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Goals To Help You Flourish: Approaching Your New Year’s Resolution
This new year, we invite you to dream! Reflect on where you are, in your spiritual life, with work balance, and with your physical health. This is not a time to cast judgments on yourself or on others, but a time to simply assess. New starts can be very helpful aids...
Encountering Advent as a Pregnant Mother
While we often speak about Advent as awaiting the coming of our Messiah, there is a silent watchfulness and preparation of Mary’s entire being that has the ability to draw us even closer to her son. Mary’s maternal preparation can be easily overlooked in light of the...
The 3 Most Important Questions You Should Be Asking About Your Health Care
Health care and wellness is a multi-trillion dollar industry, spanning from doctor visits and insurance plans all the way to the pharmacy and the grocery store. It touches almost every aspect of our lives, and yet we almost never stop to ask ourselves if we’re really...
Preparing for Thanksgiving in Spirit, Mind, and Body
Thanksgiving, a time of family, friendship, community, and food, is quickly approaching. How can we better prepare this year for this upcoming holiday? How can we prepare our whole person, in spirit, mind, and body for the business and/or stress that it may entail?...
All Saints Day: The Importance of Community
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints. Why do Catholics celebrate the lives of the Saints? Why do we ask for their Intercession? St. Thomas Moore answers these questions saying, “Those in the Catholic Church, whom some rebuke for praying to Saints and going...
Why We Walk As One in Health Care
For most people, modern Health Care is not defined by peace and accompaniment. Rather, health care has become culturally synonymous with the terms overwhelming and isolating. It is baffling how aspects of our lives as intimate as health care and healing, have become...
Autumn Fresh Start + Yummy Recipe
As the holiday season approaches, you may be reminded of some of the resolutions you made last year. Whether your goal was to increase the number of veggies you eat or to eat out less, you might be considering these goals again hoping to be more successful this coming year.
The Abundant Harvest: What Exactly are Whole Grains?
As Summer fades into Autumn, our natural world subtly points us to the phenomenon of harvest and safe keeping. For centuries, man has turned to grains to support the nutritional needs of the entire family. In fact, about 10,000 years ago, wheat was being domesticated...
The Importance of Safeguarding Your Loved Ones Through a Durable Healthcare Power of Attorney or Healthcare Proxy
By Michael Arthur Vacca, Director of Ministry, Bioethics, and Membership Experience Our Lord teaches us to care for our loved ones. Indeed, whatever we do for them, we do to Christ Himself...
Breastfeeding as an Integration of Whole Health
by Becca Wilson In the early pages of Scripture, God is compared to a nursing mother. Isaiah 66 says: “Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her, all you who love her;Rejoice with her in her joy, all you who mourn...
The Worse Pandemic: Narcissism – A Whole Health Crisis
by Mariah Buzza If you frequent internet forums such as Quora and Reddit, you may have noticed that "narcissism" is a popular topic. As indicated by the volume of discussion on "narcissism,” individuals from all sectors of society seem to be acknowledging the...
The Gift of Femininity and St. Mary Magdalene
by Rebecca Wilson The crisis of femininity in our modern world is full of various nuances and deceptions. At least every few weeks, the lack of clarity on what is beautiful about femininity or the beauty of what the female body is made for is further discolored in the...
