Have you ever attended a "healing" mass?

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Have you ever attended a healing mass?
Where people were healed and gave testomony. Of the healing?
 
Every mass is a healing mass!

ETA: Giving testimony is not fitting during Mass, and remember, the Church has a process for investigating reported healing miracles.
 
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Have you ever attended a healing mass?
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Yep. A shrine near my house offers one once a month. I went with a friend who has a sick child. The child was anointed, as were the others who were sick.

I know a lady, a devout Catholic, who went to one where a lot of people - I’m not sure how to phrase it, passed out? Went to sleep? - anyway, they collapsed on the floor and were said to be resting in the Spirit. Her husband, an agnostic, was with her. He was a tall, powerfully built man, and she is a petite person. He tried to pick her up to move her (he thought she was pretending) but found that, for all his strength and all her littleness, she was completely immovable from the spot where she’d fallen. But forgive me, I’m getting off topic…
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Where people were healed and gave testomony. Of the healing?
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Nope, no one gave testimony. I agree with TheLittleLady. I’m not sure of the legalities, but since the Church is so careful about investigating healings (and rightly so) I have difficulty imagining this happening.
 
I’ve actually never heard of a healing mass. Often times our priest will bless the sick after or before mass, but not during… at least not to the degree that I am thinking.
 
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I have been to a few healing masses where people have “fallen.” (They had people standing to assist/catch those that fell.) One woman was “out” for at least 15 minutes. Everyone just walked around her as they returned to their seats. At some point, she just got up and went back to her seat.

I almost had the experience of falling. It is a very peaceful and yes, restful feeling. But I suddenly became aware that I was moving and caught myself and stood up. I wish I hadn’t!

There was no testimony from anyone. The visiting priest as well as the parish priests all participated with the same results, by the way.
 
yeah falling and becoming immovable? That sounds kind of odd. This is taking place during the mass?
 
My great aunt who was dying with cancer did. I believe it was a visiting priest and he stopped at only her and asked “what’s wrong?” I believe she lived longer than expected.
 
Ive been to a healing service, with an irish healer called john gillespie. It was very intense and there were around three exorcisms happening, screams horrible voices
 
I have seen healings at Charismatic Conferences. Sometimes at Masses.
 
Excuse me? What is demonic about Catholic priests at a healing mass? Their power of healing, which is emotional healing mostly based as I can tell, comes from God through the hands of his faithful priests. No screaming, no demons. Just peace.
 
No one said they couldn’t move. It was almost like they fainted, except they didn’t faint, it’s like a kind of sleep.

It is one part of a mass, people line up as if going to communion. Then mass continues. Nothing odd at all.
 
I think she was responding to me. I told of a lady who said her husband couldn’t carry her away from the spot where she’d fallen.
 
I don’t know if the immovable part is the norm, I’ve never been to one where people fell. The one I went to was structured a lot like Ash Wednesday, where you line up, receive the anointing (I hope I’m using the right terminology here), and return back to your pew and the Mass continues.

The woman who told my family about her experience of falling was a friend of my mother. She thought the reason her husband couldn’t move her was because he wanted to take her out of the church. He was a non-Catholic and didn’t understand why his wife was on the floor. He thought it was all pretend to get him to convert. She considered this experience a grace.

My mother went to one many years ago where people fell. She prayed she wouldn’t and didn’t.
 
Just saying. After all, didn’t the Bishop or priest tell Bernadette that the Marian apparitions could be the work of the devil?

From what I understand, the devil is not barred from a church.
 
My point is that the Church is very careful about declaring something a miracle. The devil HAS appeared as Mary. The devil can give someone a rose (St Theresa novena). The devil will mess with you while you’re making your examination of conscious - while in the chapel. The devil can completely leave you alone and I believe he does leave many people alone. I’m certain most of you here know of someone (divorced) who is SO MUCH happier in their 2nd marriage. The devil’s got them where he wants them. Don’t think the devil has an influence on priests and the hierarchy? When is the last time we’ve been to a funeral Mass and it was a Mass for the dead instead of the resurrection?

I’m all over the place. Just trying to convey the power of Satan and his demons. He is a great mathematician. He is a liar. He will make himself violently ill performing a truth just to contaminate that truth with just enough error to lead one astray.
 
Where such things become questionable to some Catholics is the lack of a presence, to my knowledge, of a “healing Mass” in the Liturgical books of the Church. The priest essentially ad libs as he goes and fails to “read the black, do the read,” essentially bringing into question whether such Masses fall into the liturgical abuse category. In my opinion such events should indeed occur outside of the Mass. My parish for one is one in which you’ll never see any “Healing Mass” occur and its pastor also happens to be the Dean of this diocesan geographical area.
 
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I have attended a charismatic healing Mass and I can’t say anyone was healed but I did have an experience of feeling very peaceful for several days afterwards. The priest also would say things to each person and what he said to me was accurate in terms of an issue.
Another time quite a few years ago I attended a so called healing Mass with a well-known priest who conducted these things on a regular basis. There were people falling over (who seemed to me to be over-emotional types since I knew some of them). When I didn’t “fall over” the priest actually pushed on me again harder. Guess what, I still didn’t fall over. I wasn’t too impressed with that one,
 
Irishmom2, I actually did fall! I really tried to resist but I could not! When I went up to the priest, he asked about if there was anything specific I was concerned with. I told him my anxiety was at a very high level, that I worried about everyone and everything and that I had a very bad pain in my back and knee.
Then he prayed over me , never actually touching me and I fell down. It was the most wonderful feeling to just let go and feel so peaceful. I felt like an electric shock going through my body. When I got up, I could hardly walk, my husband had to help me into the pew. My whole body was tingling. When we got in the car,
I touched my knee and no pain, I touched my spine and no pain!
The following Sunday, when I went to church I related the story to our Monsignor and his answer to me was " GOD must really love you"
PS. Many people gave testimony of how being prayed over by that priest had their prayers answered by GOD!!!
 
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