World Day of the Sick

In 2005, the World Day of the Sick had a special significance since it was the year John Paul died from a sepsis.

World Day of the Sick (Roman Catholic Church)

The pontiff used his annual message for the World Day of the Sick on Sunday to focus on the issue of euthanasia.

Cardinal Clancy has been named by the Pope as his special envoy to the ninth World Day of the Sick which will be held in Sydney on 11 February.

World Day of the Sick - nationwide campaign to distribute 10,000 copies of a book entitled Lulie's Big Journey to children who were in hospital that day (February 2005)

Addressing a church celebration of the World Day of the Sick in Clontarf, Archbishop Martin said: "We stand at an important moment regarding the future of our Irish society."

Catholic Health Australia is pleased to provide you with a resource that you may wish to use to develop a liturgical program to celebrate the tenth World Day of the Sick on 11 February 2002.

CHA has engaged the services of liturgical consultants Vivien Williams and Margaret Smith sgs in Melbourne to create the following liturgy for the 9th World Day of the Sick.

I entrust you to Mary, Mother of the Church, to whom, as I recalled at the beginning, the cathedral of Sydney, the spiritual centre of the Ninth World Day of the Sick, is dedicated.

He announced his intention to resign in Latin at the Apostolic Palace in the Sala del Concistoro, at an early morning gathering on 11 February 2013, which was the World Day of the Sick, a Vatican holy day.

Pope John Paul II had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease as early as 1991, an illness which was only disclosed later, and it is significant that he decided to create a World Day of the Sick only one year after his diagnosis.

CHAC is collaborating with CHA-US in organizing the XI Annual World Day of the Sick February 9-11, 2003 The Path to Solidarity: The Vocation of Catholic Health Care in America.

The Pope says: 'I want to inform you that I have decided to establish the 'World Day of the Sick', which is to be celebrated each year on 11th February, the liturgical memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lourdes.

Vittorio Messori, co-author of a book with him when he was merely Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, noted that the resignation came on the anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, commemorated by Catholics as the World Day of the Sick.

Since it was on 11th February in 1984 that I published the Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris on the Christian meaning of human suffering, I believe it is significant that the same day is set for the celebration of the 'World Day of the Sick'.

I therefore ask you to make the institution of the 'World Day of the Sick' known to those responsible for the health care apostolate so that, in accordance with local circumstances, its due observance may be provided for with the participation of the entire People of God: priests, religious and lay faithful.