October 10 – World Mental Health Day

October 10th is World Mental Health Day.  The USCCB has created a Novena for Mental Health as an opportunity for all of us to join together in prayer for the men and women experiencing or impacted by mental health issues and those who walk that journey with them.   Please consider joining me in praying this novena for our brothers and sisters in Christ.

“The entire Church in the United States is especially encouraged to pray this Novena in solidarity with one another from October 10 to October 18 each year. October 10 is a fitting beginning as it is also World Mental Health Day. It is a time when people around the world are seeking to raise awareness and remove the stigma connected to mental health issues. This nationwide annual moment of prayer fittingly concludes on the feast of Saint Luke, patron of health care, on October 18.”

Click here to learn more and to gain access to the Novena.  https://www.usccb.org/mental-health-novena

Grace Tibbetts, Safe Environment Coordinator for the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls