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 to lose a loved one, someone is afraid of the fate of being alone. And someone spends all his free time on the “pilgrimage” to the doctors. And again, there is nothing strange about this.
Diseases of the twenty first century
"I found all the diseases except maternal fever!" - exclaims the classic. In fact, everything is not as funny as it seems, since diseases, in particular, oncological, have become much more insidious than hundreds of years ago. Now a person may 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 for some time outside the hospital.
Miraculous healings
It is not known whether cancer existed in the time of Christ or not. The first mention of this terrible disease was discovered in Egyptian manuscripts, but how widespread it was in Palestine and Israel is not known. But Christ healed lepers, blind, lame, deaf, dumb ... And he raised the dead. After His ascension, this authority was given to the apostles, and from Tradition we know how the shadow of St. Peter, falling on the deceased, resurrected him. At present, according to those who have encountered serious illnesses of their loved ones or have been ill on their own, real miracles are performed by prayer to St. Luke.
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 a prayer to St. Luke for health, read from the bottom of my heart, without a doubt, and helps, and comforts.
No matter how much skeptics grinned incredulously, there is something in the world that no one can explain. Believers call it a miracle, atheists call it the unexplored features of the human body. It is useless to argue here, because, firstly, “the dog barks, but the caravan goes on,” and secondly, the prayer to St. Luke for healing, like, however, other prayers, helps only those who believe in what will be heard, believe in its strength.
Not so long ago, the public stirred up the news that a young pianist had recovered the connective tissue of his fingers after a serious injury. According to the young man, he was helped by a prayer to St. Luke, which his mother read literally for days.
Another person, by the way, a public figure, once told how, having regained consciousness after a complicated heart operation, he saw St. Luke standing near his couch with his hands prayerfully raised. Mother and wife, who were waiting for the result of the operation, later said that they always prayed to the saint for help. Begged. And there are hundreds and thousands of such cases.
Now the grandchildren of St. Luke of Krymsky also work as doctors and note that the phrase once said by Professor Voyno-Yasenetsky (Luke) in response to a question about the soul, entered the family folklore. They sincerely believe that a doctor, let alone a surgeon, cannot be an atheist, and dream that a prayer to St. Luke will one day be read by doctors all over the world.