How does prayer help St. Luke?

What is a modern man afraid of? In fact, everyone has their own fears. Someone does not stop the anxiety associated with work, which, given the rather difficult situation in the world, it is not surprising that someone is afraid of losing a loved one, someone is afraid of the fate of remaining alone. And someone spends all their free time on a "pilgrimage" for doctors. And in this, again, there is nothing strange.

Diseases of the twenty-first century

"I found all the diseases in my body , except for the maternity fever!" Exclaims the classic. In fact, everything is not as funny as it seems, because diseases, in particular, oncological diseases, have become much more insidious than hundreds of years ago. Now a person can live and not know that he has a fourth stage of cancer. As a rule, he is doomed already at the third stage of the disease, although for some time he can live outside the hospital, of course, can.

Wonderful Healing

It is not known whether there was cancer in the time of Christ, or not. The first mention of this terrible disease was found even in Egyptian manuscripts, but it is not known how widespread it was in the territories of Palestine and Israel. But Christ healed the lepers, the blind, the lame, the deaf, the dumb ... And raised the dead. After His ascension, this authority was given to the apostles, and from Tradition we know how the shadow of St. Peter, who fell upon the dead, resurrected him. At present, as those who have encountered serious illnesses of their loved ones say, or have been ill himself, real miracles are performed by prayer to Saint Luka.

The Miracles of St. Luke the Crimean

Once he was a doctor and professor of medicine. His writings on purulent surgery deserve many awards, but Orthodox people honor him as an amazing healer, and St. Luke's prayer for health, Read with all my heart, no doubt, and helps, and comforts.

No matter how much skeptics distrust, there is something in the world that no one can explain. Believers call this a miracle, atheists - unexplored features of the human body. Here it is useless to argue, because, firstly, "the dog barks and the caravan goes," and secondly, the prayer to St. Luke about healing, As, indeed, other prayers, helps only those who believe in what will be heard, believe in its power.

Not so long ago, the public stirred up the news that a young pianist had recovered from a serious trauma the connective tissues of the fingers of his hand. According to the young man, he was helped by a prayer to St. Luke, which the mother read literally for days.

Another person, incidentally, a public figure, once told how, having recovered from a complicated operation on his heart, he saw standing with his prayer-raised hand near his couch. Mother and wife, who were waiting for the result of the operation, later said that they had always prayed for help from the saint. You begged. And there are hundreds and thousands of such cases.

Now the grandchildren of St. Luke the Crimean also work as doctors and note that the phrase once spoken by Professor Voyno-Yasenetsky (Luka), in response to a question about the soul, has become part of family folklore. They sincerely believe that a doctor, and even more a surgeon, can not be an atheist, and dream that the prayer to Saint Luka will one day be read by doctors all over the world.