Should Health Be the #1 Priority for Catholics?
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic and so many other life-altering events taking place in our world, Dr. Sri poses a question that is very important for Catholics to consider: Should physical health be our first priority? Drawing from the Saints and from Church doctrine, this episode reminds us that while physical death is inevitable for all of us, what comes after death is determined by how we prioritize here on earth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:07.0 | As things are starting to reopen around the country, around the world, people are starting to go back to work, they're starting to socialize again, some are even going back to church and receiving the eucharist again. There's a lot of |
| 0:24.3 | going back to church and receiving the eucharist again. |
| 0:23.9 | There's a lot of questions about how best to proceed. |
| 0:26.7 | And I want to raise an important Catholic question |
| 0:30.5 | as we're trying to sort out all of this |
| 0:32.4 | and try to navigate how we move ahead with this |
| 0:34.9 | reopening. I want to ask an important Catholic question and I don't mean for it to be |
| 0:40.8 | controversial in any way but I think it will be controversial because we live in a very secular age that doesn't tend to ask these kind of Catholic questions but because all of you your faith is so important to you I want to really encourage you in this. I think |
| 0:53.4 | is important that we think about this together. And here's my question. Should health be our number |
| 0:59.2 | one priority? As things are starting to reopen and we're trying to think about what's the best way to proceed. |
| 1:04.8 | Should your health and your safety be the number one consideration? |
| 1:09.6 | Should that really be the case? Now I want to be clear I'm not trying to enter into the debate about the shutdown should we have done all this or what are the best strategies for reopening I'm really not interested in I mean I personally, but not for this episode. |
| 1:23.0 | I just want to throw out a very important Catholic principle for us to think about that in my own personal life, |
| 1:29.4 | should I be thinking about health is the number one thing? |
| 1:32.4 | And what happens if I do that? |
| 1:33.8 | What happens to my family life? |
| 1:35.2 | What happens to my interaction with others? |
| 1:37.4 | What happens in my parish? |
| 1:38.9 | What happens in my community? |
| 1:40.8 | If I view health as the number one thing that I need to go after here. |
| 1:47.0 | You know, from a Christian perspective, health of course is a good, it's a great good. We might even say it's one of the priorities in life, you know, I think |
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