Healing of the Family
 (by Fr. Michael Barry, SSCC)

Basic Truths

The Mass is the most powerful prayer that has been given to us by Jesus Himself.

• “Deliverance from evil” – Through the Lord’s Prayer we ask the Lord to free both the living and the dead from any bondage to evil.

Every family has defects, diseases and disgrace.  Every family is in need of healing.  Even Jesus’ own family.  (Matthew 1:2-16)

• We are asking that the blood of Christ in the communion wine cleanse the blood lines of the living and the dead of all that blocks healthy life, especially breaking any hereditary seals and curses and by casting out any evil spirits; we thus obey Jesus’ injunction (Mark 16:17-18) not only to heal, but to cast out the evil one.

We were born and belong to the best of all possible families.  This is the Wisdom of God.

• We are asking the Lord to unite our baptismal waters with the baptismal waters of our past generations and to join these baptismal waters to the Water of the side of Jesus Christ that came out when He was hanging on the Cross.  And to let all these torrents of water and His Precious Blood wash our past generations, our present and the future generations, and to remove all the negative forces and replace them with God’s Love so that our present generations and the future generations will proclaim the word of God.