Posts in the "Healing" category

Articles on forms of service devoted to health and healing.

 

Euthanasia — Pro and Con

Bloc MP Francine Lalonde has introduced her third private member’s bill, C-384, to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. This fall, federal deputies will talk about these medical acts to accept or refuse it. It is important for us to know more about Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Human Lifes are in danger. – Bill C-384 (pdf) [...]

A Time of Humility and Pastoral Charity even for the Pope.

In these last months since Jan 21, the Church, and particularly the Pope, have gone through a tough time. The lifting of the excommunication on the four Bishops of the Society of St Pius X, caused great uproar in Church circles as well as in relations with the Jewish people. Mistakes were admittedly made from [...]

A need for Repentance and the Gift of Forgiveness

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 one point “I need [...]

Prayer request

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 [...]

How Jesus heals today

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 death will ever [...]

Book review : The Temperament God Gave You

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, [...]

Thoughts on Unity in the Body

Even in our very bodies, we were created to be united.

Who should be anointed?

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.

A new healing ministry

Developing a structured approach to establishing a new healing ministry in our diocese.

Health vs. Healing

I have come to the realisation that there is a conceptual difference between a “health” ministry and a “healing” ministry.