Miracles remind us that healing is in the Church and
there is no need for Christians to search for wonderworkers and healers outside
of their parish. There, in the local church, in one's own parish is the
fullness of salvation, every form of healing, and of the Holy Spirit's gifts.
Of course, when a parishioner comes to their parish priest the priest can send
that person to go to another priest for counseling. And this all with the
blessing of the bishop. Together with the parish priest the person can be sent
to someone the parish priest considers to be more spiritually developed. But,
again, not to expect that other spiritual father to solve their problems in a
hocus-pocus, magical method.
Everything that happens in our lives happens by God's
will, and this applies to our temptations and problems, and when we pray that
we might defeat our temptations, for our spiritual well being, we always end
our prayer with the words may it be as the Lord wills for He knows better than
we do what is good for us. And so, on this day, let us pray that God grant unto
us a pure faith which above all means that we might place our trust in Him and
His Church and those who have been appointed by the Church to concern
themselves with our spiritual well being.
Bishop Porfirije of Jegar (Serbia)
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