Abstract:
This study aimed to reflect the care in the pastoral practice developed with the
people who live with HIV/Aids and enrich it with texts that reflect on this
practice. In this study an interdisciplinary approach was used. The study also
reflects about the church, considering that the people, who live with HIV/Aids,
are parts its body. In this perspective the question about the person s position
as well as the position of the Church in combating the epidemic was raised. By
revising the literature, a critical reading has been done, looking for ways to help
the caregiver in his/her pastoral practice. Taking care of life, taking care of
himself, taking care of another and be cared by God that s how this first moment
envy. The description of the pastoral practice developed at the public hospital
Hospital Centenário in São Leopoldo, RS, is introduced with the training of
visitors and the organization of the spiritual visitation in the hospital. Lastly, this
study intent to show the challenges that the illness (sickness) brings to the
Church as a faith community, Christians individual persons and society. There
is a need for the Church to reflect about herself, her theology; the ways the
Word was conceded, how to care, listen, forgive, touch, and allow life and to be
faithful to her call today, allowing the cure of life.
