St. Peregrine Healing Mass
Are you sick, suffering, grieving, struggling, or simply in need of God's strength and peace?
The St. Peregrine Healing Mass is a special celebration of the Holy Eucharist where we gather to pray for all who are in need of physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, or moral healing and support. You are welcome to come for yourself, for someone you love, or simply to pray alongside others who are suffering.
The Mass is rooted in the spirituality of the Servants of Mary (Servites). From their beginnings, the Servites have been called to compassionate service of those who suffer. Their spirituality looks especially to Mary standing faithfully at the foot of the Cross, teaching us not to abandon those who suffer, but to remain beside them with faith, compassion, prayer, and hope. The Secular Servite Rule calls Servants of Mary to stand with her at the countless crosses borne by humanity, bringing comfort and a caring presence.
What Can I Expect?
The heart of the Healing Mass is Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Together we listen to God's Word, celebrate Mass, and place our needs and the needs of those we love before the Lord.
Special prayers are offered for the sick and suffering, and we ask the intercession of St. Peregrine Laziosi, O.S.M., a Servite friar especially invoked by people suffering from cancer and serious illness. Depending upon the celebration, there may also be prayers for healing, blessings, or other devotions associated with St. Peregrine.
There is no promise that attending a Healing Mass will result in a physical cure. We simply come before God in faith and ask for his grace. Healing can take many forms: physical healing, peace of mind, consolation in grief, freedom from the burden of sin, renewed hope, strength during illness, deeper conversion, reconciliation, or the grace to carry a difficult cross.
Come As You Are
You do not have to be seriously ill to attend. You may be struggling with illness, anxiety, grief, loneliness, addiction, family difficulties, temptation, discouragement, spiritual struggles, or circumstances that simply feel too heavy to carry alone.
You don't have to explain yourself. You don't have to tell anyone what you're going through. You don't even have to know exactly what you need. Just come and bring it to God.
The Servite tradition teaches us something very simple about suffering: remain at the foot of the Cross. Mary remained there with Jesus, and Servants of Mary seek to remain there with those who suffer. The Servite Prayerbook recalls that even the First Fathers served among the poor and sick, bringing God's healing love and compassion through their ministry.
At the St. Peregrine Healing Mass, you do not have to carry your cross alone. Come pray with us. Let us place our needs before Jesus Christ and entrust ourselves to God's mercy, accompanied by Our Lady of Sorrows and the prayers of St. Peregrine.
Come seeking healing. Come seeking peace. Come seeking strength. Or simply come because you need somewhere to bring what you are carrying.
A Jubilee of Mercy, Healing & Renewal
From May 1, 2026 through May 4, 2027, the Servite Family is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the canonization of St. Peregrine Laziosi, O.S.M. During this special Jubilee Year, the Apostolic Penitentiary has granted the faithful the opportunity to obtain a plenary indulgence through pilgrimage and prayer at churches and shrines entrusted to the Order of Servants of Mary, under the prescribed conditions.
An indulgence is a beautiful expression of God's mercy and the healing work of Christ in his Church. In the Sacrament of Reconciliation, sins are truly forgiven; nevertheless, the effects and consequences of sin can remain and require purification. An indulgence is the remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.
This makes the Jubilee especially meaningful for anyone coming to the St. Peregrine Healing Mass carrying sickness, suffering, regret, spiritual struggles, or a desire for a new beginning. We come not expecting a magical cure, but seeking Jesus Christ, who offers forgiveness, grace, conversion, peace, strength, and the healing that he knows we need.
To obtain the Jubilee plenary indulgence, the faithful make the prescribed pilgrimage or visit, participate in the required Jubilee prayer and Eucharistic adoration, and fulfill the usual conditions of Sacramental Confession, Holy Communion, prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father, and freedom from attachment to sin. The indulgence may be obtained for oneself or applied to a soul in Purgatory. Special provision is also made for the elderly, sick, and others who are legitimately unable to make the pilgrimage.
The Jubilee is therefore more than an anniversary. The Prior General of the Servants of Mary has presented it as an invitation to spiritual renewal, a deeper life of grace, conversion, reconciliation, prayer, and growth in Christ.
If you are coming to the St. Peregrine Healing Mass because you are sick, struggling, burdened, or praying for someone you love, this Jubilee offers another opportunity to place your life before the mercy of God.
Come to Mass. Come to Confession. Receive Christ in the Eucharist. Pray with St. Peregrine. Entrust what you are carrying to God, and allow this Jubilee to become a time of grace, conversion, healing, and renewed hope.
