{"id":7656,"date":"2022-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/the-church-is-a-hospital\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:30:09","slug":"the-church-is-a-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-church-is-a-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church is a Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is in crisis. This was left behind by the pandemic, the economic erosion and the wars\u2026! I did not overlook the mention of sins. I consider that the devastation they leave behind in us needs no mention. How does the world heal? This is a question which presumes that we remember that Man, as a unity, is a being of spirit, soul and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23). I will explain the word. If you review our Tradition, we do not believe that, when Jesus healed the sick whom the Scriptures said He healed, He only healed their apparent ailments, but healed the whole human being. In this sense, it has been stated in our Tradition that the Church is a hospital, that is, the place where total healing is sought. Am I saying that resorting to physicians on earth is a denial of God and his Tradition? I have never once entered myself into this fabricated debate between God and science. God\u2019s action cannot be restrained. These lines are a call to strengthen our hearts with the love of God, without Whom there is no complete healing for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is in crisis. This was left behind by the pandemic, the economic erosion and the wars\u2026! I did not overlook the mention of sins. I consider that the devastation they leave behind in us needs no mention. How does the world heal? This is a question which presumes that we remember that Man, ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1493,2459,1276,1727,1476],"class_list":["post-7656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-faith","tag-church-as-hospital","tag-divine-love","tag-orthodox-tradition","tag-spiritual-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7936,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions\/7936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}