WOV #738, "Healer of Our Every Ill"
Devotion
It is a gift for us to follow Christ by being healers. When we tend to the needs of those who are in our everyday life, we act out of the compassion that Christ has placed in our hearts. This peace that calms our fears is beyond our understanding, yet available for us to share.
I do not often view myself as a healer. Yet I -- and all followers of the one who binds our wounds and makes us whole -- am given this gift to share.
Prayer
Lord, we pray in the words of St. Teresa of Avila:
Christ has no body but mine, no hands but mine, no feet but mine.
Mine are the eyes through which are to look out Christ's compassion for the world.
Mine are the feet with which he is to go about doing good.
Mine are the hands which he is to bless now. Amen.