The Institute for Family Health and Well-Being
The Institute for Family Health and Well-being (IFHWB) was created in 2009 to encourage and support Catholic schools and families, individuals, and couples to live fulfilling, enriching, and virtuous lives. The mission statement of IFHWB is:
"Helping you navigate the challenges of life and embrace the joy of living."
IFHWB helps Catholic schools and families, individuals, couples, and organizations align with the principles of living a virtuous life. This is a life consistent with the virtues identified by Aristotle and integrated into St. Paul's writings. The four Cardinal Virtues are prudence, or practical wisdom; temperance, or self-control; fortitude, or courage; and justice, or doing the right and good thing.
Catholic Schools and Catholic families are perfectly situated to live a virtuous life:
Living a virtuous life is a decision - it does not happen by accident. Choosing to align their lives with the teachings of Jesus Christ, as well as the Teachings and Traditions of the Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Catholic Families, and Catholic Homeschool families are in a unique position to influence the culture in a positive, holy, and virtuous way.
These groups are called to dialogue with the culture and to integrate their faith as they influence the culture around them. They must trust the Holy Spirit is calling them to this noble work at this moment in history. We are not living in this time by accident. Trust that you have a mission to accomplish and ask for the grace and guidance of the Holy Spirit to equip you for the work He has in store for you!
The concepts below help you and your family live a virtuous life:
1.) Living a virtuous life helps us feel good about our decisions and actions every day.
2.) The virtuous life is our pathway to heaven.
3.) We must stand firmly for what you know is right and good.
4.) We must teach virtuous living to our children and adolescents through being a good role model and example of virtuous living.
5.) A virtuous school and family encourages the children and adolescents to make good, moral, ethical, virtuous decisions.
6.) The qualities of a virtuous administrator, teacher, staff member, father or mother demonstrate the Cardinal and Theological virtues, which are actively chosen each day. These virtues become habits for them and help form their character.
7.) A virtuous child or adolescent understands the importance of making the right and good decisions they face each day.
9.) A virtuous child or adolescent is growing in holiness and virtue each day, through the examples adults set for them.
10.) We must all help create a virtuous world!!
If you are unsure of how to become a virtuous person, parent, or grandparent, purchase a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and begin reading it.
You may also choose to listen to Fr. Mike Schmitz's podcast "Catechism in a Year."
Don't be afraid to become a virtuous, religious person, school, and family!!
Integrating Catholic Thought Throughout the Curriculum (ICTTC)
Catholic School Curriculum!
Making good moral decisions is difficult for all people, but especially for our young people who are under the unceasing influence of Social Media.
Integrating Catholic Thought Throughout the Curriculum (ICTTC)
Catholic School Curriculum:
This curriculum provides schools with the concepts they need to teach four important aspects of virtue and virtuous living, holiness, conscience, and character to their students. These concepts include: Catholic Identity, the Catholic Social Teachings, Critical Thinking Skills, and Life Leadership Skills.
Parents are the primary educators of children with regard to spiritual development (L.G., 11: "Parents, by word and example, are the first heralds of the faith with regard to their children.").
Integrating Catholic Thought Throughout the Curriculum is a program to help schools teach the four core concepts of our Catholic faith to their students. Through the use of my twenty years as a Catholic school educator, as well as my ten-year career as a licensed marriage and family therapist, I provide clear and simple teaching instructions for teachers to teach these concepts in the Catholic School. These methods help teachers present to their children and adolescents the importance of learning how to live the core concepts of our Catholic faith in the everyday situations they face with friends, school mates, on their sports' teams, and in any other situation in which they are challenged to provide a living example of how to live a holy and virtuous life.
May God be your refuge and your strength today!
If you have questions, please contact me at 651-208-9829 or ksoucheray@ifhwb.com.
Thank you and God bless you all, Kate
I am available as a speaker for School Groups, Parent Groups, Homeschool Groups, Women's Groups, Cana Dinners, Retreats, and Evenings of Renewal.
Please listen to my podcast "Virtuous Living Made Simple," found on Spotify. You will also find my YouTube Channel at "Virtuous Living Made Simple." The Homework Sheets I created for my clients during my career as a therapist have become podcasts. The YouTube videos are help listeners learn how to live the concepts of virtue: Prudence, Self-Control, Courage, Justice, Faith, Hope, and Love in our everyday lives.
If you go back to the first page of my website, you will find a link to both my podcast and my YouTube videos.
We must be people of gratitude and choose to do the good and right thing in every situation we face.
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Household Holiness: Family Blessings Moment by Moment: Becoming a Means of Christ's Presence in the World is a book for women to help them find the moments of grace within each day. The book has been written in a Discussion, Bible Study, or Retreat Format and asks each woman to participate at the level of her own comfort. It is designed to provide an opportunity for women to answer important questions about their life and to share their responses with other women to the level they feel comfortable. The women may feel best just listening and not sharing a great deal. They may also feel that sharing their responses with others helps them become more virtuous and holy.
Household Holiness has been submitted to Catholic publishers and I am waiting to hear back from them. It received an Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat and was edited by well-respected Catholic editor, Jeanette Fast Redmond.
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