In the New Testament, the writer James makes a thrilling promise: "Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in ...

Trust that when you lift your prayer with sincere faith, God's power works miracles in the midst of adversity.

May you carry her smile to everyone! To conclude, I wish to join in the prayer of the pilgrims and the sick, and to pray with you a passage from the prayer to Mary that has been proposed for this ...

I still believe almost 50 years later that my father was divinely healed. I was there. I saw it. But I also believe that what happened to him was a once-in-a-thousand-prayers miracle. A miracle of ...

The sick person answers "Amen." All who wish to do so receive Communion in the usual way. After a time of silence, the minister says the following or another prayer: Viaticum is the sacrament of ...

Be messengers and builders of hope” for “a new evangelizing season in the Church, which is sent to revive hope in a world over which dark shadows loom;” “be harbingers of a new humanity in a world ...

Rashi, explaining the view of Rabbi Nehemiah in the Talmud [1] that they spontaneously sang the song together, says that the Holy Spirit rested on them and miraculously the same words came into their ...

How is your patience today? Pastor Warren Keating tells of a Sunday morning when he had a bad cold. He was coughing, sneezing, blowing his nose, and as he readily admits, “I should have stayed ...

My question for you is my prayer list. It just keeps growing, and I have had a difficult time reading my list and praying for ...

A Catholic perspective on ghost stories reveals why some apparitions may be souls in Purgatory — and why the Church urges us to pray for them.