Sacrament: Healing

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Tonight, I’ll be receiving the Sacrament of Healing, along with the Eucharist at Mass. What a joyful Sacrament this is, yet not a popular or well known one, that many can partake of. It is not the same as ‘Last Rites’.

Many, if not all, of us need healing, whether emotional, physical or spiritual. When we examine ourselves and our lives, we might feel burdened by all that we lack, or that we think we need. I have a few needs myself, in all 3 categories. Which one do I pray for? Which one do I ask for? I’ve been praying and trying to discern that answer since I learned of tonight’s Mass and healing service.

I’m going to put it in God’s Hands, in His Will, but will ask for and pray for what is in my heart. He alone knows what I need most; He knows me better than I know myself. He knows what I need, and what desires need most fulfilled in order to glorify Him.

I’m going to be praying for many, including a friend who has just learned she must have brain surgery tomorrow morning; she is the mother of 2 young children, a loving wife, child of God and is young herself.

I have a close relationship with the Holy Spirit, growing closer all the time. I will be offering prayers for you, my friends (and for my enemies) during this powerful evening. This will be taking place around 8-10 PM Eastern time, if you’d like to join me spiritually in prayer. I will be following up on this thread, in thankfulness for the healing He is granting us through the Holy Spirit tonight. I trust in Him completely, and give myself to Him to do with what He wants and will.

Please pray for me as well. Thank you for listening.
 
What a wonderful thing to do!

If I may ask for prayers for the curing of the ringing in my ear, it would be greatly appreciated!

And I will join in prayer with you at that time for your intentions as well!
 
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Tonight, I’ll be receiving the Sacrament of Healing, along with the Eucharist at Mass. What a joyful Sacrament this is, yet not a popular or well known one, that many can partake of. It is not the same as ‘Last Rites’.

Many, if not all, of us need healing, whether emotional, physical or spiritual. When we examine ourselves and our lives, we might feel burdened by all that we lack, or that we think we need. I have a few needs myself, in all 3 categories. Which one do I pray for? Which one do I ask for? I’ve been praying and trying to discern that answer since I learned of tonight’s Mass and healing service.

I’m going to put it in God’s Hands, in His Will, but will ask for and pray for what is in my heart. He alone knows what I need most; He knows me better than I know myself. He knows what I need, and what desires need most fulfilled in order to glorify Him.

I’m going to be praying for many, including a friend who has just learned she must have brain surgery tomorrow morning; she is the mother of 2 young children, a loving wife, child of God and is young herself.

I have a close relationship with the Holy Spirit, growing closer all the time. I will be offering prayers for you, my friends (and for my enemies) during this powerful evening. This will be taking place around 8-10 PM Eastern time, if you’d like to join me spiritually in prayer. I will be following up on this thread, in thankfulness for the healing He is granting us through the Holy Spirit tonight. I trust in Him completely, and give myself to Him to do with what He wants and will.

Please pray for me as well. Thank you for listening.
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I will certainly remember you and your friend who is undergoing surgery in my prayers. I hope she was able to be anointed.

It is important, of course, to recall the norms the Church has established relative to this sacrament.

They are articulated in the Code of Canon Law:
*Can. 998 The anointing of the sick, by which the Church commends the faithful who are dangerously ill to the suffering and glorified Lord in order that he relieve and save them, is conferred by anointing them with oil and pronouncing the words prescribed in the liturgical books.

Can. 1004 §1. The anointing of the sick can be administered to a member of the faithful who, having reached the use of reason, begins to be in danger due to sickness or old age.

§2. This sacrament can be repeated if the sick person, having recovered, again becomes gravely ill or if the condition becomes more grave during the same illness.
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And in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
*1514 The Anointing of the Sick “is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death. Hence, as soon as anyone of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age, the fitting time for him to receive this sacrament has certainly already arrived.”

1515 If a sick person who received this anointing recovers his health, he can in the case of another grave illness receive this sacrament again. If during the same illness the person’s condition becomes more serious, the sacrament may be repeated. It is fitting to receive the Anointing of the Sick just prior to a serious operation. The same holds for the elderly whose frailty becomes more pronounced.*
 
ccmcmg said:
Tonight, I’ll be receiving the Sacrament of Healing, along with the Eucharist at Mass. What a joyful Sacrament this is, yet not a popular or well known one, that many can partake of. It is not the same as ‘Last Rites’.

Many, if not all, of us need healing, whether emotional, physical or spiritual. When we examine ourselves and our lives, we might feel burdened by all that we lack, or that we think we need. I have a few needs myself, in all 3 categories. Which one do I pray for? Which one do I ask for? I’ve been praying and trying to discern that answer since I learned of tonight’s Mass and healing service.

I’m going to put it in God’s Hands, in His Will, but will ask for and pray for what is in my heart. He alone knows what I need most; He knows me better than I know myself. He knows what I need, and what desires need most fulfilled in order to glorify Him.

I’m going to be praying for many, including a friend who has just learned she must have brain surgery tomorrow morning; she is the mother of 2 young children, a loving wife, child of God and is young herself.

I have a close relationship with the Holy Spirit, growing closer all the time. I will be offering prayers for you, my friends (and for my enemies) during this powerful evening. This will be taking place around 8-10 PM Eastern time, if you’d like to join me spiritually in prayer. I will be following up on this thread, in thankfulness for the healing He is granting us through the Holy Spirit tonight. I trust in Him completely, and give myself to Him to do with what He wants and will.

Please pray for me as well. Thank you for listening.
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This was a beautiful post! Thank you for sharing, and for your prayers. You have mine.

When I first read the title, I thought this was a thread on the other Sacrament of Healing - Confession. Both Holy Mysteries are beautiful gifts to us from God and we should not hesitate to receive the graces that they bring, in the appropriate times in our lives.
 
Thank you Father Don, for your information. You are of course correct. 🙂 I need to correct myself; the Sacrament of Healing was Confession; the ‘healing’ prayers given were not of the Sacrament of the Anointing, but of a blessing/healing nature.

Amen amen amen, my friends, my brothers and sisters!

Last night was an amazing night of prayer, and the Holy Spirit was deep among us. The parish church was packed beyond belief, with standing room only. The lines were long for healing and for confession. The Spirit was working so much; I cannot begin to describe the feeling in mere words, for they fall short. I know many healings and prayers were answered in a positive way; I pray that we are all open to those healings, as God’s Will. I have Faith that He heard and answered each of us in His Will for us.

I’m so blessed and honored that y’all let me pray for you, and that many of you prayed for me. Even those prayers that might have not yet been spoken, God is outside of time, and He knows your intention, and it was prayed for last night.

I don’t know that I’ll write of my personal experience, as it was ‘private’ so to speak. I will say that what I heard last night, spoken by the guest speaker/healer, I had heard in my heart earlier in the day, earlier in the month, the year and in my lifetime, in conversations I had with God in prayer. It was very moving.

God bless every one of you. <3
 
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