One of the most difficult of all human experiences is being sick. There are so many stresses:

• Financial Stress: How much will all these medicines, procedures, tests, and hospitalizations cost?
• Emotional Stress: One day full of hope and the next day, there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel.
• Physical Stress: The pain and the inconveniences being experienced.
• Spiritual Stress: Lord why me? Why not the evildoers?

That is why one reason why people go to God, return to God, or find God is for healing. 

In the Gospel. Jesus healed the mother-in-law of Peter among many others and also drove out demons.  In the ministry of the priesthood and also being involved with the deliverance, there are various types of sickness I have encountered:

• First, sickness due to the body. Our body will age, our body has been abused, and our body is finite. Hence, eventually, sickness comes in.
   
• Second, sickness due to the evil spirit. These are sicknesses that typically doctors cannot diagnose. The cause could be through hexes, dwelling with the occult, or ingestion of defiled food or water.  
  
• Third, the source is the body but it is being aggravated by the evil spirit.  This is also through when it comes to the mind. 

That is why, we remember our loved ones who are sick.

• First, we remember that the vocation of doctors, nurses, and other medical staff is to cure the sickness
  
• Second, the Church has sacraments of healings: Confession, Anointing of the Sick, and Holy Eucharist. One could make use of Sacramentals: Blessed Salt and Water.
  
• Third, be careful of healers. Know the background and consult. If the healing spirit is not from God, the relief is temporary and one give the evil spirit a legal rite over you already. 

In the end, whatever happens, let us trust God’s mysterious ways. Whether we are cured of our sickness or not, we will one day say goodbye in this world. What is most important is the soul.