Welcome!
Whatever your background or beliefs, we hope that you will find lots to interest you here.
Our concern is always with healing in its widest sense - the healing of all
creation, of individuals, of society, of the environment.
That is what we understand by 'Christ's ministry of healing'.
In the Guild of St Raphael we are dedicated to promoting this ministry,
and to practising it, particularly at the local level. You can learn more about
what we do and what we have to offer by exploring this site.
Happy New Year!
During this season of Epiphany the church celebrates the visit of the Wise Men, who brought gifts to the Infant Jesus
The Strength to be Human:
A Study Day on Healing is to be held in Peterborough Cathedral on
Saturday 10th March 2012.
This event, which is jointly organised by the
Acorn Christian Healing Foundation and the
Guild of Health,
will begin at 9.00am and will include addresses by prominent speakers and also workshop sessions.
The day will end with a Healing Service with Communion and the Laying On of Hands.
For further details in pdf format please click
[here]
and for the same information in Word for Windows format please click
[here].
Chrism and Guild News
On the
[Publications] page there are details of the Guild's Journal
Chrism and of its newsletter
Guild News.
You might like to know that some back numbers of these publications are now avaliable for download as .pdf documents.
To access the
Chrism back numbers please click
[here] and for
Guild News. click
[here].
Please bear in mind that on slow internet connections each docment may take some little time to download.
2011 Guild Festival
This year's Guild Festival and Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday 22nd October at 11.30am in Llandaff Cathedral.
The President was the Warden of the Guild, Bishop of Blackburn the Rt Revd Nicholas Reade.
Revd Beatrice Brandon, the Archbishops' Adviser for the Healing Ministry, was the preacher.
After the Festival Eucharist we remained for the Annual General Meeting.
More details of this memorable Festival may be found on our
[News and Views] page.