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    Jesus came to heal the whole person, body and soul.
  • Events for Healing & Prayer at St. Theresa & in the area

    • Healing Service at The Lazarus Center for Healing
      Wednesday, May 21, 6:00 PM
      Healing Service at The Lazarus Center for Healing
      As we don't receive updates of Healing Service hour/date changes, please visit their website to verify Healing Service information. The Lazarus Center for Healing is the shrine for healing in the Archdiocese of Boston. It is located in Wakefield, MA. [Click here] for more information.
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    • Afternoon Healing Service at The Lazarus Center for Healing
      Friday, June 6, 2:00 PM
      Afternoon Healing Service at The Lazarus Center for Healing
      As we don't receive updates of Healing Service changes, please visit their website to verify Healing Service information. The Lazarus Center for Healing is the shrine for healing in the Archdiocese of Boston. It is located in Wakefield, MA. [Click here] for more information.
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    • Healing Service at The Lazarus Center for Healing
      Wednesday, June 18, 6:00 PM
      Healing Service at The Lazarus Center for Healing
      As we don't receive updates of Healing Service hour/date changes, please visit their website to verify Healing Service information. The Lazarus Center for Healing is the shrine for healing in the Archdiocese of Boston. It is located in Wakefield, MA. [Click here] for more information.
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    • Afternoon Healing Service at The Lazarus Center for Healing
      Friday, July 4, 2:00 PM
      Afternoon Healing Service at The Lazarus Center for Healing
      As we don't receive updates of Healing Service changes, please visit their website to verify Healing Service information. The Lazarus Center for Healing is the shrine for healing in the Archdiocese of Boston. It is located in Wakefield, MA. [Click here] for more information.
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    • Confession Times

      • Saturday: 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
      You can also call the office and make an appointment for confession with Father Brian or Father Anda. (978) 664-3412 The confession room is located by the music area in the church.
    • Click here to go to our Confession page to find resources on making a good confession and more.

    • If you need a priest:

      • If you need a priest to administer the Sacrament of the Sick (Last Rites), and it is a non-emergency, please call: (978) 664-3412 during office hours. (9AM to 4 PM, Mon-Fri)
       
      • If this is an emergency, or you need to talk to a priest, please call (978) 664-3412. and press "*"
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      Do you have someone you would like us to pray for?  Or maybe you find you are in need  of prayer.  If you would like us to pray for an intention, fill out the form below or call the office at 978-664-3412 to submit your intentions.

      NOTE: If your prayer intention is urgent and you need immediate prayers, please email our Prayer Tree administrator, Patricia McCabe at: 
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  • Spiritual Support for families struggling with addiction:

    • IThirst is a nationwide program that offers spiriitual support for those suffering from addiction and their families.  Those who suffer from any form of addicition have a much better chance of success at staying their addiction when they seek a 3-part holistic approach of support and healing of MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT.

      The iTHIRST support program is not limited to drugs and alcohol, but also to the addiction of nicotine, food, technology, porn, etc.

      Here at St. Theresa Parish, we offer a twice monthly support group for families with family members suffering from addicition.  Click on the image to the right to go to our ITHIRST page for more information.

    • Click here to go to our iTHIRST Page

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    • HEALING BY DIVINE GRACE AND HEALING BY NATURAL POWERS

      From the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Doctrine

      The Church recognizes two kinds of healing: healing by divine grace and healing that utilizes the powers of nature. As for the first, we can point to the ministry of Christ, who performed many physical healings and who commissioned his disciples to carry on that work. In fidelity to this commission, from the time of the Apostles the Church has interceded on behalf of the sick through the invocation of the name of the Lord Jesus, asking for healing through the power of the Holy Spirit, whether in the form of the sacramental laying on of hands and anointing with oil or of simple prayers for healing, which often include an appeal to the saints for their aid. As for the second, the Church has never considered a plea for divine healing, which comes as a gift from God, to exclude recourse to natural means of healing through the practice of medicine.1 Alongside her sacrament of healing and various prayers for healing, the Church has a long history of caring for the sick through the use of natural means. The most obvious sign of this is the great number of Catholic hospitals that are found throughout our country.

      The two kinds of healing are not mutually exclusive. Because it is possible to be healed by divine power does not mean that we should not use natural means at our disposal. It is not our decision whether or not God will heal someone by supernatural means. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church points out, the Holy Spirit sometimes gives to certain human beings "a special charism of healing so as to make manifest the power of the grace of the risen Lord."2 This power of healing is not at human disposal, however, for "even the most intense prayers do not always obtain the healing of all illnesses."3 Recourse to natural means of healing therefore remains entirely appropriate, as these are at human disposal. In fact, Christian charity demands that we not neglect natural means of healing people who are ill.

      1 See Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Prayers for Healing (14 September 2000), I, 3: "Obviously, recourse to prayer does not exclude, but rather encourages the use of effective natural means for preserving and restoring health, as well as leading the Church's sons and daughters to care for the sick, to assist them in body and spirit, and to seek to cure disease."
      2 Catechism, no. 1508.
      3 Catechism, no. 1508.

       
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