Rebuilding the Church …one heart at a time
Our Church needs Healing
Our Church leaders are hungry for the healing love of God. We want our priests and leaders to be Jesus for us, but they are sinners in need of healing just like you and me. Who is going to minister to our ministers and help our leaders so they can continue to serve us with their whole hearts?
A Call to Rebuild
At San Damiano Ministries, we echo the call that St. Francis received to rebuild the Church. We believe God wants to restore each person—each living stone—to their baptismal luster, healing their identity and confirming them in mission so that they find their place in the Church. Then, as the living stones are built up together and united in God, radiant in His love, we believe the Church will be so beautiful that the whole world will run to her.
Our Mission
San Damiano Ministries exists to rebuild the Church from within by providing healing ministry to its members—enabling them to live in the freedom of their baptismal identity, and equipping them to share God’s healing love with the world. We minister to clergy, religious, therapists, and lay leaders to carry out this mission.
Our Strategy
Only God can minister to everyone, so how can we make the greatest impact knowing that we can only minister to a few? We believe the answer is by ministering to leaders. As the leaders of the Church experience God’s healing love and are equipped to share it, the Church as a whole will experience God’s healing love.
One-on-ones: prayer ministry for personal transformation
Formation: equipping leaders with tools for healing ministry
Retreats: intensive healing experiences of prayer and formation
Our Initiatives
Like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house…
—1 Peter 2:5
The Story of San Damiano
The year was 1205…
Along the hillside of a small Italian town, there stood an old, broken-down church with a young man inside, kneeling on its cold stone floor. The years had… Read More.