Posts Tagged "healing"

For Peace (Cyprian of Carthage)

For Peace O God, we know that the enemies of your church are constantly seeking to provoke you into acts of cruelty, in order to blacken your honor. We beg and beseech that you will tame their wild hearts. May their rage subside and bring peace to their souls.  May their minds, clouded by the darkness which their sins produce, repent and turn towards the bright light of your forgiveness. Now they thirst for our blood because we are...

Prayer For Healing

Eternal Father, source of all mercy and love, out of love for us you sent your son, and willed that blood and water flow from his side to cleanse us of sin and restore lost innocence. Hear the cry of each woman who mourns the loss of her child to abortion. Forgive her sin, restore her to your grace, and still the terror of her heart with a peace beyond all understanding. Through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of...

Why I’m Here

I suppose it’s interesting why I am here.  A bit interesting, anyway. You see, I am a mystic.  And for most of my life, I played the Clark Kent role to my Superman. Not that I was Superman. But I certainly knew what it was to be Clark Kent. I learned at a very young age to conform to the way other people behaved.  To think like they did.  To be concerned with what they were concerned with. It tore me upside, really, to not be...

A Man Born Blind

John 9:1-7 Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him. We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming...

A Paralytic At The Pool Of Bethesda

John 5:1-9 After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways. A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is...