What should a Catholic do when they encounter a wellness organization that presents itself as Catholic and yet promotes Eastern meditation techniques, naturopathy, homeopathy, and other New Age modalities? Can a Catholic healthcare provider really have it both ways?
Yearly Archives: 2023
You are my beloved
April 20th
“After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, heaven was opened and the holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.’”
-Luke 3:21 – 22
You are witnesses
April 19th
“Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. And he said to them, ‘Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things. And [behold] I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.’”
-Luke 24:45-49
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Walk as you preach
April 18
“It is no use walking to preach unless we preach as we walk.”
-St. Francis of Assisi
Make progress every day
April 17
“O God, let me know you and love you so that I may find my joy in you; and if I cannot do so fully in this life, let me at least make progress every day, until at last that knowledge, love and joy come to me in all their plentitude.”
-St. Anselm
What the world needs
April 16
“What the world needs is a voice that is right not when the world is right, but a voice that is right when the world is wrong.”
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
If you know how to pray
April 15
“If you have learned how to pray, then I am not afraid for you. If you know how to pray, then you will love prayer – and if you love to pray, then you will pray.”
St. Teresa of Calcutta
Draw near to our Lord
April 14
“Draw near to our Lord, thoroughly aware of your own nothingness, and you may hope all things from His Goodness and Mercy. Never forget that Jesus Christ is no less generous in the Blessed Sacrament than He was during His mortal life on earth.”
-St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier