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10 Sources of Healing

There are more than 10 Sources of Healings and Blessings in the Catholic Church. Therefore please make use of these 10 sources frequently.

  1. God – Ex. 15:26 – I am the God who heals you. Medicine might fail but God never fails – One woman who had been suffering for 12 years of bleeding, though she spent all her money, did not receive any healing but Jesus healed her (Lk. 8:43-44).

  2. The Word of God heals all diseases – Ps. 107:20.

  3. Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament heals the sick (CCC. 1509).“Heal the sick … the Church has received this charge from the Lord and strives to carry it out by taking care of the sick as well as by accompanying them with her prayer of intercession. She believes in the life-giving presence of Christ, the physician of souls and bodies. This presence is particularly active through the sacraments, and in an altogether special way through the Eucharist, the bread that gives eternal life and that St. Paul suggests is connected with bodily health”.

  4. Some persons function as Healers (CCC 1508). “The Holy Spirit gives to some a special charism of healing,  so as to make manifest the power of the grace of the risen Lord. But even the most intense prayers do not always obtain the healing of all illnesses. Thus St. Paul must have learnt from the Lord that “my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness,” and that the sufferings endured could mean that “in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his Body, that is, the Church.”

  5. Saints, Relics and blessed objects have the power to heal the sick (LG. 11). Novena prayers and intercession to saints also have the power to heal the sick.

  6. The intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary especially in Velankanni, Lourdes and other Marian centers around the world are sources of healing. The Marian Rosary also heals many.

  7. Pilgrim centers and certain other selective places also share the healing power of God  (e.g. Jn. 5- Pool at Bethesda etc).

  8. Medicine, Doctors, surgery etc too heal (Sir. 38: 1-14).

  9. Our prayers and acts of faith have the power to heal our diseases. “Jesus prayed over him and applied saliva, water and mud to heal the sick and asked him to go wash.” The blind man was healed after doing all these acts (Mk. 8:22-24).

  10. All 7 Sacraments especially the Confession and Eucharist have the power to heal almost all diseases. CCCc. 295 says   that confession and last sacraments are sacraments of healings.

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