A Catholic may not submit himself to faith healing which treats divine power as the automatic servant of calculated acts. We can humbly pray for what we need, be it physical, material or temporal, knowing that our Father is God and is powerful enough to give us whatever we ask, provided it is for our good. Humility enables us to admit we do not always know in what that good consists. Faith asks, knowing the Father hears us. Hope waits for His reply.
Love accepts that reply with joy.
A prayer that does not contain these three elements is a frustrating, anxious prayer. A negative answer causes guilt and introspection, fear and a feeling of hopelessness. Jesus' insistence on doing the Father's Will as the road to holiness embraces every aspect of our lives. Will is directed by infinite Wisdom, who in turn loves us with an infinite love. In joy and sorrow, sickness and health, poverty or riches, success or failure, the Father's Will is the goal of the Christian's life.