother of one from Abilene, Texas, whose faith has been deeply shaped by life’s joys and its sorrows.  She is the director of clinical education in speech-language pathology at a private university.  A self-proclaimed enneagram 3, she makes sure to keep her free time full with as many hobbies as possible, including reading, a side photography gig, and journaling. Deeply rooted in her parish community, Monica is passionate about service to the Church and helping others intentionally weave their faith into everyday life.