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Welcome

HBCC is a 501c3 not-for-profit Catholic public charity.

 

Faith, reason and life synthesize the identity and focus of HBCC. Theology, philosophy and psychology would be the sciences that guide the life of each person and the reason for HBCC's existence. Faith and reason would find harmony within a lifestyle (ethics). The truth of oneself is found in the integration of all the dimensions (human and divine; thoughts, feelings, affections, etc.) of life; an existence achieved and directed towards the search of "being oneself" is the task of our life. To be oneself should be one of the most important anthropological achievements of our daily life. T. Merton said: "Holiness and salvation is really the problem of discovering who I am and finding my true self". (Seeds of Contemplation). We do not know who we are and we are scattered, fragmented and disoriented, however, there is someone who does know who we are, that is God, therefore, we must have recourse to Him.

 

HBCC is based on the idea described above, its main objective is to train and guide people to become who they are using the resources and services that our center will make available to them.

 

Through digital platforms we will offer skills, resources, knowledge, therapeutic services necessary to help families and each person to discover their true nature and to move towards their true self and to move towards the Supreme Good or total good which is God.

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ABOUT ME

Fr. Lucio Nontol, TOR, is a Franciscan friar of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Assisi of the Spanish Province of the Immaculate Conception. 

 

He has studied philosophy, theology and psychology in Peru, Spain and the United States. He is currently Vicar of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Newark NJ. U.S.A., additionally he is a professor of moral theology at Seton Hall University.

 

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Mission

To help families and individuals to flourish in the most authentic way possible, based on the synthesis of faith, reason and life.

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Our resources are interdisciplinary, ranging from contemporary psychological and philosophical theories to the theological foundations offered by the Gospel, placing it in our present time.

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VALUES

-Faith, hope and charity

-Mercy-Relationality

-Forgiveness and reconciliation

-Compassion

-Common sense

-Empathy

-Peace

VISSION

To be a center of Catholic reference in the Spiritual, Psychological and Philosophical attention to people in existential crisis.

Our History

HBCC has been in the making since 2012, but only in 2021 did it begin to make its services official, although it was already offering them in the Immaculate Heart of Mary parish.

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Heart-Brain is a community center dedicated to the integral care of the human being. It offers a variety of services in order to meet the needs of families in vulnerable situations. Its goal is to provide psychological, spiritual and legal support to the diverse families of the population of Newark NJ.

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The name Heart-Brain responds to the fact that in the history of mankind there has been a cultural categorization, i.e., some cultures have been described as more "rational" and others as more "affective". In other words, the two organs of the body that since ancient times have contended for the seat of life and the psyche have been the heart and the brain. Western culture is the fusion of the two.

 

The cerebrocentrism inherited from Greece has a clear supremacy among us over the cardiocentrism bequeathed to us by the people of Israel. Is it possible to merge both realities? If we analyze the human experience, we will come to the conclusion that harmonization and dialogue between both dimensions of the human being are viable, however, we cannot pretend an absolute and clear linkage. It is a process that is gradually achieved through the search for concordant aspects between both facets of the human being.

Administration:

Franciscanos TOR

Encalada & Associates LLC

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84 Clinton Ave (Suite 3)

Newark, NJ 07114

Dirección

84 Clinton Ave (Suite 3)

Newark NJ 07114

Teléfono

(862) 658-5916

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