Health & Spirituality – Page 5

Memento Mori, Thoughts on Growing Old, Redux

Bob Kurland May 8, AD2020 4 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

pray, prayer, praying, fall, fallen, conscience, humility

The Calix Society:
12-Step Catholic Synergy

Guest Contributor May 6, AD2020 4 Comments

CALIX SOCIETY CREDO “Calix is an association of Catholic alcoholics, drug addicts, and family members and friends affected by addiction, who are maintaining their sobriety through

Hope When Hope Seems Gone—Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

Patrick Coffin May 3, AD2020 No Comments

Ours is an age of social disruption, isolation, and atomization. Rates of suicide among young people, rich and poor, along with instances of clinical depression

Jesus, I Trust In You–A Time for Divine Mercy

Dom Cingoranelli April 18, AD2020 2 Comments

You’ve probably seen the inscription, “Jesus, I trust in You” at the bottom of the Divine Mercy Image. Jesus specifically asked for this to be

Prayer: For Such a Time As This

Janet Meyer April 15, AD2020 No Comments

But save us by thy hand, and help me, who am alone and have no helper but thee, O Lord (Esther 4:14). My dad spent

The Coronavirus: What If Health Was Not the #1 Priority?

Julie Machado April 14, AD2020 8 Comments

Here in Portugal, it is common to say to a pregnant woman, “As long as the baby is healthy… that is most important.” What if

Coronavirus and the Necessity of the Mass—UPDATED

Anthony S. Layne March 17, AD2020 6 Comments

As with so many other things, so with coronavirus: You can trust Catholics to turn it into an intramural spiritual battle. I don’t have statistics

Jesus, Wine and the Temperance Movement

Daniel Demers January 18, AD2020 1 Comment

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.—Ecclesiastes 9:7 (KJV) THE

shame, the here and now, troubled waters, transhumanism, good works not automatic, strive

Beating the Demon of Pornography

Rob Marco December 28, AD2019 4 Comments

Recently I started an accountability group for a small number of men struggling with the scourge of pornography. These are good Catholic men attempting to

The Virtue of Hope as Diving into the Mercy of God

Jim Dougherty November 26, AD2019 No Comments

Like every virtue, hope is a grace and also a habit, but unique to hope is that its practice may be described as diving into

The 12 Step Catholic:
A Friend of Bill W Tells His Story

Guest Contributor November 8, AD2019 3 Comments

Sought through prayers and meditation to Improve our conscious contact with God, as we understand Him, praying only for the knowledge of His will for

Growing in Wisdom With St. John of the Cross

Father Nicholas Blackwell O. Carm. October 3, AD2019 2 Comments

I am in a moment of transition. I am preparing to return to active ministry in the Bronx at our Carmelite Parish there, but I

Personal Remembrances of St. John Paul II

Tom Collingwood September 17, AD2019 4 Comments

October 22 is the feast day for St. John Paul II who is a very special saint for me. There is a personal connection to

Living Longer with God

Daniel Demers August 12, AD2019 1 Comment

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.—Corinthians 15:53 Noah’s Living Longer Story Imagine a hip,

Praying Through Stress

Richard Van Kirk August 11, AD2019 1 Comment

August is a great time to assess one’s stress levels. In every walk of life, people find summer to be unreasonably hectic. In the early

God Is in Control: Letting Go of What Isn’t Ours

Suellen Brewster June 27, AD2019 19 Comments

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. (Matthew 6:8b) In this Gospel passage Jesus speaks to us of the Father’s omniscience, His

causality, miracle, creation, God, morality, man

On Being and Becoming Human

Marty Dybicz April 2, AD2019 3 Comments

Human experimentation is being widely conducted today both in the narrow, scientific sense, such as in the CRISPR gene editing program, and in the broader,