What Is Healing Prayer All About? Answers to Most Frequently Asked Questions About Healing

What is Healing Prayer All About? Answers to Most Frequently Asked Questions About Healing, is a power-packed compendium on the whole topic of healing prayer. Tackling such potentially vexing questions as "Why Are My Prayers Not Answered?" Why Isn’t Everyone Healed?" and "How Can We Heal Relationships With Those We Love, But Who Have Hurt Us In So Many Ways?", the authors share the insights and experiences they have gained from their many years of serving as instruments of God’s healing power and love. Dr. Larry Dossey, MD says, "Religious devotion and prayer are vital factors in health and can make the difference in life and death. To understand the role of spirituality and prayer in healing, and how this power is available to everyone, anywhere, I heartily recommend this book. McCall and Lacy are emerging as two of the great healers of our culture. This book explains why."

Fr. Peter McCall, a Capuchin Franciscan priest, has a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology from Fordham University. He also took graduate studies in scripture and spirituality at Fordham and attended the Catholic Charismatic Biblical Institute at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX. He taught religion in high schools for seventeen years. In 1981, was reassigned from his teaching duties and given permission to work full time in the preaching and healing ministry. Fr. Peter has been a member of the Association of Christian Therapists since 1979.

Maryanne Lacy, a Catholic laywoman, graduated in 1982 from the Archdiocese of New York training programs in Spiritual Direction and Religious Counseling. She has had further training in spiritual development and the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius. Maryanne has been a member of the Association of Christian Therapists since 1979. She first manifested the gift of healing in 1976 when she was praying over a woman who had a growth in her throat – the woman was healed instantly.