Lumara’s 5th Annual Cross-Canada Virtual Mother’s Day Candlelighting

Honouring Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Each Mother’s Day, Lumara offers space for quiet reflection, connection, and remembrance. We invite you to join us for our fifth annual Cross-Canada Virtual Candlelighting Service: an evening to honour the enduring bond between mothers and their babies lost in pregnancy or infancy.

This simple and heartfelt gathering will be held online, open to anyone across Canada who would like to light a candle in memory.

Event Details
Date: Sunday, May 11, 2025
Time Zones:
• 8:30 PM Atlantic Time
• 7:30 PM Eastern Time
• 4:30 PM Pacific Time

To register and receive your event link, please contact
shelley@lumarasociety.org by May 10, 2025

This event will be facilitated by Shelley Hermer, MSW, RSW, Lumara’s Canada East Lead. With over 30 years of experience, Shelley creates space where loss is named, love is remembered, and community is gently held.

Together, we’ll light candles and honour the unbreakable love that lives on.

Writing The Love Story

An Online Pregnancy and Infant Loss Therapy Group

For those interested in accessing additional grief supports through Lumara, please reach out to our program staff at 1-866-958-6272 or by email at info@lumarasociety.org. We will be hosting an information session on Tuesday, June 24 4:30 pm PT/7:30 pm ET/8:30 pm AT, about our upcoming Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Group–Writing your Grief.

This six-week online therapy group is for parents–whether you have experienced a very early or late pregnancy loss, or the loss of an infant, your grief matters. If this loss was very recent or decades ago, your grief matters. This group will take place weekly for 6 weeks beginning on June 30th, 4:30pm PT, 7:30pm ET, 8:30pm AT.  Co-facilitated  by an experienced therapist and a peer mentor, participants will have opportunities for connection, reflection, healing and honouring through guided writing exercises. No previous writing experience necessary.