Dear Martin:

I am sorry to hear that you have bi-polar disease. This condition is certainly a trial.

At this time there is no cure for bi-polar disease. Anyone who says they have a cure is lying and a quack.

As for the alleged healer, Aiko Hormann, she is Pentecostal (Assemblies of God). There are many problems with Pentecostals, both in their theology (which is in error on many points) and in their practices of charismatic gifts.

We have had people become demonized after attending Pentecostal meetings whereby they were prayed over for healing. I advise that you not have anything to do with Mrs. Hormann.

As I mentioned, there is no cure for bi-polar disease. This is a disease of the brain. Research is underway to try to find a cure, but as yet none has been found that I am aware.

You need to be under a doctor's care and follow his instructions as to medication. Medication can help to stabilize the extremes of bi-polar disease.

As it is with any incurable disease the person must accept it as the reality and offer his suffering up to God. I am disabled myself with debilitating conditions that causes pain. I am in pain everyday. The pain is so much that I cannot stand at the stove to cook an egg. If I try I begin to double-over in pain.

Suffering is an opportunity to share that suffering with Jesus on the Cross. It is actually a privilege to suffer. Suffer is redemptive and helps to grow in spirit that we may be more like Christ.

Embrace your suffering, offer that suffering up to God, and to our Blessed Mother, for the salvation of souls. This can be a great mission for you.

There is a book by Peter Kreeft about suffering entitled, Making Sense Out of Suffering, and another one by Dom Hubert Van Zeller entitled, Suffering: The Catholic Answer: The Cross of Christ and Its Meaning for You.

I know this suffering his hard. But, keep in mind that God promises that he will not allow anything to come into our lives that would tempt us beyond our strength.

(1 Cor 10:13)  No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it.

Thus, the temptation to go to this or that healer even when that healer is questionable, the temptation to desperation, and the like, can be normal, but God gives you the way to escape those temptations.

We must always resign ourselves to God's will. I found that I became much closer to God after I was disabled. When any healer asks if I want them to pray over me, I say no. Instead, pray for God's will to be done in my life.

I would rather continue to be disabled, continue in daily pain, and be close to God, than to be free from all that and healed and take God for granted and perhaps move away from Him.

Most of the Saints suffered. Suffering was part of what made them Saints. We need to aspire to the Saints.

We have a pamphlet about Resignation or Abandonment to God entitled, Christian Resignation as a Prerequisite to Freedom. I recommend you read that too.

We will be praying for you.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary