What is modern man afraid of? In fact, everyone has their own fears. Someone does not stop anxiety associated with work, which, given the rather difficult situation in the world, is not surprising, someone is afraid of losing a loved one, someone is afraid of being left alone. And someone spends all their free time on a "pilgrimage" to the doctors. And again, there is nothing strange in this.
Diseases of the twenty-first century
"I've found every disease except childbed fever!" - exclaims the classic. In fact, everything is not as funny as it seems, because diseases, in particular cancer, have become much more insidious than hundreds of years ago. Now a person can live and not know that he has the fourth stage of cancer. As a rule, he is doomed already at the third stage of the disease, although, of course, he can live outside the hospital for some time.
Miraculous healings
It is not known whether cancer existed at the time of Christ or not. The first mention of this terrible disease was found in Egyptian manuscripts, but how widespread it was in Palestine and Israel is unknown. But Christ healed the lepers, the blind, the lame, the deaf, the dumb…And raised the dead. After His ascension, this power was given to the apostles, and from Tradition we know how the shadow of St. Peter, which fell on the deceased, resurrected him. At present, according to those who are faced with serious illnesses of their loved ones or have been ill themselves, prayer to St. Luke works real miracles.
Miracles of St. Luke of Crimea
He was once a doctor and professor of medicine. His works on purulent surgery have earned many awards, but Orthodox people revere him as an amazing healer, and the prayer to St. Luke for he alth, read from the bottom of his heart, no doubt helps and comforts.
No matter how much skeptics grin incredulously, there is something in the world that no one can explain. Believers call it a miracle, atheists - unexplored features of the human body. It is useless to argue here, because, firstly, "the dog barks, and the caravan moves on," and secondly, the prayer to St. Luke for healing, like other prayers, by the way, helps only those who believe that they will be heard, believes in its power.
Not so long ago, the public was stirred up by the news that a certain young pianist recovered the connective tissues of his fingers after a serious injury. According to the young man, he was helped by the prayer to St. Luke, which his mother read literally for days.
Another person, by the way, a public figure, once told how, waking up after a complex heart operation,I saw Saint Luke standing near his couch with his hands raised in prayer. The mother and wife, who were waiting for the result of the operation, later said that they prayed to the saint all the time for help. Begged. And there are hundreds and thousands of such cases.
Now the grandchildren of St. Luke of Crimea also work as doctors and note that the phrase once said by Professor Voyno-Yasenetsky (Luke) in response to a question about the soul has entered family folklore. They sincerely believe that a doctor, and even more so a surgeon, cannot be an atheist, and they dream that the prayer to St. Luke will one day be read by doctors all over the world.
