His battles with mental illness and addiction I think have, he’s a little Zach Weissmueller: Bit Kanye reputation now. Yeah, unfortunately, all this drama around him has created, it’s hard to put people in a neutral mindset, but I would like to just ask our audience to put some of...
She is the patron saint of mental disorders, runaways, victims of incest, neurological disorders, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, anxiety, depression, loneliness, emotional and mental illness. However, before you start to wonder if you are depressed or have a mental illness, first look ...
Sometimes what The Church puts forward as necessary to our spiritual life is for a sufferer of mental illness a sort of highest peak of a Mount Everest to climb, it can be an impossible quest. Sometimes for a sufferer going through a difficult patch, the best one can do is that which S...
Portugal.—I. GEOGRAPHY AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.—Portugal is situated on the west of the Iberian Peninsula, being bounded on the north and east by Spain and...
Saint Dymphna is the patron saint of emotional disorders, depression, mental illness, nervous turmoil, and a host of other problems. Surely this little-known Irish princess is a saint for our times. But she doesn’t need to remain little-known. For the first time ever, the story of her ...
St. Mark Ji Tianxiang, patron saint of drug addicts? Posted onOctober 15, 2022 St. Mark Ji Tianxiang was born in Hebei, China on 1834 into a Catholic family where he was raised in the Faith. He was a doctor, and in his early thirties he suffered from a stomach ailment for which he...
This is a follow up post to Monday’s one ofSt. Jude Thaddeus, Apostle and patron saint of alcoholics and addicts. As I mentioned in that post, I became enamored with St. Jude when I read several prayer cards of his. They gave me the idea of recruiting him to be a patron of alcoh...
am unclear on the idea of a patron saint or a saint representing a specific need. It appears to be superstitious, but based on what I have discovered in my limited explorations of Catholicism, I know that this cannot be the case. Why travel to see the relics of saints or their shrines...
AN OASIS OF GRACES! THE FIVE FIRST SATURDAYS IS A DEVOTION NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER! FIND OUT MOREHERE THE SAINT MICHAEL PRAYERANDTHE ROSARY ARE ALSO POWERFUL PRAYERS TO HELP US THROUGH THESE VERY TURBULENT TIMES! FATHER CHAD RIPPERGER HAS RELEASED A PRAYER FOR THE CONSECRATION OF THOSE GOVE...
of all those who fail to live this commandment because of their selfish desires for what makes them feel good, or what fits their schedule, over the needs of others. I think it’s a rare saint that can live this virtue one hundred percent of the time. Even the best of us are a ...