Welcome to CIR+ and thank you for your interest in becoming 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 in our CIR+ programs. Whether online in our web forum or as a part of your local parish CIR+ team we want to help 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+ participant, 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 at your parish, we encourage you to start attending right there at St. Francis in Blairsville. In meetings, we encounter the healing and freedom that can only come through fellowship with others.
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.
The workbook and other materials are available through your local CIR+ representative at St. Francis. 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!
For anyone in the Blairsville, Blue Ridge, Elijay area looking for a CIR+ group session. There is a new group meeting at St Francis of Assisi in Blairsville. The administrator is Misti Tiedemann. Please fill out the form below and include your personal contact information for meeting specifics and to answer any questions. And welcome to CIR+
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.
