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The programmes include celebration of Health and Healing Week in the parishes, educational and other institutions, and health-care institutions, with prayer services for each day, constitution of a health promotion committees in each parish and institution, celebration at Parish of Loutolim, with a visit to Shanti Avedana Ashram, a session in the parish church on the importance of health ministry and the Eucharistic celebration in the chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes.
The celebrations will be confined to the week from Monday, 6th February to Sunday 12th February 2012 which includes World Day of Sick: Saturday, 11th February & Health Sunday: 12th February 2012.
In a statement released jointly by Caritas and CSJP, the Church has called for “reaching out to those with mental illnesses and those caught in the web of different types of addictions which entails understanding and facing complex challenges, primarily of touching the addict in love and concern and making him/her feel that you want to be a companion in his/her struggle to recover from the malady and be restored to holistic health and rehabilitation.”
“If we human persons need to enjoy holistic health we must realise that the fundamental elements comprise clean air, water and food, decontaminated in entirety. However, everyone’s experience today is to the contrary. To protect, preserve and promote a healthy environment and ecology, all members of society must make a firm concerted effort with ‘action plans’ to meet specific needs in the given area. This is not a favour to others but a necessity for the healthy preservation of self in harmony with others,” the statement further said calling for care for the environment as well.
