Today, H.H Pope Tawadros II delivered his weekly sermon in Wednesday’s meeting from St. Mary & St. Bishoy’s Church in St. Mark’s Cathedral in Abbasia; in the presents of a number of church’s pontiffs, the sermon was also broadcast on Christian satellite channels and C.O.C channel of the Church’s media center on the Internet.
H.H continued his contributions on the Sundays of Lent, to which he dedicated a series “Where are you?” as he addressed the verses of the Gospel of the Sixth Sunday Mass of Lent by John Al-Bashir, chapter 5:1-9,
and indicated that we can meet Christ in the place of healing (mercy), taking as a model the interview of Jesus Christ with the patient of the pool of Bethesda.
In the homily, His Holiness presented the most intractable diseases of this patient through 3 types:
1- People’s selfishness: “I have no man.”
2- Physical illness: “Get up, pick up your bed and walk.”
3- Sin: “Serve no more.”
His Holiness reviewed some ideas that achieve meeting Christ in the place of healing:
1- In the person of the doctor and with his word, whether diagnosing or performing an operation,
“for medicine comes from the Highest” (Si. 38:2).
2- In the nursing person, you hear the kind phrases
“Get up… and walk”.
3- Through scientific techniques and medical devices that are the product of the mind and the grace of God that worked in the minds of scientists to benefit us.
4- Christ takes care of you and heals you through medicine
“The Lord created medicines from the earth, and a wise man does not hate them.”
5- Through the faith of another patient next to you, your faith will be strengthened and your troubles will be eased.
In the first week of Lent, H.H began a new series of contributions that will continue throughout the fasting period, through God’s question to Adam, “Where are you?” H.H indicated that God is always searching for us, and fasting presents us with 7 places where we meet with God on Fasting, and this is the fifth episode of the series.
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