Take 7 minutes and 42 seconds to pause and practise the presence of God in the midst of any busyness in your mind, emotions or schedule. Lydia, our Ministry Leader, guides you through this prayerful practice.
The Church’s Ministry of Ireland prays for all who have lost their homes, their countries, their security, their safety. We pray for all refugees, for all asylum seekers, for all forced into migration. We pray for forgiveness for the times when we have been too tired or stressed to care about news headlines, when we have turned our heads away from abuses and injustices towards people seeking refuge, and we ask God to help us to live his commandment to love the stranger as ourselves.
If you are interested and curious about what CMHI is, and what it means for us to be a Church of Ireland organisation, then this leaflet, part of a series about Church of Ireland views and beliefs, is a good starting point. It explores the ministry of healing, healing and faith, healing and death, and offers some resources on the topic. Click here to download it to your computer or phone, or click here to view it and the others in the series on the Church of Ireland website. If you have questions, or would like to know more about our healing ministry, then we’d love to hear from you – send us an email by clicking here for our contact details.
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Click here to watch and listen to Lydia, CMHI Ministry Leader, offering a prayerful reflection that focuses on how we approach truth in scripture and the reality of our lives. This reflection is free to everyone to watch and to share. If you would like to donate to support CMHI, thank you – and our details are available on our website at this link.
We are often asked about Word or PDF versions of the BCP’s service of A Celebration of Wholeness and Healing by parishes or clergy. Both versions of the text are available to download from the Church of Ireland website, as well as, of course, being in the Book of Common Prayer itself. If you go to https://www.ireland.anglican.org/prayer-worship/book-of-common-prayer/2004-texts and scroll down about two-thirds of the page, you’ll see the option to download version 1 and version 2 of the service. Version 1 is the PDF and Version 2 is the Word document. If you’d like to buy a BCP, you may do so from the Church of Ireland bookstore: https://store.ireland.anglican.org/store/product/164/book-of-common-prayer-desk-edition
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“Art therapy uses integrative techniques to captivate the soul, body and mind in ways that verbal expression alone doesn’t appear to”.
If you would like to apply to be a member of CMHI, please email catherine@ministryofhealing.ie and ask for more information and an application form! The initial term of membership is 5 years, and we are a company limited by guarantee, which protects members in the unlikely event that CMHI would have to be wound up. Once you send in your form, the membership committee will convene and then we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!
Church’s Ministry of Healing
Egan House, St Michan’s Church,
Church Street, Dublin 7, D07 X865
T: (01) 872 7876
E: hello@ministryofhealing.ie
Website by Sam Bourke
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