I liked this, from Disputations:
Last month, a priest spoke about what the faithful say just before receiving Holy Communion: "Only say the word and I will be healed."
The Eucharist is true food; It overcomes our weaknesses and makes us strong in the life of the Trinity, if we allow it. But how often do we really ask to be healed? Do we even expect anything from the Eucharist, beyond perhaps a good feeling and some bit of undetectable grace?
We can, if we like, come to Mass prepared to truly ask to be healed. Healed of a physical ailment, or an emotional wound, or a moral weakness. And what relic, what novena, what pilgrimage can add to the power made present at every Catholic altar in the world?
I think it's St. Faustina (probably others too) who wrote about asking Jesus to heal her tongue at the moment His body was placed upon her tongue. That is, to heal it from its tendency to speak ill of others, to speak harshly to others, and generally from speaking too much at all.
When you consider how much sinning we do merely by speech, you realize how powerful this can be. It's a good moment to ask Him to heal much of our impatience, our imprudence, our dishonesty, our cruelty, when we make of our mouths (briefly) a tabernacle for Him.
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