Reboot Combat Recovery

Our parish is comprised of many veterans - Army, Air Force, Marines, and Navy. And if we have not personally served there are others whose family eboot embers have served our country. Our parish supports our service men and women and feel strongly about veterans affairs, as well as our first-responders.

Last September, in order to express this commitment to our service members we decided that we would look to make a difference. At that time Fr. Mirabile learned about Reboot Combat Recovery. he then asked Kathy Lewis, whose father was a Navy veteran, to do some research into bringing the program here. 

Last March saw the start of Reboot Combat Recovery here at Trinity.  Ours is the first group to offer Reboot in the North East, something for which we are very proud. Reboot is a 12 week combat trauma healing course intended to heal the spiritual and moral wounds of combat. Eight men attended the course and it will finish at the end of May with a graduation. Each week we served food to our program participants, provided child care when it was necessary, watched the video, and discussed the chapter in the provided workbook.  Fr. Matt led the discussions, which, at times were deep and very meaningful. Men remembered experiences that they had trouble forgetting, worked through the roots of trauma, and dealt with false guilt. We also built friendships.  And while the program is for veterans, one man who participated in the program because of his work with veterans was not himself a veteran but had experienced his own trauma with stage four cancer. He also found the program to be deeply meaningful.  Our graduation is June 1st, at 7:00 pm and anticipate a good turn out of friends and family.

Next Fall we will offer Reboot again, and we are already getting calls from people interested in attending.  If you are interested in attending a Reboot Course please give us a call. 

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