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Introducing the Catholic Healthcare Guild
In January of this year, the Catholic Physician's Guild became the Catholic Healthcare Guild of Central Texas! We are thrilled to announce our new name and refocused mission! Our first meeting which will include board elections and a discussion around "Your Call to Healthcare... Connecting Spirituality and Work" will be held June 5th, 5:30 p.m., Clinical Education Center Room C1.110 . For more information or to RSVP, contact CatholicHCGuild@gmail.com
Spirituality
Our Chosen Names
For those who experienced the Easter Vigil last month, you couldn't help but notice the Litany of Saints. Reading the list, I wondered how these particular saints were chosen. Was it their unique gifts or simply their prominence in the Easter tradition? At the moment of confirmation, I had my answer when I realized these were the chosen names of the newest members of our Church family.Education
What's in a name?
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." —Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
As Juliet laments her disastrous fate, she asks if a rose called by any other name would cease to be a rose. Certainly a rose would be just as beautiful if a new word was chosen to designate it from other flowers. Thus, we have to ask, how important is a name?
Service
Called by Name
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work… Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. – 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 12
As the Catholic Healthcare Guild, we hope to affect a new sense of cooperation between the various specialties that comprise the health care system.
Service Opportunities
Feed My Sheep: Annie's Way
A tradition of feeding the homeless and homebound on Thanksgiving Day
Austin Diocese Medical Mission
Dedicated to providing healthcare to poverty stricken people in Mexico and in Central and South America.
Christian Medical Missions, Inc
Providing Medical, Dental & Eye Care to the indigenous people of Central America.
Sacred Heart Community Clinic
Primary care medical clinic, serving children and adults, located at St. William Church, Round Rock.
Call for Vignettes
The journal Christian Bioethics is seeking a series of narrative vignettes from practitioners as well as patients describing their trials within a health care setting.
News
Exploring Seton's heritage of service to the poor
About 40 employees of Seton Healthcare Family boarded a bus on June 17th to take a pilgrimage back in time.
“The vocation of the physician is a calling by God. From the sacredness of the medical profession springs the Hippocratic Oath... This is not an oath made to a patient; it is an oath addressed directly to God.”
—Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan for JPII, CMA annual meeting, 2000
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To join the national Catholic Medical Association, please visit the CMA website.