For my dearest friends in Christ, for my dearest family members in Christ Jesus, I have devoted all of you who are suffering in Christ physical pain without relief, please know my every prayer and every rosary along with every Eucharist is received in honor of your special intention for great healing. I love you all. Our precious daughter, our dearest church family members neither of you are alone in your suffering. We are all in this together as a family. I did not want this night to pass without offering you a spiritual benediction of song and prayer and may it be heard by you and may the words become the healing balm you need in this moment. Suffering once aligned with Christs is to remember you are not suffering in vain, we are a people of great faith, great hope, and great love. Our compassion and our prayers are off the charts! God knows this and sees this everyday in his faithful followers. Thank you for being one of them. Thank you for entrusting me in this task of great prayer to help you come through your suffering not feeling alone but feeling empowered by the love of God living in all of us. This is in my opinion a very difficult time to be suffering, the world is so upside down in so many ways, our security has been removed, taken away from us, and feel the weight of our suffering ever more so. But our Lord sees this situation down here on earth, and he will bring forth great hope, great love, great healing and service of his people where it is needed the most. Let us never forget the Lord and lets ask him to intercede for our health moving forward. In that trust we may receive the great miracle of transitioning from illness to stability and from stability to miraculous healing. We must be a people of hope. Because when we hope in what is good, what is pure, what is needed, and we pray to Jesus about our situation, we know our request never falls on deaf ears, they fall on the lap of our Lord, and sometimes we have to wait a very long time for our answers, and our healing is never instantaneous, it is always long, labored, and draining. But we give all of that suffering on a platter to our Lord, for that dish is just too heavy for us to carry and only our Lord can lift that platter and place it on the altar of great sacrifice. And we cannot take that plate back, we give it to our Lord and pray unceasingly for the remedy to jump start the healing process we will need to move out of the dull drums into days full of hope, shifting the gears in our minds and in our hearts so that we can come out of our situation stronger, more hopeful, and more understanding of what God really wants from my life. There is a lot to be gained out of suffering. Some how we have to change the way we look at it. Suffering has its purpose. There is a lesson to be learned in our suffering. Don't be afraid to learn from the lesson our Lord is trying to teach you. In the end we are drawn ever closer to our God, and we become a changed people. No longer fighting God and the process, but accepting what is happening to us and calling on a higher power to help us come out of it in a powerful new way. I believe Christ wants to change us. One person at a time, within our individual suffering, one experience at a time. But sometimes our suffering overwhelms us to no degree. And it is in those moments we must collapse in our Lords arms, for that rest in Him sometimes is the only answer. So As I pray and sing to you the Benediction hymn of the Blessed Sacrament, allow the holy spirit to come over you and refresh you with his love. With his healing grace, allow him into your soul, your spirit, so that he can heal your body, amen.
