The first full week of May marks National Hospice Palliative Care Week in Canada. National Hospice Palliative Care Week is a time to celebrate and share achievements of hospice palliative care throughout the nation. Together, let’s celebrate the amazing care that hospice palliative care teams across Canada provide to our neighbours and families, empowering them to Live in Colour.
This year, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) seeks to engage Canadians to change the conversation around hospice palliative care. Contrary to popular belief, while death and dying are an intimate part of what we do, they are not what hospice palliative care is about. That’s why we are sharing its life-affirming message by celebrating the beauty and the joy that hospice palliative care can provide. The stigma around hospice palliative care is too often a barrier to people who could benefit from it – so let’s change the conversation together.
At the heart of hospice palliative care lies the belief that every person deserves a vibrant and beautiful life, from beginning to end. If you are facing a life-limiting illness, it can feel like your world faded to shades of grey – hospice palliative care brings colour, peace, and joy back to your life in the ways that matter most to you and to your family.
CWL will participate in prayer for the National Hospice Palliative Care Week. We are inviting members and parishioners of our Family of Parishes to participate in a 1 hour prayer service at St. Francis Xavier Church from 12:30-1:30 pm on Wednesday May 4th 2022.
If anyone would like to say a decade of the rosary, the Divine Mercy Chaplet or a prayer during the hour we are there, we would love to have you as one of the speakers. Please let Michelle Rivard know anytime before the prayer service or when you arrive at church.
The first attachment shows the poster for this years National Hospice Palliative Care Week in Canada.
The second attachment is an activity put out by the committee for National Hospice Palliative Care Week in Canada that you might enjoy doing.
*Break out the crayons and markers to add your colours to the Living in Colour colouring page.
*Share how hospice palliative care brought colour to someone’s life.