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Finding True Blessing Amidst Sorrow
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Finding True Blessing Amidst Sorrow

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by on May 20, 2016 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Evangelization, Featured, Men
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None of us is promised happiness in this life. All of us are guaranteed sorrow. Indeed, sorrow is the classroom where we often learn our most valuable lessons and through which we can climb ever closer to heaven – where we are promised happiness. Perhaps that’s why I am so drawn to praying the Sorrowful Mysteries […]

God Wants You to Get Help
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God Wants You to Get Help

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by on Feb 10, 2016 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Those in Need
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In a recent conversation with a friend, she confided in me she had been suffering for an extended period of time from what she suspected was depression. Her family had requested she see a professional, but she was hesitant. Reprinted with permission from CatholicSistas.com. “At what point do I turn to a doctor and feel […]

A Simple Prayer, A Simple Peace
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A Simple Prayer, A Simple Peace

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by on Jun 03, 2015 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ
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On a retreat some years ago, several of us were spending time in prayer together. Each man in the circle took a turn at sharing with God and the rest of us in the group an intention or request or thought that was weighing on his heart and mind. There was talk of family members […]

Van Gogh: Accomplishment and Mental Illness
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Van Gogh: Accomplishment and Mental Illness

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by on Mar 24, 2015 in Art & Architecture, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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Vincent Van Gogh’s career as a painter began when he was 27 years old and lasted a brief ten years, ending with his suicide. His works are, perhaps, better known than those of any other painter and yet during his lifetime he was virtually unknown. He suffered from mental illness.[1] His mental illness drove his […]

Jesus, If You But Said the Word...
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Jesus, If You But Said the Word…

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by on Feb 17, 2015 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ, Those in Need
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Do you ever want simply to “be better” from something … from any thing? It could be something that ails you, such as cancer or diabetes or endometriosis, heart disease or asthma or some other chronic health condition. It could be an addiction – to smoking or drinking alcohol, drugs or food or pornography. It […]

An Open Discussion About Suicide Might Save Someone's Life
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An Open Discussion About Suicide Might Save Someone’s Life

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by on Sep 25, 2014 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Health & Fitness, Those in Need
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Funny, talented, wealthy, generous, admired people aren’t supposed to want to die. People are supposed to live beyond the age of 63, Robin Williams’ age when he died August 11. People aren’t supposed to die by suicide. Yet, Williams is no different from thousands of other Americans who die that way. More than 39,000 people […]

Including People with Schizophrenia
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Including People with Schizophrenia

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by on Sep 18, 2014 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Health & Fitness, Those in Need
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My wife, LaRee, never knew her maternal grandmother: Her name was Dora and she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Dora was institutionalized in a mental hospital in 1932 at 34 years of age. Eighty-two years ago the shame and stigma of having a family member in a mental institution was so great that few people in the family […]

The Character of Our Culture Defines Our Children
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The Character of Our Culture Defines Our Children

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by on Dec 18, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, On Media, Parenting
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If you have access to the Internet, you likely have read a viral blog post by single mother of four Liza Long titled “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother.” The piece has had millions of hits on the various sites on which it has been published. If you haven’t seen it, check your email. Someone has […]

A Brief Catechesis on Mental Illness and Violence
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A Brief Catechesis on Mental Illness and Violence

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by on Aug 15, 2012 in Catechesis, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, MyChurchParish.com, Resources
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The first written catechism of the Catholic Church, known as the Didache, and dated somewhere in the first century A.D., begins with a sentence of great clarity. It should be memorized: “There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but a great difference between the two ways.” Discussions of the recent mass murders, […]

Catholic but Mentally Ill
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Catholic but Mentally Ill

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by on Aug 04, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com
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I have another reason to count my blessings these days: My sleep rhythms have settled down. I can consistently sleep 9 hours a night and arise refreshed in the morning. Sounds like a pretty small triumph, doesn’t it? But I remember the days not so long ago when I was sleeping twelve hours or more, […]