Healing Mass/Anointing of the Sick

COME AND PRAY WITH YOUR COMMUNITY

The Healing Mass on Wednesday, November 3, at 5:30pm is a communal Mass.  The Sacrament will take place during the service.

Please, if you are not receiving the sacrament, come and pray for your brothers and sisters at Mass.

Jesus showed compassion toward the sick and suffering. The sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick extends God's grace of spiritual strength, peace, and courage to overcome the difficulties that go with facing a serious health challenge.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK

Anointing of the Sick is a sacrament administered to the faithful who are suffering from illness, facing serious surgery, or who are frail or elderly. The Catechism teaches that "the first glance of this sacrament is one of strengthening, peace, and courage to overcome the difficulties that go with the condition of physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual illness, anyone about to have surgery, of the frailty of old age." Yes, as with all sacraments, the Anointing of the Sick is a vehicle for God's grace that strengthens up spiritually. As such, "this assistance from the Lord by the power of His Spirit is meant to lead the sick person to healing of the soul, but also of the body if such is God's will" (CCC, 1520).