The healing Jesus offers begins in the heart and reaches us, above all, through the sacraments of the Church. The prophet Isaiah announced the suffering Servant: “by his wounds we were healed” (Is 53:5). Saint Peter repeats these words as he looks at the cross of Christ (1 Pt 2:24). The wounded face we contemplate in the Holy Face is the face of the One who took our sorrows upon himself. Jesus still heals today, and he does so mainly through the sacraments. In Confession, he

Resentment imprisons the one who holds on to it. To forgive is to open the prison door — and to discover that the prisoner was you. Peter asked Jesus how many times he should forgive his brother — perhaps seven times. Jesus answered: seventy times seven (Mt 18:21-22), that is, always. And in the Our Father we ask to be forgiven in the same measure as we forgive (Mt 6:12). Many people seeking healing carry old hurts: from parents, from spouses, from those who wounded them in c

Many prisons of the soul are named fear. The answer Jesus taught Saint Faustina fits in five words. Saint Faustina, one of the mystics of our spiritual family, received from Jesus the request to paint the image of Divine Mercy with the inscription “Jesus, I trust in You.” The phrase is simple, but it is a prayer of deliverance: whoever trusts hands control over to God. Jesus invites us: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest” (Mt 11:28). And