Resources & Toolkits
A Parish is like a Stained Glass Window
Deacon Tom Lambert
Homily at Mass Celebrating the Lives of Persons with Mental Illness and Families
Deacon Tom Lambert You and I, all of us gathered here today are created in the image and likeness of God. Which means, we all have dignity, we all have value. We all have something to offer to one another. We are in fact a blessing to one another. We are blessed by God and we experience the reality of God’s blessing when we help one another.
Celebrate the Feast of St Dymphna, Patroness of Persons with Mental Illness
Deacon Tom Lambert Today we celebrate the feast of St Dymphna, patroness of people with mental illness. She was buried in Geel Belgium.
How Faith Communities and the Psychiatric Community could Work Together to Promote Recovery
Deacon Tom Lambert This past summer, the American Psychiatric Association invited 30 people from across the country to their headquarters in Washington DC. Half were psychiatrists and half were people involved in ministry to and for people with mental illness and their families. I was privileged to be one of the attendees.
Excerpts From Annual Mass 2014
Deacon Tom Lambert
Excerpts from Homily for Holy Family
Deacon Tom Lambert
One of the Keys to Managing Mental Illness is a Supportive Community
Deacon Tom Lambert People with mental illness and their families need help. And professional help is out there. But it sometimes is hard to take that first step to get help when you’re a person or family going through a crisis, it's tough to do that on your own.
Holy Family
Deacon Ed Shoener, Holy Family, Year C It is the start of the Christmas Season. A Season of Hope. It seems right that we begin the Christmas season with the feast of the Holy Family. We all have great hope for our families. Hope rooted in the desire for the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness.
Divine Mercy Sunday
Deacon Ed Shoener, Divine Mercy Sunday It is always amazing how God speaks to us. Often through the most anonymous and simple people. Sure, God speaks to us through great and prominent people, such as Pope Francis, but more often he speaks to us through the ordinary people and events of our life.
Good Samaritan
Deacon Ed Shoener, Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Experiences to Help us Build up the Kingdom of God
Deacon Ed Shoener, Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, (Mental Illness Mentioned) In today’s readings, we hear from people who encountered God in a miraculous and mystical way and then their lives were forever changed.