Up to this point one has seen healing through: the vocation of suffering, the call to be saved, to be in communion, interior freedom, living in the present moment, relying in hope, resting in Eucharistic amazement, and in love. Healing much like conversion is a daily fiat, daily yes. One must seek healing on earth to bind one over until that final day when one is in heaven; moreover, heaven is the eternal healing.
Daily healing is a daily dose of prayer: “Lord I am nothing without you, and you Lord are the cause of all joy and healing in my life.” It is a daily “yes Lord, you can heal me if you chose to”. Seeking this healing is best done through the Sacraments of Penance and Eucharist. Kathleen Beckman author of Rekindle Eucharistic Amazement shares, “Allow me, like Peter at the end of the Eucharistic discourse in John’s Gospel, to say once more to Christ, in the name of the whole Church, and in the name of each one of you : ‘Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.’(Jn. 6:68)” (131). The very question “Lord to whom we shall go?” points one directly to Christ; it points one to the Eucharist. Beckman adds, “Christ transfigured him into his image so thoroughly that we experienced Christ in our midst” (131). Christ gives Himself so that all may share in Him. Daily healing is then the most fascinating experience when practiced, and experienced.
Realizing that some of the hurts, pains, and illnesses may never be truly healed on earth, one must wait in anticipation of heaven. Beckman writes, “The Catechism reminds us that sometimes even the most intense prayers do not obtain the healing of all illnesses… All men suffer on earth in a variety of ways… Communion with God heals us always at some level” (135). One can see that God chooses when he wills the healing to take place.
Before one can enter in to heaven one must be purified of all impurities. Pope Benedict XVI writes in his Encyclical letter Spe Salvi (Saved in Hope), “All that we build during our lives can prove to be mere straw, pure bluster, and it collapses. Yet in the pain of this encounter, when the impurity and sickness of our lives become evident to us, there lies salvation. His gaze, the touch of his heart heals us through an undeniably painful transformation ‘as through fire’. But it is a blessed pain, in which the holy power of his love sears through us like a flame, enabling us to become totally ourselves and thus totally of God” (47). Benedict’s words are so striking to the heart. His explanation of the transformation of the heart, the cleansing of heart, and healing of the heart is so beautiful.
This final paper, the rapping up of all that I have learned and strive to obtain has made my heart more at peace. To know that I am not alone in this journey, that there are brothers and sisters who at the deepest depths are in the same mess I am. I know that I need Jesus daily, that I am nothing without Him, I am everything with Him, and I am everything to Him. That in times that all I see junk in me, I just need to look at Him and let Him look back and love me. There are days that I will be strong, and days that I will be weak. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13). Lord thank you for this time of grace, joy, peace, and healing. Protect me in my daily battles and daily walk. Be my strength, joy, peace and love. Mother Mary love me as you loved Christ, intercede for me , as I give myself to you so that I may listen to your Son as He tells me what to do. Holy Spirit breath on me that I may be on fire and alive. Amen.
Daily healing is a daily dose of prayer: “Lord I am nothing without you, and you Lord are the cause of all joy and healing in my life.” It is a daily “yes Lord, you can heal me if you chose to”. Seeking this healing is best done through the Sacraments of Penance and Eucharist. Kathleen Beckman author of Rekindle Eucharistic Amazement shares, “Allow me, like Peter at the end of the Eucharistic discourse in John’s Gospel, to say once more to Christ, in the name of the whole Church, and in the name of each one of you : ‘Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.’(Jn. 6:68)” (131). The very question “Lord to whom we shall go?” points one directly to Christ; it points one to the Eucharist. Beckman adds, “Christ transfigured him into his image so thoroughly that we experienced Christ in our midst” (131). Christ gives Himself so that all may share in Him. Daily healing is then the most fascinating experience when practiced, and experienced.
Realizing that some of the hurts, pains, and illnesses may never be truly healed on earth, one must wait in anticipation of heaven. Beckman writes, “The Catechism reminds us that sometimes even the most intense prayers do not obtain the healing of all illnesses… All men suffer on earth in a variety of ways… Communion with God heals us always at some level” (135). One can see that God chooses when he wills the healing to take place.
This final paper, the rapping up of all that I have learned and strive to obtain has made my heart more at peace. To know that I am not alone in this journey, that there are brothers and sisters who at the deepest depths are in the same mess I am. I know that I need Jesus daily, that I am nothing without Him, I am everything with Him, and I am everything to Him. That in times that all I see junk in me, I just need to look at Him and let Him look back and love me. There are days that I will be strong, and days that I will be weak. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13). Lord thank you for this time of grace, joy, peace, and healing. Protect me in my daily battles and daily walk. Be my strength, joy, peace and love. Mother Mary love me as you loved Christ, intercede for me , as I give myself to you so that I may listen to your Son as He tells me what to do. Holy Spirit breath on me that I may be on fire and alive. Amen.
