Healing Services

If we are honest with ourselves we recognize that we are wounded and we seek healing. Our inner selves have been wounded or broken. Our home lives may include abuse or neglect, or lack affirming conversation.  And certainly our city, nation, and world need the healing power of God.

Beginning Sunday, September 28th we will begin monthly healing services here at Risen Savior.  These services are not Mass, but rather a prayer opportunity to be healed.

This will be a new experience in prayer for our parish.   These monthly prayer services will take us into the some of the deepest and therefore most uncomfortable places in our soul.  Our comfort culture is a restless, noisy and agitated environment. Our homes and hearts are driven by schedules, commitments, events, school, sports, and even church events.   Anxiety, depression, and anger can fill our days. Our culture can confuse fixing with healing.  Healing is a prayer skill.  It is a daily out-of-the-way place for us to journey.

This first of the healing services will focus on the healing of memories.   Memories can be either blessings or curses. The healing of memories service is a liturgy of the Word which will lead us into our deeper self. This service takes us through a guided meditation into our past.  We all carry memories beyond what words can identify and those memories shape us.  When Jesus says “do in memory of me”, He is talking about everything we do—literally, everything.  

The guided meditation of this first healing prayer service begins with what most of us would even call pre-memory with the pre-verbal time of conception, the womb, birth and early infancy. We have memories even before we remember.  Trauma can cause and block memory. Blessing can cause and build memory. We all carry much within.

Our souls cannot NOT heal.  The spiritual life unfolds whether we try to make it happen or not.  It is not so much saying prayer as being prayer. Every time we gather in church or at home or at work or wherever, we are prayer. Prayers are not what we do; prayers are who we are. Healing prayers make us more Christ-like. The wounded soul seeks His remedy.

Hopefully you will hear the call to some deeper prayer in these monthly services of healing.  To be hospitable we need to welcome and heal the wounded.   The hurt of our world is great.  The Risen Savior is on duty.