Let's not get used to the pain of those around us: PS Iachint de Pacific evokes the holy doctors without moneytranslated

"Let us not get used to the pain of those around us, let us carry our cross patiently, like Lazarus, let us listen to the word of God while we have time and give with joy what we have received as a gift, following the example of the Saints without silver doctors Cosmas and Damian", exhorted on Sunday the Hierarch Vicar Iachint de Pacific of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand.

The hierarch celebrated the Holy Liturgy at the Radu Vodă Monastery in the Capital, where he spoke about the Parable of the Merciless Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus. The merciless rich man was guilty of precisely this indifference to his neighbor's pain. "Sin begins when wealth closes our eyes and heart," His Eminence said.

By contrast, poor Lazarus "was saved by poverty borne with humility and hope in God. In the same way, our illness, loneliness, the infirmities of old age, borne with prayer and without grumbling, become for us the way to the Kingdom of God."

We don't need miracles to know how to live The vicar priest also referred to the words of Abraham in this parable given by the Savior Jesus Christ, including the last sentence given by the patriarch who became a symbol of charity and love: "If...