Healer Graces San Angelo

Alan Ames and many of the people that have witnessed his prayers claim that Ames has the gift of healing and has cured countless sick people. Ames visited San Angelo Tuesday and participated in a service at Holy Angels.

“Tonight there’ll be a holy mass first and then I’ll speak whatever words God wants to give me,” Ames said before the service. “After that, I will lay hands on people and pray with them. During that time there’ll be priests doing confession.”

Ames, who hails from Perth in West Australia, has traveled the world visiting Catholic churches and allegedly healing the sick. He claims to have come from a poor family in London and to have led an “extremely violent” lifestyle growing up.

“I was in a motorcycle gang with my older brother,” Perth said. “To our God and other things I did many, many terrible things. I didn’t believe in God, I just believed in myself and what I could get for myself. I lived a very bad life until one day God just touched me with his love and changed everything. It was ethereal.”

Ames said that God indicated that he should start praying for healing. After six or seven months, he had little success, but he persevered.

“I’d been praying over people a lot and nothing had been happening,” Ames said. “I was in a Catholic church in Perth and all of a sudden there’s been many, many healings. And this carried on from then. In the beginning, God was calling me to persevere, to sort of kiss my heart. Thank God I persevered because many people who are in the world have been healed by God’s grace.”

Ames claimed that his healings have restored sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf and cured cancer.

“It’s [through] the holy mass and the sacrament of confession that the healings happen,” Ames said. “My prayers just sort of compliment the sacraments that are being offered to people.”

Ames wanted to tell people that God loves them and wants to do what’s best for them. He said that God would love them, change their lives and heal them.

“I encourage people to come along with an open heart, reaching out to Jesus, calling out to Him in love and accepting His love,” Ames said. “Let Him do what’s best for you.”