“Divine Mercy gives us hope. And when you're in the slop, you need hope,” he added.
Returning to the topic of his medical practice, Bruchalski explained that he named the Tepeyac Family Center to remind him why he was doing what he was doing.
Tepeyac is the site where St. Juan Diego had his vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The center treats the person “body, soul and spirit.” The doctor reported that he is “absolutely not hesitant” to speak about God when treating patients, who come from a wide variety of beliefs.
“What we try to do is to meet people where they are. What we do is we try to encourage people if they are not praying or meditating, they need to do that, to get them in touch with that higher power.
“You can't slam them over the head and talk to them in a language they don't understand. Over time, God does the hard work,” he explained, adding that all the center’s patients appreciate knowing they are being prayed for.
The doctor told the Mercy Congress that he saw four basic negative attitudes in his mainstream medical practice: fear, malformed conscience, arrogance towards human life, and the loss of a view of health that integrates religion.
There is fear of getting pregnant and the fear of overpopulation, both fears which treat the child as “a sexually transmitted disease.” There is also the fear of being sued, the fear of personal impoverishment, and the fear of not making enough money. Christian doctors also fear they will have no patients if they follow their faith.
“The answer to fear is ‘Jesus, I trust in You’,” Bruchalski commented.
He explained that in contemporary society people sometimes are viewed as objects.
“Michael Vick and dog fighting received more press time than the partial-birth abortion debate. Embryos are being pitched around in scientific experiments. They're being tested. They're being frozen. And yet, there's human life there.”
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Tepeyac Family Center and its companion organization Divine Mercy Care are efforts to correct those attitudes, Bruchalski said.
“What happens in medicine is that science and technology bring progress; they don't bring redemption. The only person who brings redemption is Christ. So if you can't tie the two together, you're lost,” he told the Mercy Congress.
The North American Congress on Mercy will take place Nov. 14-15 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The Congress says its focus will be the mercy of God as a source of hope, healing and renewal for people of all creeds.
Its website is at http://mercycongress.org.