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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...
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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 invi...
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APAC; The People of God

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APAC: SERVICE

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APAC: Evangelization

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APAC: The Apostolic Parish

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APAC; Worship

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APAC: Conversion

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APAC: Communal Encounters

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ARAC: MASS AND VESPERS

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AFAC: Servant Leadership

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AFAC: Circle of Friends

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AFAC: UNDERLINES AND SKETCHING

  A Flourishing Apostolic Church “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.”  I invite every Catholic in the Diocese of Cleveland to read this pastoral letter in its entirety, as I have written it with each of you in mind. Make notes and underline your copy of the letter; Consider reading it more than just once. then, meet with some other Catholics who have read this letter and discuss it in a small group. Over the next year I would like this letter to be at the forefront of conversations around the diocese.  OVERVIEW OF LETTER AND POST Underlines Sketches Overview      Part I: The Paschal Mystery We Catholic Christians first...
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AFAC: Fifteen Minutes

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aFAC: Wisdom of the Desert

Can we in the United States, specifically in Lake County, learn anything from the lives of the first Christian hermits who lived in the deserts of the Middle East?  Almost a third of the households in Lake County are single person: 17.1% are female, 14.1% are male.  Can these households develop and share spiritualities that are more appropriate to themselves than to the remaining groups?  Households Persons HOUSEHOLD TYPE # % # % Single Person Female 17580 17.7 17580 7.6% Single Person Male 13905 14 13905 6.0% Married Persons 46086 46.4 Cohabiting Persons 7449 7.5 Female without Spouse 9932 10 Male without Spouse 4370 4.4 TOTAL 99324 ...
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