When we suffer, we try to make sense of our experience. What we know about God from the Bible might be different than what our culture tells us about what God is like. What our culture tells us may come to mind and cause us to doubt God’s love for us.
God still loves us. Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death? As the Scripture says, “For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the future, neither the world above nor the world below—there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.

“Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord”. (Romans 8:35–39)

Healing the Children’s wounds of trauma Initial Equipping programme, Ave Maria Convent, Negombo

21 teachers of the Ave Maria Convent gathered with great enthusiasm to attend the above programme today. Rev. Fr.Claude N . Nonis & Mrs. Pathmaseelie Gunetilake , Master Facilitator of Children’s Wounds of Trauma, Rev. Fr. Lester C. Wijesooriya and Rev.Sr. Mebal Rodrigo ,Training Facilitators of Children’s Wounds of Trauma started the training programme . This programme will be held from 29th to 31st of May 2019. This training programme is specially designed for the teachers who belong to the Katuawapitiya Parish (Church which was attacked on the Easter Sunday). 8 students of this Convent were killed in this attack and some of the student’s parents also lost their lives. Main purpose of this programme is to strengthen those teachers to help the students to overcome from their traumatic situation.
The Ceylon Bible Society provided all the materials and Holy Bibles were gifted to the teachers at the commencing of this programme.