The Church is a Hospital

It is a hospital for the spirit

where the Great Physician

works tirelessly to heal and

nourish the sick and dying.

The priest is his assistant

and helps give the medicines

and prescriptions for change:

Holy wine, oil, and water,

read the Holy Scriptures, pray 

without ceasing, confess and 

forgive, always and everywhere.

The “medicine of immortality”

is there spooned from a chalice
says St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch
his voice echoing down from

the 1st century to comfort us

in our modern malaise. 

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