Prayer to Christ the Healer
Holy Communion at Home
If you would like to receive Holy Communion at home, please contact one of the clergy or the Parish office.
St. Piran’s has designated Wednesday morning Mass to be the Mass when Holy Communion is brought by Ministers of the Eucharist to those at home.
This takes place near the end of the 10am Mass, when just after Holy Communion, the Ministers take the sacred hosts to those at home. At the same time the whole assembly prays for those who are to receive, as their names are read out.
In the Eucharist we are strengthened and supported because Christ is truly present every time we turn to Him. In His life Jesus used His sufferings to reveal His love, and Holy Communion brings us that life and love. An added burden in being sick or housebound is that we cannot come to church as we would wish, to receive this “Bread of Heaven” at Communion in the Mass.
When You are Near Death
When someone is in danger of death, the Parish Priest should be called as a matter of urgency. He will celebrate the Sacrament of the Sick, which involves the Sacrament of Penance and the Eucharist, or ‘Viaticum’. As the Sacrament of Christ’s Passover, the Eucharist should be the last Sacrament of the earthly journey for ‘passing over’ to eternal life. The Priest then prays over and anoints the dying person, thereby completing their conformity with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, just as their baptism began it.
Our ministry to the dying places the emphasis on trust in the Lord’s promise of eternal life.
Prayer
We regularly pray for those who are sick, either privately or at Mass through the Intercessions.
We have a Parish intercession book which is kept in the porch. Please add the name of anyone who is sick and we will pray for them when the book is brought up during the offertory at Mass.
I have called you by your name, you are mine….
Because you are precious in my eyes,
Because you are honoured and I love you.”
The Sacrament of the Sick
The Sacrament of the Sick, or Anointing, is the ‘ultimate’ healing Sacrament and is available whenever our health is seriously impaired by sickness or old age.
God Our Father is always with us in our illness, loving us into health of mind, body and spirit. Through our faith, we know that we will have life forever. In our growing closeness to Christ through faith, we receive a new vision of life, a vision that sees everything in the light of God’s eternal love. This love is everlasting; no sickness is final and even death cannot withstand such love.
During the administration of the Sacrament, the sick person is anointed by the Priest with oil, a symbol of healing in Christ’s time, and given now as a sign of Christ’s healing care for us.
When You Go Into Hospital
On Sunday, Holy Communion can be brought to your bedside by our Ministers of the Eucharist. The Chaplain can also arrange a visit from the Parish Priest for the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the Sacrament of the Sick.
When you go into hospital and you complete the admissions form please remember to state your religion as ‘RC’. In Treliske Hospital, there is a mass every 1st Thursday of the month at 12:30.
The Chaplaincy also maintains a daily prayer list for those who are sick, so please ask if you would like to be included on this.
Your fellow parishioners wish you a speedy return to health. We want you to know that you have a very special place in our parish this time. During His life on earth, Jesus Christ “loved” people to total health. He lifted up those who were sick and raised them to new life.
Throughout our lives, Jesus “loves” us too into total health, helping us to endure and triumph over our sickness. At the heart of our Christian life is prayer and the healing Sacraments in which Christ is present to strengthen and restore us.