Our Mission: Reading the Bible from the Heart of the Church
The St. Paul Center is a nonprofit research and educational institute that promotes life-transforming Scripture study from the heart of the Church. The Center serves clergy and laity, students and scholars, with research and study tools— from books and publications to multimedia and online programming.
Our goal is to be a teacher of teachers. We want to raise up a new generation of priests who are fluent in the Bible and lay people who are biblically literate. For us, this means more than helping people to know their way around the Bible. It means equipping them to enter into the heart of the living Word of God and to be transformed and renewed by this encounter.
We read the Bible from the heart of the Church, in light of the Church’s Liturgy and living Tradition. In this way, we hope to help people experience the heart-to-heart encounter that Jesus’ disciples experienced on that first Easter night, when they knew Him in the breaking of the bread: "Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked to us…while He opened to us the Scriptures?" (see Luke 24:13-37)
Welcome to the Pastoral Solutions Institute
whether you want to create a more intimate and godly marriage, celebrate more faithful and fulfilling family life, or discover the path to a more grace-filled personal life, the Catholic Counselors at Pastoral Solutions Institute can help strengthen and support you on your spiritual and emotional journey!
Take our quizzes to discover important information about your life and relationships. Read excerpts of our popular books and discover our dynamic audio-recordings, designed to help you achieve both greater peace of mind and greater peace in your home. For more personal guidance, check-out our effective telephone counseling practice, enabling you to connect with faithful, effective counseling resources from the comfort of your home.
For daily encouragement in your Christian walk, be sure to tune-in to More2Life Radio, our call-in radio program airing daily, M-F at 10 am Eastern/9 am Central (click the following links for a show description, list of stations, access to our online simulcast, and podcast), and don’t forget to check out our psychology and religion blog, Faith on the Couch where you can discover how to enrich your life and relationships with cutting-edge psychological insights and the timeless wisdom of our Catholic faith!
We hope you enjoy your visit to Pastoral Solutions Institute and CatholicCounselors.com. Come back often, and don’t hesitate to let us know how we can assist you better.
Choose Joy!
Discover the joy you long for! Damon Owens has created a new 4-part teaching series on the background and foundational topics of the ministry and presents the case for why we can, and should, Choose Joy. Watch “Created For Joy”, the first episode in Damon’s new teaching series.
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Phone/Fax: 1-484-249-0909
General Mission Goals of the USCCB
The Gospel of Christ and the teachings of his Church guide the work of the USCCB. The work of the Conference is rooted in three general mission goals and organized into three key areas of responsibility.
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To act collaboratively and consistently on vital issues confronting the Church and societyTo foster communion with the Church in other nations, within the Church universal, under the leadership of its supreme pastor, the Roman Pontiff
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To offer appropriate assistance to each bishop in fulfilling his particular ministry in the local Church
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
The Ruth Institute is a global non-profit organization equipping Christians to defend the family and build a civilization of love.
Founded by world-renowned author, speaker, and academic Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, the Ruth Institute’s Resource Center provides decades of research and educational tools to support individuals and families harmed by divorce, the hook-up culture, and other forms of family breakdown.
The Ruth Institute believes that:
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Every person has the right to know his or her cultural heritage and genetic identity.
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Every child has a right to a relationship with their natural mother and father except for an unavoidable tragedy.
The Ruth Institute rejects the idea that a child is a problem to solve if you don’t want one and an object to purchase if you do want one.
The Ruth Institute has a dream that every child be welcomed into life in a loving home with their own mother and father, married to each other.
The Ruth Institute upholds the ancient Christian teachings about marriage, family, and human sexuality. These teachings are today sometimes regarded as exclusively “Catholic.” But in fact, Judaism, and most Christian groups, historically taught many of the same things. The Ruth Institute works with individuals and groups, religious or otherwise, who share our views, in whole or in part, regardless of their positions on other issues.
What is a Retrouvaille Program?
The word Retrouvaille™ (pronounced re-tro-vi with a long i.) is a French word meaning rediscovery. The program offers tools needed to rediscover a loving marriage relationship. Thousands of couples headed for cold, unloving relationships or divorce have successfully overcome their marriage problems by attending the program.
The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.
Springfield chapter
Bill Allen
413-543-4185
www.allswell27 AT msn DOT.com
(Indian Orchard, Springfield)
Mission Statement
In recognition of the fact that each human life is part of a continuum from conception to natural death, the mission of Massachusetts Citizens For Life, Inc. is to promote respect for human life and defend the right to life of all human beings, born and pre-born. We will influence public policy at the local, state and national levels through comprehensive educational, legislative, political and charitable activities.
Priests for Life has come to signify two distinct but related movements within the wider pro-life movement.
On one level, as described below, Priests for Life refers to a very specific effort to galvanize the clergy to preach, teach, and mobilize their people more effectively in the effort to end abortion and euthanasia.
On another level, Priests for Life represents a family of ministries that reach and enrich every aspect of the pro-life movement, for clergy and laity alike, in a wide variety of activities. This has come to pass precisely because priests are not ordained for themselves, but for the people.So in activating clergy, we are activating all the segments of the Church, the pro-life movement, and the wider society in the defense of life.
The CatholicPsych Institute was formed to answer the great need of today’s Catholics. Catholics need psychology that is consistent with the truth and dignity of the human person. Secular psychology does not offer that consistency; it tries to treat the person without understanding the person. That’s like shooting arrows in the dark! Catholic Psychology turns on the lights, and the CatholicPsych Institute provides resources and services that hit the mark.
Mission
The mission of The Gray House is “To help its neighbors facing hardships to meet their immediate and transitional needs by providing food, clothing and educational services in a safe, positive environment in the North End of Springfield.”
What is Rachel's Vineyard?
Rachel's Vineyard weekends for healing after abortion are offered throughout the year in locations across the United States and Canada, with additional sites around the world. Rachel’s Vineyard is a ministry of Priests for Life.
The program is an opportunity to examine your abortion experience, identify the ways that the loss has impacted you in the past and present, and helps to acknowledge any unresolved feelings that many individuals struggle with after abortion. Because of the emotional numbness and secrecy that often surrounds an abortion experience, conflicting emotions both during and after the event may remain unresolved. These buried feelings can surface later and may be symptoms of post abortion trauma.
Married couples, mothers, fathers, grandparents and siblings of aborted children, as well as persons who have been involved in the abortion industry have come to Rachel's Vineyard in search of peace and inner healing. The weekend is a lot of work but yields a fruitful harvest for all who are willing to labor there.
We're a campus outreach that pursues college students with intentionality and love. We invite them into a growing relationship with Jesus and the Catholic faith, inspiring and equipping them for a lifetime of Christ-centered evangelization, discipleship and friendships in which they lead others to do the same.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Companions of Christ is a private association of diocesan clerics whose members seek to live obedience, chastity, and poverty as they reside and minister in their diocese.
HISTORY
The Denver Companions of Christ were established December 12, 2007 in the Archdiocese of Denver. In their life, the Companions of Christ have three emphases: observance of the evangelical counsels within the context of their ordained ministry; commitment to a common life of prayer and fraternity; and a dedication to the "new evangelization" including catechesis, spiritual renewal, and the fostering of vocations in the local Church. This life is done through formation within in the Companions of Christ and the living of a life in agreement with the Ideals of the Companions of Christ.
The Maronite Monks of Adoration
A Catholic community of contemplative monks dedicated to a life of prayer and Eucharistic Adoration.
The Maronite Monks of Most Holy Trinity Monastery are a Catholic community of contemplative monks dedicated to a life of prayer and Eucharistic Adoration—a life of religious reparation and penance for souls—that is, for our brothers and sisters in the world, especially those in most need of our prayers. We are a cloistered, contemplative community in which there is an harmonious fusion of cenobitic and eremitical living. This life of adoration and penance overflows to others by making possible to all God’s People in the local community