Is Lent a time of healing for you?

In the Syriac Christian tradition the healing power of Christ is presented to the faithful, by the Church, by knowing that the believing community of faith, is the Lord's bride and our mother. We know this experientially through the sacramental ministries of the priesthood. Saint Ephrem prays to Christ crucified and risen:

With three medicines

You have cured our sickness;

Humanity was weak, suffering and failing;

You have strengthened it by you blessed bread,

You have consoled it with your sober wine,

And You have given it joy with your anointing.

Lent is the springtime of our healing in mind, body and soul. Lent is a time to have the great reversal happen: from weakness to strength, from sickness to health, from sinfulness to a life of grace. This is all possible in the confession of sins, the worthy reception of the Holy Eucharist, and the luscious anointing of the Holy Spirit pour out over us.