The Human Condition

Home
United States
Pittsburgh, PA
The Human Condition

A community striving to cultivate hope, healing and conversation through the integration of faith and mental health.

11/01/2022

Happy Solemnity of All Saints! May the witness & example of the communion of saints inspire us all in our own lives to be great saints. We were made for heaven friends, let’s be saints.

09/29/2022

Last week I was honored to speak at a local young adult / grad student kick off event that focused on the topic of navigating mental health as a Catholic. As a fresh mom myself, it was refreshing to touch upon so much of what I’ve been experiencing these past 5 months when it comes to my own mental health & faith life.

It has been quite the balancing act learning how to juggle running this organization & motherhood so it felt great to get back into speaking! If you or a group you belong to are looking for a speaker for your event on the topics of faith, & mental health or mental illness, DM or email us for all inquiries!

05/05/2022

May is mental health awareness month but what actually is mental health? We all have “mental health” & in order to live a well-balanced & integrated life, it’s something we need to prioritize & talk about.

Mental health doesn’t mean the presence or lack there of a mental illness. It simply relates to the everyday, healthy regulation of our thoughts, feelings & behaviors. We are made mind, body & spirit & each three of these components need to be “healthy” in order for us to thrive.

We don’t need a mental diagnosis or severe disorder to start caring about our mental health. But we have to start having conversations about the importance of our mental health to begin encouraging others to take it seriously! We can’t support our physical or spiritual health if we are suppressing or ignoring or mental health.

05/02/2022

A litany of peace for you in this month of May, Mental Health Awareness Month & the month dedicated to Our Lady.

Our lady of Mental Peace, pray for us! 🕊

04/29/2022

If Jesus never endured his suffering on the cross, the Church would have never been born.

What new life does Christ want to bring forth from your sufferings? What glory does he wish to reveal from your pain? Our suffering shouldn’t be wasted.

Photo by .jernberg

04/19/2022

The main objective in mind when creating this organization 2 years ago was to help people understand that their suffering or the suffering in others, particularly mental suffering, does not disqualify them from holiness. But rather that suffering can be used as vehicle of Grace in the journey towards sainthood if we allow it to, through seeking genuine healing & authentic integration of psychology & our Catholic faith.

I hope that over the past 2 years, The Human Condition has provided some of you that hope & consolation that you are welcome & needed in the Body of Christ. That your story matters. That mental illness does not disqualify you. That you were still made to be a saint.

While starting a non-profit & figuring out what this organization is being called to become by the Holy Spirit, I’m grateful that my own story of suffering has led me here. I am still very much a work in progress & I know that The Human Condition will continue to grow & serve the church in whatever capacity the Lord desires.

Our patrons Saint Oscar Romero & SOG Dorothy Day, pray for us!

04/16/2022

This reflection from an ancient holy Saturday homily is long but well worth your time today on which the day seems so empty.

“Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.

He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him, Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying:

“Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

“I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now by my own authority command all who are held in bo***ge to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise.

“I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated. For your sake I, your God, became your son; I, the Lord, took the form of a slave; I, whose home is above the heavens, descended to the earth and beneath the earth.

“For your sake, for the sake of man, I became like a man without help, free among the dead. For the sake of you, who left a garden, I was betrayed to the Jews in a garden, and I was crucified in a garden. (Continued in comments)

04/15/2022

How often have we cried out these own words in the midst of our pain & suffering? How many times have we forgotten that like Christ’s death on the cross, our suffering isn’t meaningless, it is redemptive. May we be with our Lord on the cross today & unite to him all the pain in our own life.

“He surrendered everything, including his body, for love of us. He emptied himself. The great question that stands before us on Good Friday is: are we going to empty ourselves in response to his emptiness? The moment we do we shall know the joy of Christ. Notwithstanding the pain, the cross, the tomb, if I empty myself because I am in love with God, I shall know joy.” -Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty

04/14/2022

He loved His. Own.
He knelt down to the ground to wash the feet of his own. Of his friends. You and me. He has invited us to his table to partake in what he offers only those who accept it- himself.

In all our brokenness & human frailty, Jesus invites us to join him at the table tonight. The apostles weren’t the holiest men in town, they had their own stories & faults & baggage, as do we. Yet the Savior of the World invites them & us to be his friends, to break bread with us, to wash us, and to eventually die for us. We don’t have to earn it, we have to accept it.

If you’ve ever felt unworthy to sit at Jesus’ table, to accept what he willingly offers to you, to believe that you are worth loving to the end, I invite you to read todays Gospel & pray with the scene of the Last Supper. You are worthy of what Jesus has come to do for you, but will you accept it? Will you let him wash your feet? Will you partake in the great meal of his body that he has prepared for you?

04/11/2022

Friends, this week above all weeks we are invited to enter into the depths of our sufferings & unite them to Christ on the cross. We are invited to suffer beside him, to weep with him, and to die alongside him. There is no other way we can truly rejoice on Easter Sunday if we do not enter into the reality of this week.

Holy week is a profoundly sacred time where we can experience great intimacy with Christ if we allow ourselves to. How are you entering into this week in a deeper way than the rest of Lent? How do you plan on journeying alongside Christ to Calvary? How will you bring your sufferings to him on the cross?

You are all in my prayers during this Holy Week. May it be truly transformative & healing.

04/08/2022

It’s the last Friday in Lent before Good Friday & the one piece of advice or suggestion I can offer you is to go to confession. Whether it’s been a couple weeks or a couple years, I urge you to go to the sacrament of reconciliation before Easter Sunday. It is the best thing you can do this Lent & will make for an even more joyful Easter.

I have heard several priests say that a good confession is more powerful than an exorcism. It literally casts out the darkness within our souls when we bring our faults to the light & to the Lord in this sacrament. It’s more fruitful than a good therapy session or vent session with a friend. It is simply not enough to just confess our sins privately to God on our own, as I so often hear people say they do. Jesus has left us with physical sacraments for a reason, let us run to them.

📷

03/25/2022

“By her fiat, then, Mary became voluntarily the Mother of the Redeemer. Tradition recognizes that Mary consented to be Mother of the Redeemer in his redemptive role by calling her the New Eve. The first Eve, by consenting to temptation, led the first man to commit the sin which lost original justice for mankind. Mary is the New Eve by her consent to be the Mother of the Redeemer for the sake of the work of redemption. Mary’s association with Jesus in the redemption is therefore not like that of the apostles, but is something still more intimate.”
Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, o.p.

Mary deeply cares about our redemption. She cares about our healing & desires it so that we may grow in deep intimacy with her son.

May we call upon the intercession of the Mother of the Redeemer today on the Solemnity of the Annunciation to ask for her aid in our own redemption & healing.

Address

Pittsburgh, PA
15217

Website

https://www.thehumanconditioncommunity.org/donate

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Human Condition posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organization

Send a message to The Human Condition:

Shortcuts

Featured

The TBCK Foundation

Want your organization to be the top-listed Non Profit Organization in Pittsburgh?