Health & Spirituality – Page 4

The Beauty of Christian Friendship

Masha Goepel May 21, AD2021 2 Comments

The trees are green again and the days are long. Now that spring has fully arrived and summer is following soon, I can sit in

True Kindness is Love in Action

Mark Belanger May 19, AD2021 3 Comments

Despite what a popular yard sign asserts, kindness is not everything. But kindness is one important form of love in action. From the point of

Memento Mori, Thoughts on Growing Old

Bob Kurland May 14, AD2021 9 Comments

Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the

Covid Anxiety Continues to Imprison Many

Dom Cingoranelli May 5, AD2021 3 Comments

Anxiety continues to imprison many, even with the reopening of much of our country. I recently ran across an acquaintance from my parish in a

Communion, Eucharist, Eucharistic, Blessed sacrament, Mass, EMHCs, Offer it Up

I am an EMHC and Honored to be One

Larry Peterson April 13, AD2021 3 Comments

I am an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion (EMHC). I bring Holy Communion (Christ truly present in the consecrated Host) to Catholics who are homebound,

despair, sadness, mourn, frustration, fear

A Catholic Response to the Mental Health Crisis

Glenn Slaby March 5, AD2021 8 Comments

America, the wealthiest nation on earth, contains what I call a triangle of despair. Mental Illness, incarceration, and poor quality of life creating a vicious

Good for Our Health

Carol Monaco March 2, AD2021 2 Comments

We know that the season of Lent is a time of penance (prayer, fasting, and almsgiving). Truly, these exercises in faith provide much good for

The Healing of Memories

Deacon Steve Greco February 27, AD2021 13 Comments

Jesus tells us repeatedly that we are to live a life of grace, a life of healing, and a life of abundance. Jesus wants to heal

Do It, Do It Right, Do It Right Now

Genesius February 20, AD2021 9 Comments

Will Catholics resume going to again Mass once states lift all the COVID-19 restrictions? Or will the restrictions result in yet another decline in Mass

A Philosophy of Love Following Upon Valentine’s Day

Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer February 17, AD2021 No Comments

In addition to its early Gothic architecture and stunning simplicity, my residence in Fossanova Abbey also boasts the chapel where Saint Thomas Aquinas died. While

frustration, anger, confusion, sadness, alone, depression

Keeping The Faith During Depression

Mark Belanger February 15, AD2021 5 Comments

Everybody gets the blues. But some people really get the blues in the form of depression. For many people depression involves brain chemistry, which means

Is Europe a Cause for Peace and Hope for US Christians?

Paul A. Escott January 16, AD2021 2 Comments

As 2021 begins, much of the planet is looking for hopeful signs of better things to come in the new year while at the same

The Janus of January and the Minerva of Memory

Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer January 16, AD2021 2 Comments

The month of January takes its name from Janus, the two-faced god of beginnings, gates, and doorways. With one face looking ahead and the other

Addiction: Empowerment, Connection, and the Recovery Journey

Dr. Dan L. Edmunds January 15, AD2021 4 Comments

A young man was diagnosed as schizophrenic at the age of 14. He shortly thereafter developed an addiction to heroin. He had been in and

Weep With Those Who Weep

Richard G Evans November 18, AD2020 3 Comments

What does it mean to “weep with those who weep?” Recently, I took a tumble. More than a tumble, really. I was entering my apartment

Addiction with Power is a Deadly Combination

Rob Marco November 7, AD2020 2 Comments

For someone who has never struggled with addiction, it’s hard to understand the depths of shame that accompany it. When it has found a home

If You Truly Want to Follow Christ Learn Patience

Gabriel Garnica October 22, AD2020 5 Comments

I once read that the average person looks at his or her phone roughly 100 times a day. This would be an average between an

Offer It Up With Jesus Crucified: Redemptive Suffering

Dom Cingoranelli October 12, AD2020 6 Comments

“Offer it up.” Feeling concerned, stressed, out of sorts? Offer it up. Are you suffering physical pain? Offer it up. “Offer it up” is advice

order, design, creation, intelligibility

Mental Ilness: Who Am I?

Glenn Slaby September 2, AD2020 4 Comments

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin). Finding the self, soul’s