Do You Want to Be Healed?: A 10-Day Scriptural Retreat with Jesus

by Bob Schuchts, Fr. John Burns (Foreword by)

Overview

“Do you want to be healed?”

Jesus asks that question several times in the Bible—of the woman at the well, Bartimaeus the blind man, the woman caught in adultery, the rich young man—and he asks the same of you as well.

Do You Want to Be Healed? is a 10-day personal retreat that uses a healing process similar to the one found in the author Bob Schuchts’s bestselling book Be Healed.

Each day of the do-it-yourself retreat engages you with a question Jesus asked his followers and uses the traditional practice of lectiodivina (divine reading) to dive into a scriptural scene where Jesus heals the spiritually and physically sick.

Through the five movements of reading, meditation, prayer, contemplation, and action, you will encounter the biblical figures who received the healing words of Jesus, you will undergo your own spiritual healing and discover your personal response to Jesus’s most probing questions, including:

• Do you want to be made well?
• What are you thinking in your heart?
• Has no one condemned you?
• Can you drink the cup?
• Have you come to believe? and
• Do you love me more than these?

 

Through these questions and the healing answering them brings about, you will come to understand the principles of spiritual healing—such as facing your brokenness, acknowledging your sin and shame, and discovering the healing power of the sacraments—Schuchts shares in Be Healed.

Those who have already read Be Healed will be drawn deeper into their healing with a refresher on the core principles of Schuchts’s work. The book is also perfect for those who want to begin the process of spiritual healing. Do You Want to Be Healed? also is an essential resource for pastors, spiritual directors, therapists, and those who help lead others in an integration of their human and spiritual formation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646801589
Publisher:	Ave Maria Press
Publication date:	08/05/2022
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	382,853
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bob Schuchts is the bestselling author of Be Healed, Be Transformed, Be Devoted, and Be Restored. He is the founder of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida, and cohost of the Restore the Glory podcast with Jake Khym.

After receiving his doctorate in family relations from Florida State University in 1981, Schuchts became a teacher and counselor. While in private practice, he also taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Florida State and Tallahassee Community College. Schuchts later served on faculty at the Theology of the Body Institute and at the Center for Biblical Studies—where he taught courses on healing, sexuality, and marriage—and was a guest instructor for the Augustine Institute. He volunteered in parish ministry for more than thirty years.

He retired as a marriage and family therapist in December 2014.

Schuchts has two daughters and ten grandchildren. His wife, Margie, died in 2017.

Fr. John Burns is a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He is the author of the bestselling books Adore: A Guided Advent Journal for Prayer and Meditation and Lift Up Your Heart: A 10-Day Personal Retreat with St. Francis de Sales. Ordained in 2010, Burns has served as an associate pastor and pastor in Milwaukee in addition to being an adjunct professor of moral theology at the Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology. He completed a doctorate in moral theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome in 2019. His doctoral research focused on the theology of healing through forgiveness.

Burns speaks at conferences, preaches for missions, and directs retreats throughout the country. He works extensively with the Sisters of Life and St. Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, and has given retreats, conferences,and spiritual direction for the sisters in Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Table of Contents

Foreword Fr. John Burns ix

Introduction xvii

Day 1 "Who Will Satisfy Your Thirst?" 1

Awakening Holy Desire: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (John 4:7-29)

Day 2 "Do You Want to be Well?" 13

Rekindling Our Hope: Jesus and the Man at the Pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-15)

Day 3 "Why Do You Call Me Good?" 25

Prioritizing Pure Love: Jesus and the Rich Official (Luke 18:18-30)

Day 4 "Do You Believe That I Can Do This?" 37

Restoring Our Faith: Jesus and the Two Blind Men (Matthew 9:27-31, 35-38)

Day 5 "Do You Know the Father's Love?" 49

Reclaiming Our Inheritance: Jesus Tells the Parable of Two Sons (Luke 15:11-32)

Day 6 "What Are You Thinking in Your Heart?" 63

Healing from the Inside Out: Jesus and the Paralyzed Man (Luke 5:17-26)

Day 7. "Has No One Condemned You?" 75

Embracing God's Mercy: Jesus and the Adulterous Woman (John 8:2-12)

Day 8 "Can You Drink The Cup?" 87

Redeeming Our Suffering: Jesus and His Disciples (Part 1) (Mark 10:35-45)

Day 9 "Have You Come to Believe?" 99

Unleashing the Sacraments: Jesus and His Disciples (Part 2) (John 20:19-29)

Day 10 "Do You Love Me More Than These?" 111

Resurrecting Our Mission: Jesus and Peter (John 21:1, 7, 9, 12-17)

Conclusion 123

Notes 127

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The path that lies before you will reveal something profoundly true, if you have eyes to see: Your story and your life are of intense interest to God, who wishes to make you well.” —From the foreword by Fr. John Burns

“I am confident that this retreat experience has the potential to change lives forever.” —Archbishop Alexander Sample, Archdiocese of Portland

“Experience this scriptural retreat, because when Jesus brings the word of his power to bear on your honest yearnings, what happens to them is so profound that you will never be the same.” —Sonja Corbitt, author of Unleashed

“Bob Schuchts has a uniquely powerful gift in helping people approach the Lord with simple but expectant faith. This book is a welcome and reliable guide to helping ordinary Christians come to know the healing love of Jesus in areas of physical, emotional, and spiritual pain.” —Fr. Mathias Thelen, president of Encounter Ministries

"As a busy mom of 4, getting away on retreat is extremely challenging. Do You Want to Be Healed? Allowed me to experience powerful moments of meditative prayer on my own schedule and in my own home. Using lectio divina to place myself in moments from scripture allowed me to encounter Christ and the gift of his healing love in a new way." —Michele Faehnle, coauthor of Divine Mercy for Moms