--- title: Articles – Church Life Journal | Kimberly Belcher description: Kimberly Hope Belcher is an assistant professor who teaches sacramental theology in the Theology Department at Notre Dame and writes for Give Us This Day and PrayTell. --- Search [![churchlife](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Churchlife_Aug2016_Theme/Images/church-life-journal-white-horizontal-1.png)](http://churchlife.nd.edu/) - [Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays) - [Articles](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles) - [Blog](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post) - [Contributors](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contributors/) All posts filed under: ARTICLES ## Kimberly Belcher ![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Kimberly-Belcher-e1454529672816.jpg) Kimberly Hope Belcher is an assistant professor who teaches sacramental theology in the Theology Department at Notre Dame and writes for Give Us This Day and PrayTell. ### Recent Posts [![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Belcher-crop.jpg)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/02/11/liturgy-and-healing-prayer-for-the-sick) ## [Liturgy and Healing: Prayer for the Sick](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/02/11/liturgy-and-healing-prayer-for-the-sick) Published by [Kimberly Belcher](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/author/kimberly-belcher) Sickness and death, pain and grief—our own or others’—are perhaps the most powerful motives for human prayer. Even if someone’s doubt or indifference about God outweighs faith, sickness often leads them to ask for prayer. And when they ask, no matter how busy, how intimidated, or how apathetic we have become in our prayer life generally, most of us attempt, once again, to frame a prayer. How can s... 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