{"id":327568,"date":"2021-08-04T14:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=327568"},"modified":"2021-08-04T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:46:36","slug":"patriarch-daniel-all-socio-medical-care-is-of-christian-origin-church-unites-prayer-with-medical-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-daniel-all-socio-medical-care-is-of-christian-origin-church-unites-prayer-with-medical-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Daniel: All socio-medical care is of Christian origin \/ Church unites prayer with medical science"},"content":{"rendered":"

In last Sunday\u2019s sermon, Patriarch Daniel recalled that the first medical institutions, both in Romania and Europe, were established by the Church. His Beatitude highlighted that the palliative care specific to the Church also involves prayer in addition to the medical act.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe first monastery hospitals (bolni\u021be), the first hospitals and pharmacies in Romania and, in general, in Orthodox countries were established by the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn each of these settlements, prayer was united with medical science – prayer, as help received from God, with the wisdom of those who were called to perform this medical service,\u201d His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel noted at the Chapel of Saint George at the Patriarchal Residence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll socio-medical care is of Christian origin. Even in European, Western, secularized states, the Church established the first medical institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

When do we become the hands of Christ\u2019s love?<\/h1>\n

The Patriarch of Romania said that \u201cthe Church has learned the care for the sick from the very life and work of the Saviour Jesus Christ, who is the Physician of bodies and souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lord Jesus Christ is called Saviour in the sense of healer. He is the Redeemer, the One who frees man from a difficult situation, the One who heals man from helplessness and restores the sick man\u2019s health and mobility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, Christ the Lord, in his name as Saviour, contains the idea of \u200b\u200ba physician, a healer, a liberator from difficult situations, from helplessness, from suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus, His Beatitude added, \u201cthe Church has a special concern always to unite prayer with medical science and to support the sick in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy this we Christians, when we have in our souls the merciful love of Christ the healer, the forgiving, then we become the hands of His love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why today\u2019s gospel passage urges every Christian to carry in their soul the merciful love of Christ that is acquired through prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we pray for the health of others, when we help those who need help, then we can say that our soul has a truly Christian culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Patriarch Daniel at St George Chapel of the Patriarchal Residence, August 1, 2021. Photo: Lumina Newspaper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Holy Cross is a source of merciful love<\/h1>\n

The Patriarch of Romania also explained why the Holy Cross is taken out for veneration on August 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo show us that the merciful love of Christ is a humble love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe showed humble obedience unto death, accepting death on the cross, and so God raised Him from death and from the dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, the Honourable and Holy Cross is a source of merciful love, a source of hope, a source of healing and a source of strengthening in communion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Physical illness calls man to seek spiritual health<\/h1>\n

The faith of the merciful helps the sick, said Patriarch Daniel, highlighting three central teachings from the gospel reading:<\/p>\n

\u201cPhysical illness calls man to seek the health of the soul and, with it, the healing of the body.\u201d
\n\u201cSecond, we see that the Saviour Jesus Christ first forgives the paralytic\u2019s sins and then heals his paralyzed body.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThird, the gospel shows us that those who brought the paralytic to Jesus for healing today represent all the servants of the Church, all the priests and believers who pray and help the sick, and especially all doctors and medical staff who help the sick to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo: Patriarch Daniel talking to an elderly woman at St Nectarios palliative centre in Buhcarest. \u00a9 Basilica.ro Files<\/p>\n

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