by Jennie Murphy | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog Articles
I do not often administer the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, since I have been involved in youth ministry for years. However, it has played a certain role in my formation as a Jesuit and here I let three significant episodes emerge. The first goes back to the...
by Jennie Murphy | Jul 11, 2024 | Blog Articles
Before equivocation or sin, what makes us profoundly human and similar is the experience of pain and illness. An experience that becomes the extreme limit of a journey that takes us beyond our comprehension, but leads to the embrace of God! My experience as a man and...
by Jennie Murphy | Jul 5, 2024 | Blog Articles
Join the Holy Father in praying for the pastoral care of the sick. We pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is conferred to those who receive it and their loved ones the power of the Lord and become ever more a visible sign of compassion and hope for...
by Jennie Murphy | Jul 3, 2024 | Blog Articles
During the month of July, Pope Francis invites us to pray for our brothers and sisters who receive the Anointing of the Sick. In The Pope Video, produced by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, we learn what the Anointing of the Sick means and about who can receive...
by Jennie Murphy | Jul 3, 2024 | Blog Articles, Prayer of the Month
All-merciful Father, What a great mystery, the fragility of the body, the sickness that weakens us! How often we want to escape from this pain because we do not want to suffer or see suffering! We know that nothing makes sense without you, and that everything can be...
by Fr. Edward Looney | Jul 3, 2024 | Blog Articles
I am a priest and a pastor of a parish. One of the things that means is that I anoint a lot of people. Parishioners who are having surgery might ask me to anoint them after a Sunday Mass. A person recently diagnosed with cancer, asks to be anointed. Family members...
