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Mass with Healing Prayer

Picture"Christ Healing the Blind Man" by Eustache Le Sueur, 17th century, France
A Mass with Healing Prayer is a Mass followed by a time of prayer with a particular focus on asking God for healing.  While sometimes people refer to a "healing Mass," we should not forget that God's healing is available at every Mass, not just certain ones. At these Masses, the homily or the songs may tend to relate to healing or the activity of the Holy Spirit.  For example, at St. Mary of Sorrows on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord in 2008, the homily included teaching on Baptism and its relation to the Holy Spirit, and during the homily there on Pentecost 2008, the priest taught about what happened on Pentecost in the early Church, and how we can experience Pentecost in our own lives. In that homily the priest encouraged us to be open to the Holy Spirit every day. The singing at Mass may be lively, and people may be encouraged to clap or sing with uplifted hands. Most importantly, the priest encourages everyone to pray with great faith when receiving Holy Communion. At that moment Jesus, the Healer, is with us in the closest way. During the Eucharist, at every Mass, Jesus comes to us.  He healed people in the Bible with His touch and can do the same today.

After Mass, there may be a time where people briefly speak about experiences of healing, and a time for individual prayer ministry with the priest or others through whom God has worked with the gift of healing.  While waiting, people may pray and sing songs of praise and worship. People may also prophesy and pray in tongues. 
Sometimes people rest in the Spirit by falling gently to the floor. When one rests in the Spirit, they experience God's love in a powerful, direct way. Catchers accompany the prayer ministry team to catch anyone who might rest.  Resting in the Spirit is not necessary to receive healing, and God never forces people to do this.  However, it does happen and people who rest describe it as being immersed in God's love.  This part of the evening is clearly not the Mass, but rather a time of prayer, and the format may vary from one place to another.

The Arlington Healing Ministry also holds Masses followed by a time of individual prayer for healing.

Some homilies from previous Masses with Healing Prayers are available here.

Healing of the Family
It is important to pray for our family.  Masses are offered for the healing of the family.  We can pray for healing from disorders and diseases that follow through the generations.  This article talks about healing of the family tree with insights from Cardinal Ratzinger before he was Pope Benedict XVI.


Poem
This poem was written by a thankful heart who received healing when her son prayed for her at a Mass and Healing Service on July 21, 2014.  This poem is about God’s healing and also the simplicity and power of intercessory prayer.  She was in too much pain to leave the house, but God answered her son's prayer for her at the Mass.  During this time she noticed she did not have any more pain from a surgery just three days before.

A Gift of Healing

by Linda
July 22, 2014

In the well of pain
His presence lay,
the healing swift and sure.

Miracles and hope
fall like golden stars
through the vessel of a
gifted priest.

Unexpectedly and warm,
tender mercies
bestowed on murmured prayers.

Among the blessed, this
mother's son,
the gentlest of souls,

Opens his heart
in faith and love,
seeking balm for his mother's pain

and patiently waits as
The Holy Spirit
touches his core and
closes wounds,

sprinkling quiet healing
on those unaware.
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  • About
    • Changed Lives
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    • Worldwide Renewal
    • Mary: A Charismatic Catholic
    • Too Emotional?
    • Duquesne Weekend
    • Evangelization
    • Mission Statement
    • Contact
  • What We Do
    • Prayer Ministry
    • Healing and Deliverance Ministry
    • Life in the Spirit Seminars
    • Mass with Healing Prayer
    • Past Events
  • Holy Spirit
    • Gifts of the Holy Spirit >
      • How Are These Gifts Possilbe?
      • Discernment of Spirits
      • Encouragement
      • Healing
      • Miracles
      • Prophecy
      • Tongues
      • Word of Knowledge
      • Using the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
    • Friendship with the Holy Spirit
    • Personal Pentecost
    • Breathing in God
    • Like the Dewfall
    • We Need the Holy Spirit
  • Prayer Groups
  • Prayer
    • Listening Prayer
    • Praise and Worship
    • Pray for Our Priests
    • Pray for Our Seminarians
  • Young Adults