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A Healthy Trinity: Nurturing Soul, Mind and Body Together, by Joseph Pearce – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Eugène Burnand, “Peter and John Run to the Empty Tomb,” 1898 (photo: Public Domain)

By Joseph Pearce, Catholic Exchange, 

Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of more than 30 books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. His personal website is jpearce.co.

 

Healthiness can lead to the wholeness that is holiness.

Joseph PearceLooking after our health is important and looking after our spiritual health is the most important thing of all. Since this is so, the neglect of our health, especially our spiritual health, is perilous to our well-being in this life and the next.

Each of us has our own way of trying to stay healthy. Speaking personally, I try to live my daily life in accordance with what I call a healthy trinity. This involves finding adequate time each day for spiritual exercise, intellectual exercise and physical exercise. The first is the most important but it is served by the other two to such a degree that, for me at least, they have become interwoven and inseparable. ….