"Should Catholics still pray for others to be healed?"

YES!! The answer is yes. 100%. Absolutely.

Today's Gospel had me thinking about the healing ministry of the Apostles. Jesus literally told His disciples to "take nothing for your journey and heal the sick..."So are we called to do that too?

Yes- without a doubt. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is "intended to strengthen those who are being tried by illness" (CCC 1511) and may certainly bring about physical or emotional healing!

In addition to this, we are called as Christians to pray and intercede for those who are sick that they might be healed.

The Catechism (1506-1513) says:

• We share in Jesus' ministry of compassion and healing.

• The Lord renews this mission: "In my name... They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover."

• These signs and healings demonstrate that Jesus is truly the God who saves.

• The Holy Spirit gives the charism of healing to manifest the power of the Risen Lord

• The Church has received this charge from the Lord and strives to carry it out by taking care of the sick as well as by accompanying them with her prayer of intercession.

  
  

Jesus says, "...whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it." (Jn 14:12-14)

If this is true, then when we pray for healing in Jesus' name, we can have faith that, in God's timing, He will do it. We can pray with faith and expectation, always in submission to God’s perfect will.

Though not every single person we pray for will be healed at that moment or in the way that we expect, Jesus can and wants to heal them. He knows what they need for their body, soul, and salvation.

Friends, I've seen miracles. I saw a woman get up and walk who hadn't walked for a long time, my own dislocated knee shifted back into place, and a woman held her arm over her head when she could barely move it before. And this is just a tiny glimpse.

Pray for healing in the name of Jesus. Intercede for your Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Let the Holy Spirit work through you.