• S7 Ep2: Luigi Gioia on praying for healing

  • Feb 21 2025
  • Length: 38 mins
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S7 Ep2: Luigi Gioia on praying for healing

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  • We continue our 2025 season on Belonging and Healing with an inspiring conversation between Gillian and Anglican priest, Father Luigi Gioia. This is a rich and profound episode where they go deep into lived experience and the reality of what it means to pray for healing.

    The Rev. Dr. Luigi Gioia is the Theologian in Residence at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City, and Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute at the University of Cambridge (UK). He is the author of Say It To God. In Search of Prayer. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lent Book 2018 (Bloomsbury 2017), and The Wisdom of St Benedict. Monastic Spirituality And The Life Of The Church (Canterbury Press 2021). His books have been translated in six languages.

    TW: Mentions suicide.

    Together they discuss:

    • Why pray for healing?
    • The difference between being cured and being healed.
    • What is happening for people at Lourdes.
    • The healing sacraments.
    • The place of death in prayers for healing.
    • The difference between acceptance and resignation.
    • The importance of community in healing experiences.
    • Father Luigi's own very personal current experience of praying for healing.
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