Healing of the Family

Basic Truths:

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

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“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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Procedure: These steps are necessary before you go to Stage 1

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Step 1: Construct a family tree beginning with self and trace backwards on both levels, i.e. vertical and horizontal. After each person, identify some specific quality (brokenness) associated with that person.  To do this you must do your paper work.  Write it all down on paper so that you may be able to see it more clearly.

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Step 2:Use some of the following areas and see if they apply to your family:

• Broken Relationships (divorce, loners, family not speaking to each other, homosexuality, adultery)

• Sexual Excesses (molestation, abuse, adultery, etc.)

• Violent Behavior (wife/husband beating, family anger, hate, fighting-excessive)

• Addiction (alcoholic, pornography, gambling, over-eating, other)

• Deception (lies in the family over serious things, e.g., land, property, money, secrets, shame, etc.)

• Deaths (violent, sudden, accidental, suicidal, unmourned deaths, war deaths, other)

• Abortions (miscarriages)

• Curses or False Vows and Promises

• Occult (witchcraft, black magic, ouija boards, horoscopes, curanderos, other)

• Secrets

• Predominant Diseases

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Step 3:This is one of the most important steps. In this step you identify persons and patterns. 

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It is very important that you discover one or two predominant patterns in your family tree. Example:  a pattern could be divorce in your generation (brothers or sisters), past generations (mother, father) and/or your children. Divorce is with mother, daughter and granddaughter. Or, deaths happened to several brothers or father, uncle, son. That is how you establish a pattern. A pattern occurs when it happens at least three times.Next identify unforgiveness. Identify unforgiveness, especially specific persons that need to be forgiven or asked for forgiveness.

 

Stage I - The MassWhen you have completed step 1-3, then you would request a Mass to be offered for the specific patterns (no more than three) that your search has revealed.  There are seven times during the Mass in which we focus on the Family Tree.

1. At the beginning:  We pray for forgiveness and forgive those who have offended us.  Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is an act of the will.

2. At the prayer of the faithful: We pray for the breaking of curses and bondages in the family.

3. At the Offertory: We pray for the healing of the specific patterns that you have identified.

4. At the consecration:  We pray silently before the consecrated Lord for the healing of my family tree.

5. At the remembrance of the dead: We release all the departed members of our family into the fullness of God’s love. We forgive them and ask their forgiveness for anything between us. And we want us all to be in the one family of God there and hereafter.

6. After communion:  We pray the unity of our common adoption as God’s children especially through the Mass and sacraments. (Baptismal waters prayer).

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Wherever possible each member of the family is anointed and prayed over. Stage II Usually within 3-5 days the Lord will show us what is being healed.  This is a “leading” from the Lord and should open us to more prayer, fasting and even more masses.  The Lord is now showing us what needs to be exposed to further healing.Stage IIIConsecrate your family and home to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.