Healing

… sent me
To bring the glad tidings to the poor,
To proclaim to the prisoners the liberation
And to the blind the sight;
To set the oppressed at liberty,
To proclaim the Lord’s year of grace.

Luke 4:18-19

From the earliest years of its history, the Community has exercised charisms of healing, especially for inner and spiritual healing.

So many brothers and sisters suffering for physical and spiritual reasons approached the Community to seek – before anything else – listening and understanding. Recognizing in them those “littlest brothers and sisters“(Matthew 25:31-45) with whom Jesus had said he identified himself, the Community initiated the Ministry of Consolation, also known as the Ministry of Healing and Deliverance. Both in the availability offered weekly and in the residential healing seminars organized by the Community, a large number of people were able to encounter Jesus, alive, who, entering into their personal history worked healing, deliverance, and conversion. Those who give their time in this ministerial activity approach the wounded heart of man with respect and tenderness, aware that they themselves are “wounded healers,” picked up by a Samaritan himself on the road to Jericho.