On Wednesdays at 10 AM, we celebrate a public service of healing with Holy Eucharist. The regular attenders of this service are small in number but fervent in prayer.
We pray for all those on our parish prayer list, all those who have died, and all those near death. We pray for specific requests, both named and anonymous, that have been shared with us.
We pray in communion with all the saints, and we pray for the parish of St Paul's and the community of Key West and the Lower Keys.
Sometimes we have guests who join us for this Eucharist with Healing. This week, an elderly couple from Chicago whose daughter died three months ago prayed with us at this service. English is not their first language. We prayed together in the language of the heart.
After the service these brokenhearted parents asked me to continue to remember them and especially to remember their departed daughter in my personal prayers and at the altar. They visit her grave each Sunday. They long to be reunited with her.
Come October and the closing of the church building of St Paul's for the removal of our stained-glass windows and the structural repairs to the building's concrete, the Wednesday Eucharist with Healing will continue. Our plan is to gather in the meeting space in Holy Innocents' Hall.
Though the church building will be closed for a year or so for the needed repairs, the church--the followers of Jesus--will remain active. Healing prayer will continue. And all of you will be remembered.
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