Health and Wellness

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Praying through Pain

When you pray, mental and physical changes occur that help you cope with pain.

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A Meditation on Healing

Not long ago, I fell in a state park while hiking with friends.
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Notes from a Friar: Pope John Paul II and Suffering

Throughout the last years of his papacy, Pope John Paul II relied on God to endure his failing health.
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You and Your Health: The Gift of Giving

A life event can alter a person’s gift philosophy. It reminds me of the “readiness concept.”
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You and Your Health: God Bless Parish Nurses!

Parish nurses take their ministry seriously. They blend health with spirituality. And that’s faithful medicine!
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You and Your Health: ‘Blessed Be the Middle’

There can be no extraordinary feasts like Easter or Christmas—or a good diagnosis—without our work of Ordinary Time. Blessed be the middle!
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You and Your Health: ‘You Visited Me’

Christ said, “[I was] naked, and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me” (Mt 25:36). We need to visit the sick.
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