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End of Life Issues: Pain, Dignity and Quality of Life

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Deacon Pedro speaking with Chuck and Jeri Marple.

This week on a special end-of-life edition of the SLHour we continue to look at what it means to have medically assisted dying in Canada. We speak with Lisa Daniels who suffers from intolerable, debilitating pain and her doctor, Robert Hauptman and also with Chuck and Jeri Marple whose daughter Mary has cerebral palsy. They speak about quality of life and living with dignity.

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Deacon Pedro speaking with Lisa Daniels and Dr. Robert Hauptman.

Learn more about all these issues and find out how to purchase our award-winning documentary, Turning the Tide.

From Catholic Focus:
Watch Deacon Pedro’s conversation with Chuck and Jeri Marple on Catholic Focus.
Watch Deacon Pedro’s conversation with Lisa Daniels and Dr. Robert Hauptman on Catholic Focus.
Watch the full conversation of Deacon Pedro with Archbishop Richard Smith on Catholic Focus.
Watch Deacon Pedro’s conversation about legal issues with Kate Faught on Catholic Focus.
Watch Deacon Pedro’s conversation on all these issues with disability-advocate, Mark Pickup on Catholic Focus.

Watch the full Every Life Matters series.

From Perspectives: The Weekly Edition:
End of Life: Jeremy Tyrell

From Fr. Rosica:
There can be no true peace unless life is defended and promoted – A reflection on Euthanasia

And from our Blog:
Deacon-structing End of Life:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5 (Me Before You)

Deacon-structing End of Life Issues:
The Law
Palliative Care
Life, Liberty and Security

 

Build On Rock

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Henri Nouwen
is an internationally renowned priest, author, professor and pastor. This week we learn how, 20 years after his death, he continues inspiring many. Danny Torchia shares one more good PR tip, Sebastian speaks with film critic John Mulderig on Connect5 and we meet singer/songwriter Maria Pineda from Australia of the Verbum Dei Fraternity, who has a new album, Build On Rock.

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Watch Sebastian Gomes’ conversation with John Mulderig on Connect5.

Aboriginal and Catholic?

IMG_7084Can you be Aboriginal and Catholic at the same time? This week we speak with Sr. Priscilla Solomon, CSJ about Truth, reconciliation and the rights of indigenous peoples; Gillian Kantor learns something from her children, Sebastian Gomes speaks with Jim Wallis on Connect5 and we meet singer/songwriter Jonathan Wayne Hilsden.

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Watch Deacon Pedro’s conversation with Sr. Priscilla Solomon, CSJ on Perspectives: The Weekly Edition. Here’s also where you’ll find all the resources mentioned in the interview.

Watch Sebastian Gomes’ conversation with Jim Wallis on Connect5.

From Emilie:
Learn more about End-of-Life Issues:
Every Life Matters
Catholic Focus: The Law
Catholic Focus: Human Life Matters
Catholic Focus: What Does the Church Say?
Catholic Focus: Ending the Pain

Turning the Tide: Dignity, Compassion and Euthanasia

Cardinal Lacroix’s Pastoral Letter “‘Assistance in Dying’: No Deadline for Dignity”

Pope Francis’ Meditations for Jubilee of Priests:
Meditation 1
Meditation 2
Meditation 3

Encore presentation of Every Life Matters and other conversations

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This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, author, Carissa Douglas talks about teaching our kids about Confession and Archbishop Smith of Edmonton tells us why Every Life Matters.  We also catch up with singer/songwriter Tom Booth and meet ValLimar Jansen.

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This program is available thanks to the support of our generous donors. Thank you for your donation to keep the SLHour on the air.

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Watch all the Every Life Matters broadcasts.

End of Life Issues: The Law and Human Life Matters

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This week on a special “end-of-life” edition of the SLHour, we look at how the law is changing in Canada to allow for medically assisted dying, and what that would mean. We speak with Kate Faught, a lawyer in Edmonton and also with disability-rights-advocate, Mark Pickup. These interviews aired on the Salt + Light TV program, Catholic Focus and were made posssible thanks to Archbishop Richard Smith and his Communications and Life and Family team in Edmonton, as part of the Every Life Matters series.

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Watch Deacon Pedro’s conversation with Kate Faught on Catholic Focus.
Watch Deacon Pedro’s conversation with Mark Pickup on Catholic Focus.

Subject Matters

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Are people still reading books? This week Sebastian Gomes tells us why we need another book show; Also Danny Torchia tells us about the new frontier in communications, we hear Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster on pastoral challenges of the family and we catch up with singer/songwriter Sarah Hart.

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Listen to Sarah Hart’s other interviews on the SLHour:
June 29, 2013
November 23, 2013
Christmas Special 2011
January 29, 2011 
June 26, 2009

And for a real throwback treat, here’s a TV interview Deacon Pedro did with Sarah Hart in 2009 for Catholic Focus.

Faithful Traveler

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This week on the SLHour we speak with filmmaker, Diana von Glahn of The Faithful Traveler about her newest series on papal pilgrimages to the Holy Land; Gillian Kantor tells us what she learned from her kids this month, Sebastian Gomes speaks with Islamic expert Fr. Patrick Ryan on Connect5 and we reconnect with singer/songwriter Rebecca Roubion.

[Don’t forget to send us your HAIKU prayer. Send it via email, Facebook, Twitter or record it here via direct voice mail message by clicking on the tab on the right side of this webpage —>.]

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Watch Sebastian’s interview with Fr. Patrick Ryan on Connect5.

Listen to Rebecca Roubion’s last interview about Sleepless Nights from October 24, 2015.
You can also listen to Rebecca Roubion’s first interview on the SLHour from April 2014. and also to the interview about her Christmas album from Dec. 2014.

And here is the official video of Rebecca Roubion’s Sleepless Nights:

Video Director and Producer: William Price, III (Whiskey Ginger Please, Inc.)

“Sleepless Nights”, written and owned by Rebecca Roubion. Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. www.rebeccaroubion.com | SLEEPLESS NIGHTS OUT NOW: iTunes

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Blessed are the stressed

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Blessed are the stressed? This week on the SLHour, Sr. Mary Lea Hill, fsp shares secrets to a happy heart from a crabby mystic. Mark Matthews has a Hollywood prayer request; Sebastian Gomes speaks with Jim Triggs about the St. John’s Bible on Connect5 and we reconnect with Fr. Robert Galea.

[See below to read all the wonderful Haiku Prayers we received and don’t forget to send us your HAIKU prayer. Send it via email, Facebook, Twitter or record it here via direct voice mail message by clicking on the tab on the right side of this webpage —>.]

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Watch Sebastian’s interview with Jim Triggs on Connect5.

Watch the official video of Fr. Robert Galea’s new EDM Single: Breakthrough:

And here are two more #HaikuPrayers we received:

From Stephanie B. ‏@FuryanHound via Twitter:
My Lord is my Strength,
He has healed my depression!
I proclaim Him King!

From Nicholas Modelski via Facebook:
O, Lord Jesus Christ,
Fountain of boundless mercy,
Teach us to love all.

A culture of vocations

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This week on the SLHour we learn how to foster a culture of vocations and Sr. Marie Paul Curley comments on the best film of the year. Also, Sebastian Gomes speaks with Senator Bernie Sanders on Connect5 and we meet singer/songwriter and Catholic entertainer Kyle Heimann.

[See below to read all the wonderful Haiku Prayers we received and don’t forget to send us your HAIKU prayer. Send it via email, Facebook, Twitter or record it here via direct voice mail message by clicking on the tab on the right side of this webpage —>.]

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Watch Sebastian’s interview with Bernie Sanders on Connect5.

Read Sr. Marie Paul’s review of Spotlight.

Here are all the wonderful HaikuPrayers we received from Deanna Pierre’s Catechism students in Omaha, NE.

Guardian Angel,
Thank you for your help and care,
Thank you for your love.
~Tiffany M.

Jesus help the sick
Oh Jesus, help the sinners
Bathe in your mercy.
~ Emily

Dear God, I love you
Thanks for watching over me
Help me love you more
~ Yeily O.

Guardian Angel
I thank you for everything
Please keep protecting
~ Mairan R.

Guardian Angel
You keep me away from sin
Help me do great things
~ Jade S.

Jesus I love you
Please give me grace to do Your Will
I believe in You
~ Abigail R.

Jesus I love You
Help me get closer to You
While I am alive
~ Abby S.

Dear God thanks so much
You make my life easier
When I pray to You
~ ?

God thank You so much
You helped me learn my prayers
You taught me to love
~ Marissa R.

You look over me
Jesus I love You so much
I admire You
~ Marlene V.

Jesus Lord Savior
Forgive me all of my sins
Teach me how to love
~ Laisha S.

Jesus I love You
Thank you for your love and care
Please be good to me
~ Yacire O.

Help me love You more
Lord, guide me and protect me
Lead me towards Your Will
~ Samantha G.

Mary cleanse my soul
Guide me and all my choices
Give me strength and love
~ Jennifer S.

Mary, my mother
Holy, pure mother cleanse me
All my love for you
~ Cyndi G.

God please stay with me
and watch me through the long day
and through the long night
~ Diana R.

Assisted dying; confession and other conversations

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This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, author, Carissa Douglas talks about teaching our kids about Confession and Archbishop Smith of Edmonton tells us why Every Life Matters.  We also catch up with singer/songwriter Tom Booth and meet ValLimar Jansen.

[and don’t forget to send us your HAIKU prayer. Send it via email, Facebook, Twitter or record it here via direct voice mail message by clicking on the tab on the right side of this webpage —>.]

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This program is available thanks to the support of our generous donors. Thank you for your donation to keep the SLHour on the air.

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Watch all the Every Life Matters webcasts at the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton.