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PRAYER and MEDICINE

GIGANTIC POWERS IN COMBINED APOSTOLATES AGAINST DISEASES

The Apostolate of Divine Mercy and Healing, as I understand it from the holistic point of view, with God and with man, work powerfully together. Their combined efforts wage holistic health forces in the human battle against diseases -- all diseases which produce sickness and possible death.

Prayer and Medicine essentially, with the Guidance of Divine Providence, look both to the Almighty Creator of Life and the earth's Godly created resources for remedies in preserving human life. The Divine Guidance resourcefully has bestowed upon mankind the power of knowledge and the preeminence of wisdom to discern the appropriately tested natural elements of earth in their research perseverance -in their never ending battle- against the forces of evil diseases.

It is our goal, therefore, both by a prayer mission and the profession of medical science to unite effortlessly our minds, our wills and our labors. With and through God's "most/mightiest" and "greatest" human gift, the power of the mind, and the powerful insights of wisdom, man with his hands in the hands of his Creator, God, can assist to eradicate the curse of this evil called disease.

The Almighty has not forgotten nor abandoned his human creation. The powers of prayer, the research of medical science and its therapy are indeed a tremendous Divine Grace to conquer these awful scourges of diseases inflicting inevitably someday, somehow, somewhere every human person.

The Apostolate, as also many other health professionals marvelously and efficiently perform, be they spiritual or civic, genuinely dedicate themselves respectfully -and ultimately- to the actuality of the Divine Causative Power of Life, to Yahweh, to Christ with his followers in the valid Christian belief recognizing a Divine Physician. Together these spiritual and medicinal forces nobly and with some form of moral certitude explore the hopeful ways to a healthy, preventive, medicinal, curative, and restorative security of life. . They endlessly probe a thousand and million ways to and in medicine and therapy.

Regardless from which starting point those of us who probe the health concerns come from, our earnest battle fundamentally is to combat disease and its poison affecting mankind's healthy existence. We eventually must come to the reality that this evil of sickness and death flow from the realism of its origin, and that is, regardless of personal subjective interpretations, original sin.

Therefore, together both by prayer and by medicine, men and women both from the past, present and future, must never tire to victoriously combat the scourges of sickness and disease.

BUT:

Let it never be forgotten nor purposely ignored, and all things being as they are, that the diseases of the soul, the diseases of the body, the diseases of the spirit need a divine Savior-a Divine Healer. Peoples from all over the globe, sooner or later, in truth, are looking for a Savior whom they can touch and see - a Savior whom they can believe and trust. They crave a Redeemer for body, mind and spirit who not only promises, but factually offers insights and means to a realistic Rainbow of Hope - a better tomorrow.

Let both the religious leaders of our souls, and the medical scientists of our bodily health, be they as were men and women of old ( Dr. Emile Zola, Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich, Madame Curie, Louis Pasteur ), or those of the powerful NOW, profoundly grasp that in actuality the diseases of the body cannot be completely healed until the diseases of the soul are eradicated - i.e. hatred, jealousy, envy, ignorance, violence, and a host of others.

Let us ask God today, and every day, to accept our prayer and our efforts.

May God have His way with our human good will and hard work?

May men and women of Good Will work together in the devotion to be victorious in and to this ideal.