In Health and in Healing

In Health And In Healing is a collection of short readings of psalms canticles and other sacred scripture plus songs from the Christian tradition arranged for mornings and evenings of the seven days of the week. It is rooted in a summer chaplaincy internship at Emory Hospital in Atlanta during the 96 Olympic games: a Catholic seminarian offering short readings from the Psalter and watching faithful Baptists Methodists Jews and so many others taking in the sacred word with reverence resembling a Catholic receiving holy communion. This experience deepened a future parish priests appreciation of the sacramentality of the word. These passages gave great consolation then and are still helpful in pastoral care. On the occasional day of depression Stephen Joseph Wolf uses this as his breviary.