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Looking for senior housing, memory care or other services? The Catholic Spirit brings a selection of them to you in this annual guide. To our readers The descriptions of senior housing and services in this section were provided by the facilities and service agencies, which are responsible for the accuracy of the content. — The Catholic Spirit
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The Glenn Hopkins and The Glenn Minnetonka With the founding principles of a belief in the dignity and value of each individual and the understanding that every senior desires to live in a welcoming, vibrant and supportive community, The Glenn Hopkins and The Glenn Minnetonka offer a senior community that is not just a place to stay, but a place to live. Offering independent living, assisted living, memory care, care suites and adult day services, The Glenn provides the amenities and services that create a vibrant retirement lifestyle. You’ll experience a spiritual environment in which people of all faiths are welcome. Mass, interfaith services, rosary, Bible study and beautifully designed chapels for quiet reflection and prayer are a few of the amenities supporting your spiritual journey. Our Community Life programs embrace the physical, intellectual, emotional, social and community stewardship roles in seniors’ lives through scheduled bus outings and numerous recreational opportunities. For more information or to schedule your personal tour, please contact: The Glenn Hopkins — 952-933-3333, www.theglennhopkins.com; The Glenn Minnetonka — 952-352-1000, www.theglennminnetonka.com.
MJ Properties of St. Paul, LLLP Location, location, location! Walk to Mass daily when you live at 1440 Randolph Ave. in St. Paul’s Highland Park. With beautifully remodeled granite kitchens, our value-priced apartments are perfect for today’s independent senior, age 55 and better. Adjacent to Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 1440 Randolph provides a quiet, simple, yet elegant atmosphere for working and retired independent seniors who wish to stay in the neighborhood or live close to a Catholic church and the sacraments. Nearby are great restaurants, pharmacies, a choice of grocery stores, medical and dental offices, beauty and barber shops, car repair, coffee, Cretin-Derham Hall baseball, The Lexington restaurant and the Grand Avenue shops. At 1440 Randolph, you can enjoy a modernized elevator, underground heated parking or outside garages, a state-of-the-art monitored smoke and carbon monoxide system, new appliances, friendly on-site management, a mini health clinic, fitness center and club room with Wi-Fi access and cable TV. For more information or to schedule a showing, please call MJ Properties of St. Paul at 651-690-4961.
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Pope: At Mass, God accepts humble gifts, gives abundantly By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service God asks so little of people and yet he gives so much in return, Pope Francis said. “He asks for our goodwill in daily life, he asks us for an open heart, he asks us to be willing to be better,” the pope said at his weekly general audience at the Vatican Feb. 28. Because of ice and unusual freezing temperatures in Rome, Pope Francis held the audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall. But the Vatican also opened St. Peter’s Basilica to accommodate the overflow. Giant screens were set up in the Basilica, so people could follow the audience, and later the pope went to the Basilica to greet and bless those inside. “It’s better to be here than in the cold, right?” he asked those in the Basilica. In his main talk, the pope continued his series on the Mass, focusing on the Liturgy of the Eucharist, which begins with the preparation of the gifts of bread and wine that are then consecrated and distributed to the faithful at holy Communion. During the Mass, the priest represents Christ and does what the Lord did at the Last Supper: takes up the bread and wine to give to his disciples, saying “this is my body, this is my blood. Do this in memory of me,” the pope said. It’s good, he said, that the people of God present the priest with the bread and wine for consecration because the
elements represent “the spiritual offering of the Church.” At the offertory, all the faithful are invited to present their own lives as a spiritual offering together with the gifts brought to the altar, he said. “The center of the Mass is the altar, and the altar is Christ. Always look at the altar,” which also represents the cross where Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice, he added. “To the altar of Christ, we bring the little [there is with] our gifts — bread and wine — and they become the plenty — Jesus himself, who gives himself to us” in the Eucharist, the pope said. “Of course, our offering isn’t much, but Christ needs this tiny amount. The Lord asks for little and he gives us so much,” he said. Catholics should experience the preparation of the gifts at every Mass as an invitation to offer their lives more fully to the Lord so that they would receive from him the grace needed to grow in holiness, encounter others with love and compassion, and “build the earthly city in the light of the Gospel,” the pope said. After a summary of the pope’s talk was read in Arabic, the pope asked everyone to pray for all the people of Syria and the Middle East — “a martyred land.” “We have to pray for these brothers and sisters who are at war and for the persecuted Christians — they want to expel them from that land. Let us pray for our brothers and sisters,” the pope said.
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Saint Therese Saint Therese is a nonprofit, Catholic senior living organization born out of a simple mission: Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. For 50 years, we have supported Twin Cities’ seniors with innovative programs designed to make life more fulfilling. As individual needs change, so do our care offerings — all while creating countless opportunities for physical wellness, spiritual connection and social activities. We have five communities, located in New Hope, Brooklyn Park, Shoreview, Robbinsdale and Woodbury, rich with thoughtful amenities and support. Our compassionate services reach seniors living in the broader Twin Cities area through home care, outpatient therapies and wellness programs. For more information, visit sttheresemn.org.
Benedictine Health System The Benedictine Health System is one of the largest Catholic senior care organizations in the country, operating more than 35 communities in six states, including eight in the Twin Cities. BHS is a mission-based, nonprofit health system headquartered in Minnesota, sponsored by the Benedictine sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth. BHS provides a continuum of care services for aging adults, including independent senior housing, assisted living, skilled nursing, memory care and rehabilitation services.
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Palliative care is pro-life response to euthanasia, panelists say
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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
The doctor’s task always is to care, even when it is not possible to heal.
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ntentionally causing a patient’s death is different from accepting that a patient is dying, then providing emotional and spiritual support and pain relief, said a doctor who practices and promotes palliative care. Dr. Eduardo Bruera, medical director of the Department of Supportive Care Center at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, was one of the speakers at a Feb. 28-March 1 international congress on palliative care sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life. “The reality is that, in medicine, we have focused much more on disease than on patients,” Bruera said. For example, he said, patients who report a “highsymptom burden” may be suffering from their cancer or from the toxicity of their treatment, but their situation also may be approaching the unbearable because they lost their job or are worrying about the impact of their illness on their families. Palliative care, Bruera said, asks the medical team, the patient and the family to work together to alleviate suffering, whether it is physical, emotional or spiritual. In a message to the conference at Rome’s Augustinian Patristic Institute, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said palliative care involves “a rediscover[y] of the most profound vocation of medicine, which consists first of all in taking care of the patient. The doctor’s task always is to care, even when it is not possible to heal.” Obviously, he said, medicine and medical research have an enduring commitment to discovering new cures and defeating illness, but palliative care shows an awareness that, when everything medical has been attempted, limits must be “recognized and accepted.” “When all the resources of ‘doing’ seem to be exhausted,” he said, “then comes the most important aspect of human relations, that of ‘being’: being present,
Cardinal Pietro Parolin being near, being accepting.” For Christians, he said, that means “sharing the impotence of those reaching the end of life,” and making sure that the final phase of a person’s life on earth “is no longer a place of separation and solitude, but an occasion of encounter and communion.” “Pain therapy” is a particularly sensitive area of palliative care, he said, noting that “already Pope Pius XII, distinguishing it from euthanasia, clearly gave legitimacy to the administration of analgesics to alleviate unbearable pain that could not be treated in any other way even when, in the phase of imminent death, it could cause a shortening of life.” “Attentive discernment and much prudence” also is needed when determining the appropriate use of pharmacological sedation, “especially when prolonged and profound,” because it “annuls the relational and communicative dimension” of palliative care, especially its emphasis on family and community. Prolonged sedation at the end of life, he said, “is, therefore, always partially unsatisfactory and so should be considered an extreme measure to be taken only after having examined and clarified its implications attentively.” Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Academy for Life, said palliative care’s focus on communication among caregivers, patients and family members is essential for overcoming the confusion and debate about “therapeutic obstinacy,” which is using “an excess of treatments that lead to useless suffering.” “In other words,” he said, “doing everything possible
— when understood in the sense of always using every means available — can mean doing too much.” “Doing more does not always mean doing better,” the archbishop said. Archbishop Paglia told the conference that experience has shown that people who support or request euthanasia or physicianassisted suicide focus on “two fears: that of being abandoned and that of pain.” Palliative care, he said, is an attempt BISHOP to respond to and allay such fears and, KEVIN VANN as such, “is a fundamental part of our pro-life work.” Bishop Kevin Vann of Orange, California, attended the meeting on behalf of the California Catholic Conference, which is working closely with the Alliance of Catholic Health Care to educate people about palliative care and offer it in every Catholic hospital in California, which made physician-assisted suicide legal in 2016. The Catholic program is called “Whole Person Care” and has the mission of showing every person he or she is “loved, wanted and worthy, and will be prepared for and supported in health and serious illness through the end of life,” according to the project outline. Bishop Vann said the project offers “an alternative to physician-assisted suicide” by “improving all of our pastoral care and outreach.” “Being present to folks” experiencing the fragility of the end of life, “being on the journey with them to explain to them and teach them” the sacred value of life at every stage and, particularly, showing them that they are not alone are essential for combating euthanasia, the bishop said. When the California legislation passed, he said, fear of dying alone and in pain and a desire to exercise autonomy at the last moments of life seemed to be the primary motivations for supporting the measure.
STAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD!
Walk to Daily Mass When You Live at 1440 Randolph Ave!
Open Weekdays 10-3 pm
Reasonably priced, spacious 1 & 2 BR Apartments* for Independent Seniors 55 and Better. Come see our stylish and modern kitchens! On a bus line, within blocks of supermarket, Walgreens Pharmacy, local coffee shops, Cretin Baseball games and just a little further Highland National Golf Course and the Grand Avenue Shops! • ELEVATOR • Underground heated/outside garages* • On-site Management • State-of-the-art Monitored Fire & CO System
*When available.
The Best Kept Secret in Highland Park!
Located adjacent to Holy Spirit Catholic Church and School, in the lovely Highland Park area, this building provides a quiet, simple, yet elegant living atmosphere for independent seniors of 55 and Better who wish to "Stay in the Neighborhood" or live in close proximity to a Catholic Church and the Sacraments. Guests are greeted by classical music just inside the entry of the building's upscale, smartly appointed and warmly finished Lobby. Summer months on our quaint patio offer the calming sounds of a graceful fountain beside an inviting cafe table and umbrella in addition to a bench upon which to rest and enjoy the sunset at the close of each day.
Also Open Saturdays in April & May 10 am to 1 pm!
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