Sacraments of Healing
The sacraments of healing deal with the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual
aspects of our life. We recall that at the beginning of creation, God created human
beings as a unity of body, mind, spirit, and emotions. When there is a lack of balance or
when one aspect or the other is not functioning at optimal levels, it can affect the rest of
our lives. For example, a person with some major or minor physical illness may become
depressed (emotional), stop praying or believing as deeply (spiritual), and may begin to
make poor judgments (mental), thus causing greater harm. The Lord offers the
sacraments of Anointing of the Sick to care for a person physically, mentally, and
emotionally as well as the Sacrament of Penance to care for a person spiritually which
can also have a deeply peaceful emotional affect as well. We will cover these two
sacraments here.
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