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Sunday, February 19, 2006
The Mentally Ill Patient: A Faithful Image of God
The Mentally Ill Patient: A Faithful Image of God

Here is an excerpt of an address Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, prepared for World Day of the Sick.

"In Christian thought it is said that these severe mental illnesses reduce man to sad conditions, like a deformed image of God, which is compared to the suffering servant of Isaiah (Isaiah 53:1-7). Yet, apart from that deformation, or rather due to it, the mentally ill person resembles our Lord on the cross; and since the cross is the only way to the resurrection, the mentally ill person, has so to say a superior level, is worthier and reaches such a level of excellence because of the magnitude of his love and the suffering he endures. "

Read the entire address at Zenit.org
Written at 1:49 PM by Luminaria2112.
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