Bishop Ignatius: The moment God comes into our lives and heals us, we become bright peopletranslated

"The moment God comes into our lives and heals us, we become bright people, with good thoughts, with an enlightened mind and full of wisdom," Bishop Ignatius of Hus emphasized on Sunday. His Eminence officiated the consecration service of the Cârja Parish church.

Starting from the episode of the healing of the two demonized from the land of Gadara, the hierarch showed that one of the great challenges of spiritual life is not to identify man with the sin he commits.

"In general, when we are faced with evil, we fail to make an essential dissociation between the evil itself and the person who is doing that evil. We confuse them and, unfortunately, we rush with a lot of force, with a lot of negative energy against the person."

"In the spiritual tradition of our Church, there is a word of particular force and reference: we must not hate the person, but the sin, or that which acquires the expression of evil and materializes in sin or passions," His Eminence also said.

Sin dehumanizes man The Reverend Father Ignatius explained that the two demonized from Gadara ended up losing their freedom and ability to live in communion with...