A HEALTHY MIND MAKES THE BODY HEALTHY – OR AN APOLOGY FOR MAN’S MENTAL HEALTH
A HEALTHY MIND MAKES THE BODY HEALTHY – OR AN APOLOGY FOR MAN’S MENTAL HEALTH

Summary/Abstract: We are living times when disease has become a subject as scary as it is obssessive. We hear people talking around us more and more about various forms of cancer – this disease of the century, whose cure is hard to find. Its weight burdens not just the body, ruining it, but also the psychic, disarming the sufferer and isolating him from the others. This is why I consider that, in order to face such a tense and discouraging state, it is necessary to understand what man is and how disease ought to be received. Only understanding man as body and soul and bringing into light the influence of the soul’s integrity on physical health, can one offer to the man of our days the hope of a brighter life, although shadowed by the presence of a merciless disease. Such an attitude relies on faith in God – our Creator and Healer – and is built on the awareness regarding the state of sin darkening the soul, which needs to be freed by repentance. The Church, by its divine services, especially by the Mystery of the Confession of Sins, offers the chance of the meeting of the physically and spiritually ill man with God – “the Doctor of our souls and bodies”, so that by this relation man may receive bodily but especially spiritual healing.

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