Happy 3rd Anniversary of the launch of St. Therese’s Vision for Disability Giftedness on St. Therese of Lisieux’s feast day itself!. After some prayerful discernment, I have decided to make a YouTube channel and begin making videos (for the ministry and perhaps personally for faith and disability/mental health themes)..
We now have a little testimony from our first Catholic priest, shared with his permission. This priest - Fr. Matthew Schneider, LC - has publicly disclosed that he is autistic.
Over the past year, what I have learned about the discernment of spirits – as taught by St. Ignatius of Loyola – has given me a heavy and joyful heart. I have been reading the book
“The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living” by Fr. Timothy Gallagher, and it is so powerful!
Just 2 years ago, on this day, I released my new ministry: St. Therese’s Vision for Disability Giftedness. By that time, I had fallen in love with a new book on St. Therese’s spirituality by Fr. Michael Gaitley, called 33 Days to Merciful Love. Why did this book speak to me so much? How did it have such a strong effect on me – prompting me to make St. Therese of Lisieux the patron saint of my ministry – anyway?
I was brought up Catholic and went to Sunday Mass, however, I thought God was some big, powerful guy far, far, far off in the sky. As I hit my teenage years, life became very hard...
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André Regnier was born on November 10, 1960 and raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon where he wrestled at the national level with the varsity team and completed his Bachelors of Psychology. While at university, though busy studying and wrestling on the varsity team, he was in search of Christian fellowship.
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For this 1 year anniversary of St. Therese’s Vision for Disability Giftedness, I would like to introduce, with a special film, St. Therese’s older sister: Leonie Martin....
The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise by Cardinal Robert Sarah
What does a book on Silence have to do with helping those of us with various disabilities or mental health issues, or for those of us for whatever reason feel so broken in so many different ways? Why am I giving it such a huge recommendation?
Why is it that so many pray and desperately hope for miracles and their prayers don’t seem to be answered even amidst tremendous anguish and suffering? Why is it that some are miraculously healed...
To read her testimony Click above on "Taylor's Story". Taylor is a devout Catholic Christian, pro-life advocate for human dignity, and gifted university graduate who through her physical disability of cerebral palsy has found continued spiritual vision amongst many challenges! Read about her inspiring testimony on how she discovered that God loved her personally and had an amazing plan for her life! Below you will also find a powerful testimony she did for her pro-life work through Campaign Life Coalition Youth!