Sick, Illnesses

The sick awaiting the passage of Jesus - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum.

Illness is a trial for man. It can be an opportunity to manifest great holiness, or to drive man to despair.

In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"

• Illnesses and disorders
• Institution of the seven Sacraments: … Sacrament of the Sick
• By the will of God, no physical evil attacks us.
• The 12 works of mercy of the body and of the spirit: Visiting the sick.
• There are holy illnesses sent by the Lord to his righteous so that in the world, which makes pleasure its everything and serves everything to it, there may be saints who are like hostages of War for the salvation of others, and who pay with themselves so that through their sufferings the mass of faults that the world accumulates daily is expiated and would otherwise collapse on Humanity, burying it under its curse.
• Every illness, being a torment and an disorder, can hide Satan and Satan can hide within an illness, use it, create it to torment and make God blasphemed.
• Different is the way the world treats healed sick, who were ill in their flesh, from the way it treats converted sinners, that is, the sick in The Spirit who find health.
• It is not a fatal illness (illness of Lazarus), but it is the glory of God so that his power may be glorified in his Son.