The healing ministry is for everyone; we all need healing in some way. Through the healing ministry, Jesus Christ meets us at our point of need. Every form of suffering can be helped in some way through this ministry.
The Gospel of the Kingdom of God is the good news of healing which Jesus Christ proclaimed for individuals, communities and for the world. He implied as much when he said “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners” (Mark 2:17). His healing miracles were demonstrations of the effects of God’s kingdom breaking through into this world.
So, too, the Church’s ministry can also be described as one of healing – the healing of ourselves, and of our relationships with God, with one another and with our environment. That is why we hear phrases such as “the healing of society” or “the healing of our divisions”.
The ministry of healing is the ministry of prayer, word, sacrament and pastoral care by which the Church acts as a channel of Christ’s healing grace to give people that fullness of life that he intends for them
In this parish we
The Gospel of the Kingdom of God is the good news of healing which Jesus Christ proclaimed for individuals, communities and for the world. He implied as much when he said “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners” (Mark 2:17). His healing miracles were demonstrations of the effects of God’s kingdom breaking through into this world.
So, too, the Church’s ministry can also be described as one of healing – the healing of ourselves, and of our relationships with God, with one another and with our environment. That is why we hear phrases such as “the healing of society” or “the healing of our divisions”.
The ministry of healing is the ministry of prayer, word, sacrament and pastoral care by which the Church acts as a channel of Christ’s healing grace to give people that fullness of life that he intends for them
In this parish we
- visit people ill at home or in hospital
- have prayers for the sick in our services
- celebrate the sacrament of Healing through Prayer, laying on of hands and Anointing.
- Take Holy Communion to the very elderly housebound and to those unable to get to church.