Lazarus Center for Healing Shrine

Lazarus Center for Healing Shrine Catholic Shrine|Archdiocese of Boston. Restoration through
Monthly Healing Masses, Confession & Eucharistic Adoration. Ed Riley

Come pray before an approved replica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and encounter Christ.
đź“Ť 47 Butler Ave, Wakefield, MA Rector: Fr.

Come join us this evening. All women welcome as we pray for mothers. 🙏🙏🙏
09/07/2026

Come join us this evening. All women welcome as we pray for mothers. 🙏🙏🙏

We receive visitors from far and wide here at the Shrine… Today’s visitors included Barbara and Frank Martins from Rehob...
09/06/2026

We receive visitors from far and wide here at the Shrine… Today’s visitors included Barbara and Frank Martins from Rehoboth, Massachusetts. All are welcome!

09/06/2026

Church is not only where we gather. It is also what the world encounters when we carry the patience, mercy, truth, and love of Jesus beyond the walls.

“Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” — Matthew 5:16

Receive the free weekly devotional through the link in bio and keep making space to live what you believe.

09/06/2026

Redemption does not erase the difficult chapters. It reveals that failure, pain, and brokenness do not get the final word when grace enters the story.

“If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come.” — 2 Corinthians 5:17.

Explore more of God’s restoring grace in the free weekly devotional linked in bio.

First Saturday at the Shrine.Our Lady of Fatima asked us to make reparation to her Immaculate Heart on the First Saturda...
09/05/2026

First Saturday at the Shrine.

Our Lady of Fatima asked us to make reparation to her Immaculate Heart on the First Saturday of five consecutive months.

The devotion includes:

• Go to Confession
• Receive Holy Communion
• Pray five decades of the Rosary
• Keep Our Lady company for 15 minutes while meditating on one or more mysteries of the Rosary
• Offer these acts with the intention of making reparation to her Immaculate Heart

At today’s First Saturday Mass, Fr. Ed and Fr. Tom also blessed the devotional articles brought by the faithful.

“Jesus wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.” — Our Lady of Fatima

08/29/2026

Jesus sent these words of comfort to John the Baptist in prison, giving him the confidence he needed to know that the Messiah had come. Today we celebrate John’s acceptance of death, and his entering into his eternal reward.

08/28/2026

Sometimes the most Christlike thing you can do for someone who is hurting isn’t to explain their pain—it’s to sit beside them, listen, and stay.

You don’t have to know why they’re hurting to love them through it. 🤍🙏🏻

📖 Job 2:11–13 | Job 42:7

HOLY FACE CONSECRATION — DAY 1Learning Reverence AgainToday we begin a series of reflections inspired by Preparation for...
08/27/2026

HOLY FACE CONSECRATION — DAY 1
Learning Reverence Again

Today we begin a series of reflections inspired by Preparation for Total Consecration to the Holy Face of Jesus by Fr. Lawrence Daniel Carney III. As I journey through the book one day at a time, I’ll share the spiritual gems that may have something to teach us about the woundedness of our world—and about our ministry to those who are suffering.

Day 1 brings us to the generosity of God.

God did not create because He lacked something. Creation adds nothing to His perfection. He creates because Love gives—and every human life exists because it was freely willed by Love.

This gives every person an immeasurable dignity. Our worth does not come from usefulness, independence, health, beauty, intelligence, productivity, or the ability to contribute. Every person has worth because God desired that person into existence and placed His image within them.

The book tells us that God’s divinity is recognized in His Face, and mankind is made in this image. Jesus possesses a human face—and through His Holy Face, He teaches us how to recognize the divine imprint in every human face.

Perhaps the crisis around us is, at its heart, a crisis of vision: we have forgotten how to behold.

When we lose reverence for God’s Face, we eventually lose reverence for the human face. People become categories, problems, burdens, bodies, diagnoses, enemies, or inconveniences. Once we stop truly beholding a person, it becomes much easier to dismiss, exploit, humiliate, abandon, or destroy them.

The Holy Face devotion is therefore more than an invitation to gaze lovingly upon Jesus. It is a school in which Jesus repairs our way of seeing.

At the Shrine, people arrive carrying wounds that may be visible or deeply hidden. The Holy Face teaches us not to see a problem requiring attention, but a person deserving reverence—not merely someone seeking healing, but a living image of God whose dignity existed before the wound and remains intact beneath it.

This is especially powerful because the Face we contemplate is itself wounded, mocked, bloodied, and disfigured. Jesus reveals human dignity through a Face the world considered worthless.

The world looked upon His suffering and turned away.

The consecrated heart looks—and remains.

O Holy Face of Jesus, repair our vision. Teach us to recognize Your image in every person, especially the forgotten, the unwanted, the wounded, and those who are difficult to love. May no life entrusted to our gaze ever be treated as ordinary. Amen.

08/27/2026

KEEP LOVING AND PRAYING | “There comes a time in the life of every parent when you discover a painful truth: You cannot change your child.

When children are small, parents can decide many things for them: what they eat, what they wear, where they go, even what time they sleep.

But children grow up. They begin making their own choices. And sometimes those choices break a parent’s heart.

A son stops going to church. A daughter makes decisions you do not understand. A child falls into destructive habits. Another becomes distant from the family.

And a mother begins asking herself: “What else can I do?”

Saint Monica gives us a beautiful answer: Sometimes you cannot change your child, but you can continue loving your child while asking God to change his heart.

That is exactly what we see in today’s Gospel. Jesus meets a widow from Nain whose only son has died. She is completely powerless. She cannot bring her son back. All she can do is walk beside him and weep.

But Jesus sees her. Luke tells us: “When the Lord saw her, he was moved with pity for her.”

Notice something beautiful: the mother never even asks Jesus for a miracle. Her tears are enough. Jesus approaches the young man and says: Young man, I tell you, arise!”

And the Gospel tells us that the young man sits up and begins to speak. The mother could not restore her son. But Jesus could.

THIS WAS ALSO MONICA’S EXPERIENCE

Saint Monica knew what it meant to have a son she could not change. Augustine was intelligent, ambitious, and restless. For years he wandered away from the Christian faith and lived a life that caused his mother great sorrow.

Imagine Monica trying to give Augustine advice. Augustine was a philosopher. He could probably give his mother ten arguments explaining why she was wrong!

So Monica eventually learned something every parent must learn: There are doors in the heart of your child that you cannot open. Only God can.

Monica could not force Augustine to believe. She could not argue him into holiness. She could not control his choices. But she could do two things: She could keep loving him, and she could keep praying for him. And she did.

Year after year. Tear after tear. Prayer after prayer. Monica did not give up on Augustine because she did not give up on God. That is heroic motherhood.

Heroic mothers are not mothers who have perfect children. They are mothers who continue loving imperfect children. They know when to correct and when to remain silent. They know when to speak and when simply to pray. They remain present even when their love is not appreciated.

Perhaps some mothers here today carry a quiet pain. You have prayed for your son for years. You worry about your daughter. You see your child making choices you know will eventually hurt him.

And perhaps you have asked: “Lord, what more can I do?” Maybe today Jesus is telling you: “Give your child to Me.”

You are the mother. You are not the Messiah. Do what love requires. Teach. Correct. Listen. Accompany. Set necessary boundaries. But after doing what you can, allow God to do what only God can.

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My dear friends, Saint Monica reminds every parent: Your child may walk away from your advice, but he can never walk beyond the reach of your prayer.

So when you cannot change your child, do not stop loving. When your words no longer seem to work, keep praying. And when you feel that nothing is happening, keep trusting. Because the God who saw the tears of the widow of Nain also sees the tears of every mother.

Sometimes you cannot change your child. But you can continue loving your child while asking God to change his heart.

Saint Monica did. And Augustine became a saint.”

— Cebu Archbishop Alberto “Abet” Uy
Maymay sa Magbalantay | 27 August 2026

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