Obstacle to the grace of healing

Obstacle to the grace of healing

Discernment

One of the dangers of the healing ministry is to place one’s trust in this or that person who, it would seem, has a particular power of healing. This is a serious error in the end, for Jesus alone is the health of the sick.

One must never set one’s eyes on the person who has the gift of healing. It is Jesus who has all the power; men are only channels of his grace. Even when medicine obtains a healing for us, God is there acting through science.

Excerpt from no. 4, The charism of healing, Petits Traités spirituels, Pneumathèque, pp. 15 and 16

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Fr. Lucien Roy, S.J., The Virgin Mary in the Ignatian experience, in Les Cahiers de spiritualité ignatienne, no. 29, Jan.–March 1984, p. 39