Don’t wait—be the first to say sorry or smile 😊. That’s how real love begins 💕. Jesus is happy when we make peace first ✝️. Based on the Word of Life (May 1991) by Chiara Lubich
🛐 Prayer to Start with Love
Dear Jesus, You always loved first. Sorry for the times we waited for others to be kind. Thank You for showing us how to forgive. Please help us take the first step in love. Amen.
He never cured stomach pain in life—yet one prayer after his death did. Faith turned compassion into a healing legacy.
Archbishop Charles Borromeo wasn’t known for performing miracles while alive, but for living them quietly—through compassion and sacrifice. During the plague in Milan, he walked barefoot in the streets, feeding the hungry and comforting the dying.
He had nothing to do with stomach illnesses in his lifetime. Yet after his death in 1584, one story changed how people remembered him. Someone suffering from a severe stomach illness prayed to Archbishop Charles for help—and was miraculously healed. Word spread fast. Others with the same pain started praying to him too, and many claimed to find relief.
When he was canonized in 1610, people began calling him Saint Charles Borromeo, the patron against stomach ailments—for ulcers, colic, and other gut troubles that humble the strong.
Saint Charles reminds us that faith lives even in the body’s smallest ache. He didn’t heal stomachs himself, but he led people closer to the One who could.
