The sixth annual National Catholic Health Care Week takes place from Sunday, February 2 to Saturday, February 8, 2025.
National Catholic Health Care Week leads into The World Day of the Sick on February 11, a Catholic day of observance established by Pope John Paul II to encourage prayers and reflections for those who are ill and for all those who care for them.
Caring for our Common Home
Our 2025 theme celebrates the interconnectedness of all creation and helps us to reflect on how our individual and collective actions and our systems—health, social, economic—can promote a healthy world where all can thrive. It emphasizes the integral connection between human health and the health of the planet, echoing Pope Francis’ call to care for the earth as our common home (Laudato Si’). We work with many partners—in our Catholic community, our health system and beyond—to contribute to and help shape an ever-evolving health system, drawing on our Catholic values, and a legacy of innovation and ethical reflection. As Catholic health we are committed to environmental stewardship and conservation and actions to promote human flourishing. This week calls us to put the love at the heart of our ministry into action and inspires us to work towards environmental sustainability and human health and wellbeing in our homes, workplaces, communities and our world.
The Courageous Gift of Catholic Health Care
As Catholic health organizations across Canada, we are united in a 400-year healing mission and are inspired by a calling to care for all with compassion and humanity—body, mind and spirit. We are driven to improve health care for all Canadians, especially those at greatest risk, as innovators, advocates and strong partners across our health care system. We are driven to make the world a better place, where everyone finds belonging, dignity and worth. In this, we reach out and take action with others to mend and bridge gaps, open doors and create the conditions for a society where all are seen and heard.
https://www.chac.ca/en/national-catholic-health-care-week/
We are children of the earth: people to whom the outdoors is home. Nothing can separate us from the vigour and vibrancy of this inheritance. (John O’Donahue)
The magnificent interplay of the air we breathe, the water we drink and the land we live on gives all things life.
Bless the gardens of the world, the soil and rain and sunshine, and the work of all who sow and reap. Give abundant harvests, and teach us to share them with justice.
Spending time with nature centres us in our relationship with all living things and connects us to a bounty of gifts that foster health and wholeness—body, mind and soul.
The choices we make each day impact our environment and the health and wellbeing of our human family around the globe. Let us be people of hope, believing our collective actions can build a world of justice and peace.