This year, the Mass for the sick will be held at the Cathedral, Sunday, April 19, 2009, Sunday of Divine Mercy, 14 h.
Adapted to different life circumstances, all the sacraments are signs that God gives us to tell us and give us his love, his presence, his strength to bring us into his Hi and we allow to become witnesses ... And the disease, more or less serious, is located on any path of life at one time or another. As a test, as a "passage" difficult, sometimes even makes us think of the great passage which is on the horizon of all life ...
The anointing of the sick is not just for dying . Many would benefit, including those suffering from diseases long and very painful, although there are hopeful that the medicine heal. Irreversible physical disability caused by an accident is also a spiritual event that the sacrament could help to carry. Similarly, the prospect of a risky operation ... It is not a question of age. A young person may feel the disease live in the flesh and mark his life dangerously. When it comes to old age, there may be steps, thresholds, where the strengths and diminish the autonomy "dangerously" ... In the recent past, it was certainly wrong to wait almost a danger of immediate death to think this sacrament.
" If one of you is in pain, he prays.
If someone is in joy, he sings the Lord.
If one of you is ill, that it calls those who work in the Church the elders:
they pray over him after giving him an anointing oil in the name of the Lord.
This inspired by prayer of faith shall save the sick
the Lord shall raise him and, if he have committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Acknowledge your sins before each other,
and pray for each other to be healed,
because the prayer of a righteous acts with great force. "
Epistle of St. Jacques from 5.13 to 16
Here are the words that accompany the anointing on the forehead and hands of the sick with holy oil blessed the Bishop during the Chrism Mass each year
"Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his great goodness you
comforted by the grace of the Holy Spirit.
So who frees you from sin, he saves you and relieve you. "
disease, old age, disability, often isolate by making part of society. And in our Christian communities, What place do we really ... all those people who have little means of being heard? What bonds of communion are held or woven with them? All faculty members are useful in the life of all ...!
The feeling of being dependent or, simply, no longer interest anyone is one of suffering patients. How do we show that we love them, they matter to us and we rely on them? The whole Church must be "sacrament," speaking true sign of love of God our Savior, serving the sick and all ...
Where possible, do we give them a personal prayer intention or about the mission of the Church? The Church has need of faith, hope and love of its members who suffer as she needs the prayer of the contemplative, the apostolate of the Missionaries of service of those who are given to their brothers.
The Eucharist Forgiveness, the sacrament of the sick, all three are especially useful to our brothers sick ... "It is truly unfortunate that many patients are deprived of their graces through the timidity of the healthy ... The anointing of the sick is probably the most ignored of all the sacraments ... This sacrament is reminiscent of the grace of Lourdes: Few patients healed back, most find hope. " (Bishop Perrier, Bishop of Lourdes).
In a simple family room or in a hospice, regardless of where the sacrament is celebrated, the Church is always present. The
communal celebration of anointing of the sick enables all those involved - those who receive it, relatives and congregation - to celebrate the compassionate love of Christ and His Church to those who suffer. It strengthens and renews the way a community lives with the sick. It gives everyone the opportunity to reflect on its fragility and its relationship with the One réapprofondir which it takes its strength and life.
Like any sacrament, anointing of the sick building the Church, unites all the faithful in faith to the same Lord, who reveals himself present among them. Peace between them turns into thanksgiving and tastes like the world to come.
The anointing of the sick is not just for dying . Many would benefit, including those suffering from diseases long and very painful, although there are hopeful that the medicine heal. Irreversible physical disability caused by an accident is also a spiritual event that the sacrament could help to carry. Similarly, the prospect of a risky operation ... It is not a question of age. A young person may feel the disease live in the flesh and mark his life dangerously. When it comes to old age, there may be steps, thresholds, where the strengths and diminish the autonomy "dangerously" ... In the recent past, it was certainly wrong to wait almost a danger of immediate death to think this sacrament.
" If one of you is in pain, he prays.
If someone is in joy, he sings the Lord.
If one of you is ill, that it calls those who work in the Church the elders:
they pray over him after giving him an anointing oil in the name of the Lord.
This inspired by prayer of faith shall save the sick
the Lord shall raise him and, if he have committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Acknowledge your sins before each other,
and pray for each other to be healed,
because the prayer of a righteous acts with great force. "
Epistle of St. Jacques from 5.13 to 16
Here are the words that accompany the anointing on the forehead and hands of the sick with holy oil blessed the Bishop during the Chrism Mass each year
"Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his great goodness you
comforted by the grace of the Holy Spirit.
So who frees you from sin, he saves you and relieve you. "
disease, old age, disability, often isolate by making part of society. And in our Christian communities, What place do we really ... all those people who have little means of being heard? What bonds of communion are held or woven with them? All faculty members are useful in the life of all ...!
The feeling of being dependent or, simply, no longer interest anyone is one of suffering patients. How do we show that we love them, they matter to us and we rely on them? The whole Church must be "sacrament," speaking true sign of love of God our Savior, serving the sick and all ...
Where possible, do we give them a personal prayer intention or about the mission of the Church? The Church has need of faith, hope and love of its members who suffer as she needs the prayer of the contemplative, the apostolate of the Missionaries of service of those who are given to their brothers.
The Eucharist Forgiveness, the sacrament of the sick, all three are especially useful to our brothers sick ... "It is truly unfortunate that many patients are deprived of their graces through the timidity of the healthy ... The anointing of the sick is probably the most ignored of all the sacraments ... This sacrament is reminiscent of the grace of Lourdes: Few patients healed back, most find hope. " (Bishop Perrier, Bishop of Lourdes).
In a simple family room or in a hospice, regardless of where the sacrament is celebrated, the Church is always present. The
communal celebration of anointing of the sick enables all those involved - those who receive it, relatives and congregation - to celebrate the compassionate love of Christ and His Church to those who suffer. It strengthens and renews the way a community lives with the sick. It gives everyone the opportunity to reflect on its fragility and its relationship with the One réapprofondir which it takes its strength and life.
Like any sacrament, anointing of the sick building the Church, unites all the faithful in faith to the same Lord, who reveals himself present among them. Peace between them turns into thanksgiving and tastes like the world to come.
(Source Port Saint-Nicolas)
Masses on Sunday of Divine Mercy will be held at 15h (Mass early Saturday), 6, 9 and 18:30.
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