[We recommend that you set aside a good bit of time in a quiet place to pray for inner healing. This process can’t be rushed. It is usually helpful if you have someone to pray along with you—a trained counselor or minister, someone who knows a bit about healing prayer, or simply a friend who knows Jesus and wants to help you. It is not mandatory, but it can be helpful. Read through this entire process before you begin.] When we are in...
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(by Joe Simmons, SJ) This past weekend witnessed the canonization of seven new saints in Rome. For holy men or women to be recognized as capital-S Saints in the Roman Catholic Church, typically two miracles need to be attributed to their intercession. Usually these come when someone is healed without an easy medical explanation. Call me the modern skeptic, but I always found this litmus test to be… well… troubling, I guess. In my...
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(by Scott Cairns) More than a hundred years ago, a chronically afflicted Emily Dickinson observed something of pain’s curious effects and aftermath. “After great pain,” she wrote, ” a formal feeling comes.” Her poem continues: The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs— The still Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’ And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’? The Feet, mechanical, go...
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O Father of mercies and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need: We ask you to behold, visit, and relieve your sick servant for whom our prayers are desired. Look upon him with the eyes of your mercy: comfort him with a sense of your goodness; preserve him from the temptations of the enemy; and give him patience under his affliction. In your good time, restore him to health, and enable him to lead the residue of his life in...
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Liturgy of the Holy Spirit Hold fast to the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of Heaven’s peace. We are bound together by the love of Christ. Prayer for faith Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, cast out demons. Anything is possible if a person believes. Help us grow our confidence in your power. Jesus, you laid hands on the sick and they were healed. You said: The one who believes in me will also do the works...
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