Priests Reflect on Personal Experiences of Serious and Terminal Illness

by Jennifer Tann

• Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Published: 2013

Publisher's Description

Priests in their pastoral ministry encounter heart-breaking incidents occurring before what is regarded as a normal life-span: a child with cancer, a road accident, a seriously ill young mother, a bright student struck down. While this may be some preparation, when priests and ministers personally experience serious or terminal illness, they have the additional burden of being in a public role; of needing to manage outward behaviours and inner feelings. They live out the difficult questions which others bring to them, and to which there are no easy answers.