Southern Nebraska Register
The Nebraska Catholic Nurses and the Lincoln Catholic Medical Association will host a retreat for healthcare providers April 27 in Lincoln.
“Physician Heal Thyself” will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at St. Patrick Church, 6111 Morril Ave.
The event will focus on participants receiving healing from God and then allowing His healing to pour from their hearts to their patients.
The day will begin with Mass, followed by breakfast, a talk, and Eucharistic adoration. Prayer teams will be available for those who would like to join, and confessions will be available.
Dr. Carla Ericksen, communications director for the Lincoln Guild CMA and a member of St. Peter Parish in Lincoln, said all healthcare providers who serve to heal others through their work – whether they practice as physicians, dentists, nurses, physical therapists, psychiatrists, optometrists, or are just beginning as medical students – are welcome to join the retreat.
The speaker will be Father Matthew Rolling. Father Rolling is academic dean and a teacher at St. Gregory the Great Seminary in Seward.
“Father Rolling has background in ethics and forming the whole person to come to the fullness God has created them to be, so God can work through them in their ministry,” said Sister Faustina Lightfoot, a member of the Lincoln Guild CMA, Nebraska Catholic Nurses Association, and the Marian Sisters.
“Father Rolling has been instrumental in assisting with and giving retreats focused on healing and building up the Kingdom of God,” she said. “The Marian Sisters have worked with Father Rolling on many retreats for healing.”
The Catholic Medical Association (CMA) is the largest association of Catholic individuals in health care. The organization helps members grow in faith, maintain ethical integrity, and provide excellent health care in accordance with the teachings of the Church. The CMA helps to start and support independent guilds (chapters) throughout the country. Guilds provide fellowship, education, and service to the local Church, the community, and peers in health care.
There are two CMA guilds in Nebraska, in Omaha and Lincoln. Dr. Arthur Grinstead is the Lincoln Guild president.
The Nebraska Catholic Nurses group, a member of the Catholic Medical Association, was started last year by Sister Joan Kolbe, M.S., Sister Faustina, M.S. and Dotti Easter of St. Benedict Parish in Nebraska City.
“We hope to create community for faithful Catholics,” Dr. Ericksen said of the retreat, “and we hope this retreat revitalizes the spiritual needs of those called to work in the ministry of healthcare.
“We are all called to be the face, voice, and hands of Christ to those He brings us each day in our health professions,” she continued. “We hope to bring all Catholic health practitioners together in this mission. Even if my actions are what I may think is the smallest act, it is a seed that God can bring my patients more healing spiritually, emotionally, and physically.”
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