Welcome to CIR+ and thank you for being part of a community committed to recovery and the sacramental life of the Catholic Church. We hope that you’ll take advantage of the many available resources available to you as a CIR+ member to nourish and sustain you on your recovery and spiritual journey.
We’ve provided an overview below of the resources available to you as a CIR+ member, as well as a suggested, step-by-step guide for how you might begin using all that CIR+ has to offer.
If you aren’t already attending a CIR meeting, we encourage you to start attending one today. In meetings, we encounter the healing and freedom that can only come through fellowship with others. As a CIR+ member, you can save the meetings you regularly attend on your profile under “My Account” for your convenience.
Start every single day by prayerfully reading a reflection from a fellow CIR member that relates to the day’s Mass readings and includes questions to prompt deeper engagement—all through a recovery perspective. As a CIR+ member, you can find these in “Daily Reflection” or sign up to have these reflections sent to your inbox every day.
We encourage you to get The Catholic in Recovery Workbook: A Guide to the Twelve Steps if you haven’t done so already, which offers a guide for working the Twelve Steps of recovery from a Catholic and sacramental perspective and is designed for those impacted by a variety of addictions, compulsions, and unhealthy attachments, loved ones of an addict, and anyone else desiring to surrender their life to God’s love and care. The workbook immerses you into 12-step recovery through a Catholic lens and helps you begin or continue your journey of freedom and healing from addiction and/or unhealthy attachments. And as a CIR+ member, make sure to purchase the workbook using your 25% discount!
While waiting to receive the workbook, check out the digital workbook. The digital workbook is your virtual companion for completing the printed workbook and includes encouraging videos from CIR members, prayers, exercises, and worksheets for all 20 sections of the workbook. Explore additional resources in the Recovery Center! As a CIR+ member, you have access to a host of recovery resources, including:
Multiple video series on recovery through a Catholic perspective, including “The Twelve Steps & The Sacraments,” “Saintly Advocates,” and “Living Our Recovery”
Live and recorded webinar series hosted by experienced CIR fellows for various addiction and unhealthy attachment types (alcoholism, drugs, lust-related addictions, restricted eating, loved ones of an addict, etc.)
CIR Reflection ebooks, including the Rosary Reflections, Advent Reflections, and Lenten Reflections
PRAYER FOR SERENITY
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
