Cancer caused by hatred or depression

(Author’s note. This is a true story related to me by Sr. Raquel Reodica, RVM. Names have been changed for privacy. At the peak of her healing ministry, Sister Raquel saw about 400 wheelchair patients a day, most with terminal cancer, with cars parked outside for a kilometer along the road. The link to a free e-book, “Healing Stories of Sr. Raquel,” is given at the end of this article.)

Jessica had Stage 2 breast cancer. She went to Sister Raquel to be prayed over. She had a strong faith and was confident she would be healed. A week after the visit, she called up Sister and told her she still was not getting healed. Sister told her to visit again. Sister could discern that Jessica had a deeper problem. (The dialogue is reconstructed)

SISTER: There must be a reason why you are not getting healed. Tell me, what’s wrong.

JESSICA: (In tears) My husband has a mistress. Imagine, after 30 years of marriage, he would do this, when we are old and our children are grown up. I hate him.

SISTER: Have you talked about it?

JESSICA: Yes. He said he was sorry. He left his mistress when I got cancer.

SISTER: Then your marriage is saved.

JESSICA: No, I want a divorce.

SISTER: You must forgive him, if you want to be healed.

JESSICA: Never, Sister. I’d rather die than forgive him. I hate it that he did this after 30 years of marriage and our kids know it.

SISTER: You must clean your spirit before the Lord cleans your body. I am not the healer. The Lord decides, not me. But from my experience, people have to repent before they can be healed. When did you get cancer?

JESSICA: Two weeks after I discovered he had a mistress.

SISTER: Can you not see there is a relation? Do you know that extreme hatred can cause cancer? Jessica, there is a storm inside you.

JESSICA: (More tears) I am sorry, Sister, I cannot forgive him. He destroyed our family.

Jessica went home dejected. After a year, she called Sister again. Her breast cancer was now at Stage 4. Her breasts had hardened like stone. There were lesions with a foul smell.

JESSICA: Sister, I think I am ready to forgive.

SISTER: Are you sure?

JESSICA: (In tears once more) No, Sister, I am not sure. But I am trying to forgive.

SISTER: The Lord can help you forgive. Let’s pray to Him. Let us ask Him to give you the grace to forgive.

As they prayed, Jessica stopped crying. She suddenly became peaceful and calm. She smiled at Sister. The storm had passed instantly.

JESSICA: Thank you, Sister.

SISTER: Don’t thank me. Thank the One who healed you.

JESSICA: You mean I am healed?

SISTER: I don’t know. I think so. You tell me.

JESSICA: Thank you, Jesus.

After a week, Jessica told Sister her breast cancer was gone. Her lab results showed she was cancer-free. What took years to reach Stage 4 was suddenly Stage Zero because she finally forgave, which turned the storm inside her into calm. Her doctor could not believe it. Forgiveness heals.

Sister Raquel writes:

During the few years of my ministry as an instrument of Jesus for healing, I began to realize that, aside from physical poisons and genetic defects that cause disease and physical and mental discomfort, there are also social and psychological poisons in our own homes and in society that pre-dispose us to illness by creating certain (negative) attitudes and feelings within us.

Heart disease, suicide, mental illness, and cancer can be correlated to psychological factors. We can even be disposed to accidents psychologically. Almost all, if not all, sicknesses and bodily discomforts have psychological antecedents.

LIFE PATTERNS and ATTITUDES can predispose us to various types of disease.

Some doctors I have met say many of them are now beginning to regard the emotional realities in the lives of their patients. They have begun to look beyond the question of chemical poisons and consider the possibility of PSYCHOLOGICAL POISONS.

To go against lifelong emotional habits can be extremely difficult for most people. This is my advice to people who are unhealthy or sick. Relax and change your lifestyle. Be more gentle to yourself and to others. Learn to love deeply. Replace hatred with forgiveness. Forgiveness heals and hatred consumes. If you fail to forgive, you tear yourself inside. “Ikaw ang lugi.” (That is your misfortune).

“Healing Stories of Sister Raquel,” a free e-book = https://eastwindjournals.com/2021/08/13/healing-stories-of-sr-raquel-e-book-free-download/

Online healing prayer, pray with Sr. Raquel = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZcwNimBSg&t=19s.