Mental Illness & Bipolar Disorder

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Quote of the Day – February 22

Try to live content among your reasons for discontent and always honor the inactivity and unknown condition of the Son of God (I:54).  St Vincent de Paul

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Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves--blessed riddance. The one who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.
   - A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God

 

My comment:  I think the above might have been true during and in the aftermath of the French Revolution.  Today I think that in our spirituality we better understand the Mystery of The Cross and suffering in life.  What The Cross has to teach us.  

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"Josefa Navel Girbes is an exceptional mistress of secular holiness: a model of Christian life in her heroic simplicity; a model of parish life. Her entire life proves how one can reach holiness in all states of life in a total consecration to God and in a selfless love for one’s brothers and sisters, even while living in the world. Without extraordinary gifts an exceptional woman in her genuine simplicity as a daughter of the people. She carried out her duties faithfully, in intense union with God, in the midst of the ordinary circumstances of her working day."

A quote from the General Promoter of the Faith, Monsignor Petti, at the conclusion of the Theological Consultors’ examination.

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A very long EBook "Confessions of St Augustine"

 

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Classic Catholic Audiobooks

 

The Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Âme) is the autobiography of Thérèse of Lisieux, a French Discalced Carmelite nun, later recognized as a saint. It was first published on September 30, 1898, a year to the day after her death from tuberculosis at the age of 24, on September 30, 1897. The book was a single volume formed from three distinct manuscripts – manuscripts of different length, written at different times, addressed to different people, and differing from one another in character. The work of unifying these disparate manuscripts was carried out by Pauline, the sister of Thérèse. It was initially published with a limited audience in mind, the Carmelite convents and certain religious personalities, and just 2000 copies of the 475 page book were printed. It quickly became a publishing phenomenon however and Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus was canonised in 1925. Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (French: Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux), born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D., was a Roman Catholic French Discalced Carmelite nun who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known as "The Little Flower of Jesus" or simply "The Little Flower". Thérèse has been a highly influential model of sanctity for Catholics and for others because of the "simplicity and practicality of her approach to the spiritual life". Together with Saint Francis of Assisi, she is one of the most popular saints in the history of the church.[2][3][4] Pope Pius X called her "the greatest saint of modern times". Thérèse felt an early call to religious life, and overcoming various obstacles, in 1888 at the early age of 15, she became a nun and joined two of her elder sisters in the cloistered Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. After nine years as a Carmelite religious, having fulfilled various offices such as sacristan and assistant to the novice mistress, and having spent her last eighteen months in Carmel in a night of faith, she died at aged 24, following a slow and painful fight against tuberculosis. Her feast day is 1 October (3 October in the extraordinary form). Thérèse is well known throughout the world, with the Basilica of Lisieux being the second-largest place of pilgrimage in France after Lourdes.

 

Lengthy EBook "The Story of a Soul" Autobiography of St Therese:

 

 

 

Mystical Life of St Therese of Lisieux (One hour, three minutes)

 

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Is it bipolar disorder or depression HERE

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Mary MacKillop biography podcast (St Mary of The Cross MacKillop) https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/fierce-girls/mary-mackillop-the-girl-who-became-a-saint/11658006

 

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                                      Lent in a nutshell 

                 (from Julian of Norwich (1342-after 1416) - recluse
                         "Revelations of Divine Love", ch. 51-52)

...".......... our good Lord want us willingly to accuse ourselves, and to see truly and know our falling and all the harms which come from it, seeing and knowing that we can never repair it; and also that we willingly and truly see and know the everlasting love which He has for us, and His plentiful mercy. And so by grace to see and know both together is the meek self-accusation which our good Lord asks from us and is His work in our soul."

 

 

 

 

 

Testing The Spirit (Beginning discernment): 

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https://catholicexchange.com/test-every-spirit-how-we-begin-our-path-to-discernment

 

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Unipolar Mania: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201712/the-mysterious-disappearance-unipolar-mania

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Bipolar Disorder :  University of Michigan (Michigan Medicine) Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program.  Video 6:22 minutes on research program https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/prechter-program/about-our-research-program

There are a number of interesting links on the above website.

Living with Bipolar Disorder https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/prechter-program/living-bipolar-disorder

 

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Avowed meaning: stated or admitted https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/avowed

Edited March 4, 2020 by BarbaraTherese

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  Corona Virus - General Information including Symptoms:    https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov         

 

     

  Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference

   National advice on liturgical implications in light of coronavirus (COVID-19)

https://www.catholic.org.au/acbc-media/media-centre/media-releases-new/2258-national-liturgical-advice-on-coronavirus-covid-19/file