The five healings you receive with Holy Communion

"If people understood the value of a Mass, there would be a crowd at the door of the Churches to be able to enter!". San Pio of Pietrelcina
Jesus said: “I have come for the sick, not for the healthy. It is not the healthy who need the doctor but the sick ".
Whenever we approach Mass as sick, as people in need of HEALING we receive Healing. Everything depends on the FAITH with which we participate in the Mass.
Of course, if I don't ask for anything and I participate absently, it is clear that I don't receive anything. But if instead, I live and enter the Eucharistic Mystery, I receive five HEALS.
Let's see what happens during the Mass when, as a sick person, I arrive, I sit and enter the Eucharistic Mystery seeing the Lord Jesus, who is Present before me and lives His Sacrifice, Offering of Himself to the Father. Let's see how I get involved and how I am healed. It takes FAITH and great ATTENTION.
Because with faith I enter Mass, with attention my human faculties, my intelligence, my goodness, my external attention is taken by the Mystery that I am celebrating and living.
Here are the five healings we receive:
- With the Penitential Act I receive the healing of the soul.
- With the Liturgy of the Word (Holy Scriptures) I receive healing of the mind.
- With the Offertory, the healing of the heart.
- With the Eucharistic Prayer, the healing of prayer.
- With Holy Communion, healing from all evil and even physical evil.

The first healing, that of the soul, which the Lord gives us is in the Penitential Act.
The penitential act, at the beginning of the Mass, is that act for which I am called to ask forgiveness for my sins. It is clear that this initial act does not replace Confession! If I have a serious sin I MUST go to confess! I can't access Communion!
Sacramental Confession forgives grave sins when I have lost grace. Then, to return to grace, I must confess. But if there is not in me the awareness of serious sins that I may have committed, if I have not done mortal sins, I still have the consciousness of needing forgiveness, that is, at the beginning of the Mass I take in hand my limits, my weaknesses , my small or serious spiritual illnesses.
Who among you is never subject to these weaknesses, these passions: anger, envy, jealousy, gluttony, the passions of the flesh? Who doesn't know these inner ailments?
There are always, so, at the beginning of the Holy Mass, here I carry before my Lord this package of mine, with which I deal every day, and I immediately ask to be forgiven by all these, so much so that the priest, at the end of the penitential act, he says these words: "Almighty God have mercy on us, FORGIVE our sins ...", then the Priest asks the Father, God, for forgiveness of the faults of the assembly.
A sort of acquittal of this spiritual illness of ours, because Jesus came into the world not only to heal the body but to heal the soul first.
You know that famous episode in which men drop the paralytic from the roof of the house and bring him to Jesus hoping that this Jesus, famous for having healed so many people the previous days, immediately says to him: “Here, what act of faith you have done ! Stand up: I will heal you! " ?
No, Jesus says to him: "Son, your sins are forgiven". Stop. He sits there and says nothing more. Here is the function of Christ.
John the Baptizer had said it a short time before: “Here is the Lamb of God! Here is the One who takes away the sins of the world ”. This came to do God on earth, God in the world.
Jesus erases sins with his precious blood.
It is important to know that the initial part of the Holy Mass is not simply an introductory rite, so if you arrive late to Mass you will miss this first healing, the liberation of the soul.
"Lord, now we are here in front of you and we put all our faults at the foot of this altar". It is a kind of initial washing. If you have to go to a party try to go beautiful, dressed and perfumed. Well, this perfume gives us precisely the penitential act!
There is a beautiful parable in the Gospel, everyone there eating and there is one who does not have a wedding dress.
Then the Lord says to him: "Friend, how could you have entered without a wedding dress?". This stays there, he doesn't know what to say. And then the master of the canteen says to the servants: "Throw him out!".
And there we are truly touched by Jesus who tells us: "Your faults are forgiven."
The signs will be not only the release from guilt with consequent inner peace, but also greater strength and determination to attack one's faults and wrong habits.