St. Thomas Aquinas

Health Cabinet

We are:

Healthcare-focused parishioners of the St. Thomas campus Catholic Community interested in providing for and contributing to support for health support in our parish.

We strive to meet as a group:

Every second Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm (in the Large Conference Room at St. Thomas).

Our  mission:

"in collaboration with the pastoral staff, we work to enhance the spiritual, physical, emotional, and social well-being of our St. Thomas Aquinas community."

Our purpose:

"To participate in the ongoing transformation of the faith community at St. Tom's as a source of health and healing.

To build and strengthen the capacity of individuals, families, and congregation to understand and care for one another in the light of their relationship to God, our Catholic faith tradition, and the broader societ.

To assist and empower each individual to become a more active partner in management of personal health resources.

To foster new and creative responses to health care concerns."

Ongoing support service projects:

Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry
--hands-on scripture-based team-healing by certified instructors for thos suffering:
emotionally, mentally, spiritually, or physically

Funeral Dinners
--assisting to provide support to grieving families

St. Tom's Health Fair
--education, screening in health care programs

Prayer Blankets
--hand-sewn coverlets for warmth and tactile reassurance to those in situations of great stress

Meals for
Lafayette Urban Ministry
--planning, preparing meals for the homeless in our community