The ministries of healing and consolation focus on the spiritual healing of the faithful, through prayer, reconciliation, anointing, and consolation rooted on God.
All of us need healing, throughout our lives because of bad decisions made, physical and emotional suffering experienced, disease and finally death. As the sacraments of Initiation guide us through the journey of our lives so the sacraments of reconciliation, anointing, and viaticum, take us through our periods of darkness and death thus completing our earthly pilgrimage. CCC 1525
The goal of each healing sacrament is to bring us God’s healing presence through Jesus Christ and with the power of the Holy Spirit.