In our Gospels, we proclaim Jesus who suffers from the suffering, who grieves with the grieving, who knows our isolation, our pain. Now, through the body of Christ we are being called to walk with one another through the wilderness of illness, age, injury, and isolation, and to bring hope, and to offer the healing power of prayer and the strength of the Eucharist through our deacons and lay ecclesial ministers…and through our priests bring the healing Sacraments of Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick.