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  VOTE FOR ISSUE 10 (www.helpthatworks.us) Lake County ADAMHS Board YOU.ME.US We're in this together. There is no them. Mental Health is the Top Healthcare Concern of Americans A 2023 Ipsos survey has found that mental health is now the chief health concern among U.S. adults, surpassing the coronavirus, obesity and cancer. The chart shows that 53 percent of U.S. respondents said that they thought mental health was the biggest health problem facing people in their country as of August this year, up from 51 percent in 2022. Where the coronavirus had been considered the biggest health problem by roughly two thirds of U.S. respondents throughout the pandemic, perceptions of the danger of the virus have now dropped to just 15 percent of respondents Majority of Americans Have Struggled with Mental Health Having long been stigmatized as a sign of weakness, mental health problems have become much less of a taboo in recent years.  The pandemic, with its unique set of challenges, accel...

Pope Francis: Second World Day for Elderly

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Pope Francis: Catechesis on Old Age

  Catechesis on Old Age 1. The grace of time and the bond between age and life  Wednesday, 23 February 2022 2. Longevity: symbol and opportunity  Wednesday, 2 March 2022 3.  Old Age, A Resource for Lighthearted Youth  Wednesday, 16 March 2022  4. 4.  Fairwell and inheritance: memory and testimony  Wednesday, 23 March 2022 5.  Fidelity to God’s Visitation for the Next Generation  Wednesday, 30 March 2022 6.  "Honour your father and your mother": love for the gift of life Wednesday, 20 April 2022 7.  Naomi, the alliance between the generations that opens up the future Wednesday, 27 April 2022 8.  Eleazar, consistency of the faith, honourable inheritance  Wednesday, 4 May 2022 9. Judith. Admirable in youth, a generous in old age  Wednesday, 11 May 2022  10.  Job. The trial of faith, the blessing of waiting  Wednesday, 18 May 2022  11. Ecclesiastes: the uncertain night of meaning  and of...

Old Age Is Not a Disease

 Published online by Commonweal on March 3, 2025 Pope Francis's Preferential Option for the Elderly Old age is not a disease,” my mom proclaimed. By this time, she was close to ninety. But age had already long freed her tongue: on reaching eighty she’d informed us, more than once, “I’m old now and I can say what I want. Carmen Nanko-Fernández is professor of Hispanic theology and ministry and director of the Hispanic Theology and Ministry Program at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago .  Pope Francis channeled my mom, speaking out against temptations to pathologize aging: “Many people are afraid of old age. They consider it a sort of disease with which any contact is best avoided.” Second World Day for Grandparents and Elderly "In old age they will still bear fruit" (Psalm 92:15) These words of the Psalmist are glad tidings, a true “gospel” that we can proclaim to all on this second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. They run counter to what the wo...

APAC: OVERVIEW

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  “Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality. If these seeds would take root in my liberty, and if His will grow from my freedom, I would become the love that He is. and my harvest would be His glory and my own joy."  Thomas Merton,  Seeds of Contemplation ,   Photo taken on December 29, 2024 @5:18pm about the time when we discovered the bishop's pastoral letter on the internet. The original post was on December 30, 2024 @ 12:39pm “It’s simply a letter about how we can draw closer to Christ, and there is no controversy in that,” Bishop Malesic said. “Let’s just pray 15 minutes a day; join a small group; invite your Catholic neighbors and friends together to have a cup of coffee and talk about ‘Why are you Catholic?’; ‘How can you become a disciple of Jesus?’ I think these are the basic things.” -from a media interview of the bishop A Flourishing Apostolic Church I inv...

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