CROWNING WITH THORNS

Loving through Illness: Mental Illness and the Beauty of Suffering - Homiletic & Pastoral Review (October 2025) Suffering Through Mental Illness with God's Love - Catholic Stand - (November 2025) Why do some speak so strongly against mental illness and those who suffer with it? With mental illness as common today as many other illnesses of the body, one questions why there is a negative stigma connected to illnesses of the mind. One's brain is simply another part of the hum

"And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God , in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation : And hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall reign on the earth" (Revelation 5:9-10, RHE). "And Peter opening his mouth, said: in very deed I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons. But in every nation , he that fearet