Webinar helps 120 young adults find health, growth during COVID isolation
Leading the Feb. 11 webinar Finding God During Times of Isolation and Solitude is Matt Davis (upper left), director of the archdiocesan Office of Ministry With Young Adults. Also presenting were (clockwise from left) Dr. James Coupe, Father Stephen DeLacy, Dr. Patricia Donohue and Ann Menna.
By Maria Pisano • Posted February 19, 2021
With young adults facing unprecedented levels of isolation from their peers, family, work and church, a webinar with Q&A on Feb. 11 helped young people gain skills for psychological coping and spiritual growth during the coronavirus pandemic.
More than 70 young adults participated virtually and 120 registered to receive a recording of the event, titled “Finding God During Times of Isolation and Solitude.” They discussed various challenges and healthy ways to respond, and also discovered how times of isolation can be an opportunity to grow spiritually.
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By Gina Christian • Posted December 22, 2020
A Christmas season amid COVID can make recovery from addiction even more challenging – but not impossible, said local experts.
For those wrestling with substance abuse, memories of “past holidays have always included a drug of choice, alcohol or compulsive eating, and that has become an integral part of the holiday,” said permanent Deacon Dan Giblin, a certified recovery specialist and full-time spiritual advisor at the St. John Vianney Center.
Located in Downingtown, the facility provides behavioral counseling and addictive disease treatment for clergy and religious nationwide.
Even absent a pandemic, the holidays tend to enhance an individual’s mood of the moment, said Deacon Giblin, citing an observation made by his pastor, Father John Newns of St. Ann Parish in Phoenixville.