With U.S. Catholics in the midst of a National Eucharistic Revival, the call to accompany those with mental illness is stronger than ever, a Catholic mental health counselor and researcher told OSV News.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has issued advisories regarding “alarming increases” in sadness and hopelessness among young people, and on what he called a broad “epidemic of loneliness and isolation.” “St. Paul reminds us … that when one member of the body suffers, all suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all share its joy,” said Hlabse. “That means if a member of my parish community is experiencing mental illness or disability, my flourishing is bound up in theirs.”
She pointed to the “great need to shift that burden so that falls more upon all of us, as people of the body of Christ, so that we can better support those families with children or loved ones who have mental illnesses or disabilities.” She stressed that such initiatives “must not be relegated to ministers or priests” but instead be shared by “the people of God.”
Catholics can extend that same sense of belonging and connection to those they encounter both in the pew and in the wider community –– and fear of those with mental illness and disabilities can be overcome by faith, said Hlabse.
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