The bishop noted, though, that the ultimate healing is sometimes death. He received the anointing of the sick, and prayer, and the surgeon found only a pea-sized tumour that did not penetrate the brain. His own dentist was diagnosed with a brain tumour the size of a grapefruit he would die without surgery and might die, or be left in a vegetative state, even with surgery. “It’s not the sacrament of the dying, it’s not the last rites, it’s the sacrament of the healing of the sick,” he said. “We need to step out and expect that God is going to do mighty deeds in our lives because of the Eucharist.”Īs for anointing of the sick, we can look for healing there too. The liturgy of the Eucharist contains many references to mercy, he said: “Lord have mercy” at the beginning, and “Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us,” and “speak but the word and my soul will be healed” just before Communion. We need to give God permission to uproot our sins, and when we go to confession we should ask the priest to pray that God will heal us in the core of our sins. If we don’t approach it as wholeheartedly as we should, he said, confession can be like cutting weeds-the weeds will grow back again. Mercy continues in the Eucharist, in the sacrament of reconciliation, and in the anointing of the sick. God’s mercy begins in baptism, Bishop Jacobs said we are born alienated from God, and in baptism we are united with Him. To the extent you are open to mercy for others, to that extent you receive mercy from God.” We want mercy on our terms-we have to receive it on His terms. “God doesn’t refuse us His mercy-we refuse to accept His mercy. “God does not show mercy and healing to those who are in rebellion, to those who refuse to show mercy for others,” Bishop Jacobs said. If we refuse, we’re refusing God’s mercy for ourselves as well.
Of course, we’re supposed to do something with that mercy we’ve received. All we have to do is pronounce that word from the heart-‘Father, I need You-and He’ll forgive you, no matter what you’ve done.” Why are you waiting? No matter how far we feel from God, the Father is waiting.
“The Father is waiting with open arms for you to come back. So there’s no reason for us to stay away from confession for years, the way some fallen-away Catholics do. He accepts the insult of his son effectively wishing him dead, by claiming his inheritance early then he spends his time waiting for him to come back from throwing the inheritance away on a life of sin, runs to him and kisses him, and throws a feast for him.
The conference returned to Broadway Church, a Pentecostal church approved for Catholic events, after three years in other locations.īishop Jacobs said God is like the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32), which he said should really be called the parable of the foolish father, because the father’s generosity goes far beyond common sense. and Vancouver Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services. Margarett Schlientz, of Wisconsin, whose ministry combines theology and psychiatry, were featured speakers at the conference, jointly sponsored by Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services of B.C. national service committee for the Catholic charismatic renewal, and Dr. “All is mercy, because we deserve none of the gifts God gives us.”īishop Jacobs, of Louisiana, chair of the U.S. “What God does not give us is justice, because if He gave us justice, none of us would have a chance. “He gave us what we don’t deserve, and that is forgiveness, that is healing, that is mercy,” Bishop Jacobs said. But God has given us mercy instead of justice. If God hadn’t forgiven our sins, His justice would have annihilated the world, Bishop Sam Jacobs told the provincial Catholic charismatic conference in Vancouver. How do we know God is merciful? Well, for one thing, because the world still exists.
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