Sick, Illnesses
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Illness is a trial for man. It can be an opportunity to manifest great holiness, or push man to despair.
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- Illnesses and disorders[1]
- Institution of the seven sacraments: … Sacrament of the Sick[2]
- By the will of God, no physical evil attacks us.[3]
- The 12 works of mercy of the body and the spirit: Visiting the sick.[4]
- There are holy illnesses sent by the Lord to His righteous so that in the world, which makes pleasure everything and serves all to it, there may be saints who are like war hostages for the salvation of others, and who pay with themselves so that by their sufferings the mass of faults that the world accumulates daily may be expiated and which would collapse on Humanity burying it under its curse.[5]
- Every illness, being a torment and an disorder, can hide Satan and Satan can hide in an illness, use it, create it to torment and make man blaspheme God.[6]
- Different is the way the world treats the healed sick, who were sick in their flesh, from the way it treats converted sinners, that is, the sick of the spirit who find health.[7]
- It is not a fatal illness (illness of [[Lazarus of Bethany|Lazarus]), but it is the glory of God so that His power may be glorified in His Son.[8][9]