Heal

We are healed before we enter heaven He was a well-loved, elderly priest in who fell and injured himself very badly. In fact, it was to be a fatal injury. He had been severely afflicted with scoliosis for most of his life and while he was about 5’10” in height, with his back disfigured the way it was he probably stood about 5’0”. In fact, he was so bent over that when he consecrated the Eucharist, he held it up over his head but was unable to look upon it while doing so. Though retired as a priest, he volunteered his time at a hospital for many years and was well loved by the staff. He was especially good friends with the hospital Chaplin, who was a nurse and an ordained pastor at her church. The Chaplin (who is a personal friend of mine) has a very special gift. When God allows it, she can see the angels and the saints. Since she’d formed a very close relationship with the priest and since she was… Read More »Post #5

We are body AND soul Although we don’t see it, a sick soul can cause a sick body. The amount of people who ask me for prayer for physical issues that actually have a spiritual component to them is incredible. What do I mean by this? Well, we are made of body and spirit and while we cannot see our spirit with our physical eyes, we know it is there. This why a sick body can cause a sick soul and why a sick soul can lead to a sick body. “But John” people say “how can you say that? There’s no physical evidence or proof that a soul exists!” Well, just because we can’t see feel or touch something does not mean it doesn’t exist. There are things that we know to exist that are completely immaterial. “That’s impossible!” people say. Oh really? How about gravity? Gravity is immaterial, yet no one would deny that it has great effect on us. Interestingly, although we can measure its effect on material things, we can’t measure… Read More »Post #3