Why You Need to Take Care of Your Body

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast by Ascension

May 7, 202610:20Religion & Spirituality

We can fall into two traps when it comes to the body: believing the body is nothing, or believing the body is everything. Both are distortions of the truth. Fr. Mike Schmitz reminds us that we are both body and soul. You...

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