Posts in the "Healing" category
Articles on forms of service devoted to health and healing.
Recently, I discovered a clip from the television show, E.R. It showed a man facing the end of life with the burden of a perceived sin causing him great anxiety. He shares his distress with a so called spiritual councilor who cannot respond to his need for absolution, He states at […]
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From a reader:
Another prayer request for my husband’s sister, Beverley. She will be 53 on Monday. Unfortunately the cancer has spread from a Melonoma on a lymphnode to the spine, then to the lungs with spots on the liver & pancras. The doctors are giving her radiation treatment to help reduce the pain.
If you […]
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Very often, when we approach the Lord for a healing what we are really looking for is a cure. If that is our desire, we may find ourselves disappointed and even in despair. But there is no sacrament, for example, that can stave off death inevitably. The only way the disease of […]
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Have you ever wondered why some children seem to have been born neat, while others leave a tornado in their wake? Why are some people always upbeat and optimistic, their glass “half full,” while others seem to be enveloped in a black cloud, their glass always “half empty”? For some, no passing thought goes unexpressed, […]
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While it might seem obvious that the Anointing of the Sick should be given to people who are sick, there are cases that are harder to discern. This article examines some of the issues present.
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Developing a structured approach to establishing a new healing ministry in our diocese.
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I have come to the realisation that there is a conceptual difference between a “health” ministry and a “healing” ministry.
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