By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News, July 19, 2024
Joseph Pronechen is staff writer with the National Catholic Register since 2005 and before that a regular correspondent for the paper. His articles have appeared in a number of national publications including Columbia magazine, Soul, Faith and Family, Catholic Digest, Catholic Exchange, and Marian Helper. …
Trusting the Divine Physician, Father Boniface Hicks hopes to offer a ‘a real personal encounter that reaches the heart…’
The “Revival Session” on Friday evening during the National Eucharistic Congress offers pilgrims the opportunity to unite their own suffering with the wounds of Christ. “There will be prayers of healing and reparation,” said Benedictine Father Boniface Hicks.
Father Hicks has done similar kinds of guided meditations and prayers for healing. But,” he told the Register, “this is unique, composed for this occasion just in collaboration with the organizers of Eucharistic Congress.”
Ahead of the service, attendees will hear Sister Josephine Garrett of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth speak about our brokenness as people and as a Church, yet how Jesus is the Divine Physician who wants to heal and renew us. ….