Praying Each Day in May

[MajestyJo]

On this day in 1982 Pope John Paul II
started his Visit to Great Britain. Later in
the day he met many sick and disabled
people and gave them the Sacrament of
the Sick. Only a year after being shot and
seriously wounded, he spoke to those
who were ill or disabled:

“I myself have had a share in suffering,
and I have known the physical weakness
that comes with injury and sickness. It is
precisely because I have experienced suffering
that I am able to affirm with evergreater
conviction that nothing at all can
ever separate us from the love of God.

“Dear friends, there is no force or power that
can block God’s love for you. Sickness and
suffering seem to contradict all that is worthy,
all that is desired. And yet no disease,
no injury, no infirmity can ever deprive you
of your dignity as children of God.

“We often find in the Gospels the loving
bond of affection between Jesus and the
sick or disabled. We believe in Christ’s healing
love, and we reaffirm that nothing will
separate us from that love. Surely Jesus
wishes to say: ‘Be clean; be healed; be
strong; be saved.’ “


Let us pray:
Lord Jesus, we read in the gospel
that you spoke individually
to many people and said:
“Be cured”; Lk 513
“Get up and walk”; Lk 524
“What do you want me to do for you?”
Mt 2032
“Of course I want to cure you: be healed”;
Mt 83
“Let what you want be done for you”;
Mt 929
“Receive your sight”; Lk 1842
“Receive back your hearing”; Mk 734
“Young man, arise”; Lk 715
“Go, your son will live”; Jn 450
“Go, your faith has saved you.” Mk 1052
Knowing that you are present
in our midst,
we ask you today
to touch each one of us individually
and bring us your healing
of body, mind and spirit. Amen.