“It is Not the Healthy Who Need a Doctor, but the Sick” (Mt 9:12) Cover Image

„Nu cei sănătoși au nevoie de doctor, ci cei bolnavi” (Mt 9:12)
“It is Not the Healthy Who Need a Doctor, but the Sick” (Mt 9:12)

Author(s): Ovidiu Soare
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: EDITURA ARHIEPISCOPIEI DUNĂRII DE JOS
Keywords: illness; suffering; hopelessness; prayer; healing; salvation.

Summary/Abstract: Regardless of our state of health, we need pastoral care and care from the Church. Illness, suffering, sadness and hopelessness accompany us at every step, especially when an illness, which we see as incurable, torments us and does not give us peace. The Church teaches us to be prepared to be tested by illness, but at the same time it teaches us to pray to the Good God for our healing and to be aware, with each prayer, that we need help and healing.On the one hand, God is the one who allows everything, implicitly the diseases that fall upon us, and on the other hand, He also urges us, advises us, commands us to pray to Him, in order to receive healing from Him, healing, salvation.No one is exempt from these trials, trials which, contrary to all immediate and selfish expectations, strengthen us, make us better, more patient and set us on the path of salvation.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2024
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 123-134
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian
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