{"id":19579,"date":"2015-06-05T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T21:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=19579"},"modified":"2017-04-17T21:58:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:58:40","slug":"st-raphaels-little-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/st-raphaels-little-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Raphael&#039;s Little Healing","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS<br \/>for Friday, June 5th, 2015<br \/> Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Liturgical texts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/060515.cfm\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin: 5px auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/raphael_Fotor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"597\" data-position=\"1\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>St. Raphael, &#8220;<\/em>Medicine of God&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>IT <\/b>was late dusk, and a blood moon was rising. I was entranced by its deep color as I wandered through the horses. I had just layed out their hay and they were quietly munching. The full moon, the fresh snow, the peaceful murmur of satisfied animals \u2026 it was\u00a0a tranquil moment.<\/p>\n<p>Until what felt like a bolt of lightning shot through my knee.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Peace gave way to <i>pain<\/i>. I caught him out of the corner of my eye: the horse named <i>Diablo <\/i><span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_19579_1('footnote_plugin_reference_19579_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_19579_1('footnote_plugin_reference_19579_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_19579_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_19579_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">His previous owners picked this name, which means \u201cdevil\u201d. We changed it to Diego. But I think his former name is more suitable\u2026<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_19579_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_19579_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> kicked me in the leg. My wife, who was nearby, said later on that he appeared to be taking a shot at the pony. But I wasn\u2019t taking chances at that point. I howled and hopped on one leg, diving over the fence face first into a snowbank. I\u2019d never felt pain like that in my life as I rolled about like a wounded cat. My wife, who had borne seven children by then, did not mock me (right away).<\/p>\n<p>For the next month, I was on crunches, and then a cane. My leg wasn\u2019t broken, but badly sprained\u2014or so it seemed. The aching in my knee wasn&#8217;t getting much better. So my doctor scheduled an MRI, concerned that there was more damage than she originally thought.<\/p>\n<p>It was at that point that I remembered a bottle of \u201chealing oil\u201d that a friend had given me. The &#8220;St. Raphael Holy Healing Oil\u201d to be precise. It is a special formula, apparently Heaven-sent, that Fr. Joseph Whalen and his ministry prepare and give away. My friend said she had heard of many healings with this particular oil.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the use of sacramentals such as holy water or oil are an ancient practice in the Church. It is not that the oil itself carries a healing property (aside possibly from its natural ingredients), but that God uses it as a sacred sign <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_19579_1('footnote_plugin_reference_19579_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_19579_1('footnote_plugin_reference_19579_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_19579_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_19579_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <i>Catechism of the Catholic Church, <\/i>n. 1677<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_19579_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_19579_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> and symbol to effect healing through the prayer of faith. Think of how Jesus used mud and spittle to open the eyes of a blind man, or how people were healed touching only His cloak. It was not the mud or cloak that healed them, but Jesus\u2019 power. And remember the dramatic healings in the early Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">So extraordinary were the mighty deeds God accomplished at the hands of Paul that when face cloths or aprons that touched his skin were applied to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. (Acts 19:11-12)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course, in today\u2019s readings, we read how St. Raphael commended to Tobiah a sacramental to heal his father Tobit\u2019s eyes: fish gall. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_19579_1('footnote_plugin_reference_19579_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_19579_1('footnote_plugin_reference_19579_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_19579_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_19579_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. Tobit 11:7-8<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_19579_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_19579_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Along with the oil I received was a prayer to repeat seven days in a row. It made me think of the Israelites as they marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, blowing their trumpets, before the walls\u00a0collapsed into rubble. And so, I applied the oil and prayed the prayers while invoking the intercession of St. Raphael, whose name means \u201cMedicine of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the night before the scheduled MRI, I finished my seventh day. I anointed my knee, said the prayers, and went to sleep. The next morning, as I lay in bed beside my cane, the phone rang. &#8220;Hello Mr. Mallett. We\u2019re just calling to confirm your appointment this afternoon.\u201d At that moment, I stretched out my leg and <i>there was no pain. <\/i>&#8220;Hold on a second,\u201d I replied. I put down the phone, stood up, bent down, walked around, bent down again. I couldn\u2019t believe it. It was the first day I hadn\u2019t felt any pain since the injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUh, ma\u2019am,\u201d I said into the phone. \u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t have any pain today. So you go ahead and give that MRI to someone else\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To this day, eight years later, I have not had even an arthritic twinge in that knee. I was completely healed. And in the words of Tobit, all I can say is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">Blessed be God, and praised be his great name, and blessed be all his holy angels. May his holy name be praised throughout all the ages, because it was he who scourged me, and it is he who has had mercy on me. (First reading)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, actually it was a horse named Diablo who scourged me. But we sold him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>To receive a bottle of the healing oil of St. Raphael, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straphaeloil.com\/order\/\">Archangel St. Raphael Holy Healing Ministry<\/a>. They would be most blessed if you would leave them a donation. You can also read other testimonies there. <\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thanks for your prayers and support.<br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.markmallett.com\/donate\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Donateovalbtnonbeige.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"48\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.markmallett.com\/store\/?sort=newest\">STUNNING CATHOLIC NOVEL!<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tired of cheesy Christian novels? 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I keep on asking myself, \u201cHow can somebody write something like this?\u201d Speechless.<\/strong><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u2014Ken Yasinski, <em>Catholic speaker, author &amp; founder of FacetoFace Ministries<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>From the first word to the last I was captivated, suspended between awe and amazement. How did one so young write such intricate plot lines, such complex characters, such compelling dialogue? How had a mere teenager mastered the craft of writing, not just with proficiency, but with depth of feeling? How could she treat profound themes so deftly without the least bit of preachiness? I am still in awe. Clearly the hand of God is in this gift.<br \/> <\/strong>\u2014<em>Janet Klasson, author of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pelianito.stblogs.com\">The Pelianito Journal Blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.markmallett.com\/store\/?sort=newest\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align\n: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.markmallett.com\/store\/?sort=newest\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tree-Book.jpg\" alt=\"Tree Book\" width=\"313\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tree-Book.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tree-Book-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><br \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_19579_1();\"><h5>Footnotes<\/h5><\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_19579_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_19579_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_19579_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\"><h5>Footnotes<\/h5><\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_19579_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_19579_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_19579_1_1');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">His previous owners picked this name, which means \u201cdevil\u201d. We changed it to Diego. But I think his former name is more suitable\u2026<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_19579_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_19579_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_19579_1_2');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">cf. <i>Catechism of the Catholic Church, <\/i>n. 1677<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_19579_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_19579_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_19579_1_3');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">cf. 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