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Life, health and salvation are gifts offered by God, while \u201cillness and suffering may be a mysterious call to seek the enlightenment and salvation of the soul, together with the desire and effort to heal the body physically\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also drew attention to the delicacy of the Saviour: \u201cThe Lord Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Father and Physician, does not humiliate the sinner through reproaches. He heals the sinful and sick person directly and discreetly, without judging him and without revealing his sins, so as not to diminish his human dignity before the community to which he belongs.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Sunday of St Gregory Palamas<\/h2>\n<p>The Patriarch also referred to St Gregory Palamas, to whom the second Sunday of Great Lent is dedicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Church has ordained that on this second Sunday of the Holy Paschal Fast \u2013 one week after the Sunday of Orthodoxy and one week before the Sunday of the Holy Cross \u2013 St Gregory Palamas, the Teacher of the Uncreated Light or of the divine glory of the Kingdom of Heaven, should be commemorated. This shows us that through the right faith the heavens are opened to us, and through prayer and holy living we receive the glory or the uncreated light of the Kingdom of Heaven, that is, the divine grace,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<h2>On fasting<\/h2>\n<p>Towards the end of his address, Patriarch Daniel briefly reflected on the meaning of fasting, a period in which \u201cwe nourish our soul with the presence and working of the grace and love of the Most Holy Trinity in our life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not a time of self-starvation or voluntary rigidity, but a time of liberation and purification from sins and selfish passions, a time of enlightenment, growth and spiritual enrichment,\u201d the Patriarch said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring this period we no longer nourish the body with products of animal origin, but only with plant-based foods that encourage ascetic discipline, since plants are largely the result of photosynthesis, that is, the assimilation of light from the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian Patriarch noted that created sunlight \u201cbecomes, through fasting and prayer, a symbol or visible garment of the uncreated light, of the heavenly grace \u2013 invisible but real \u2013 granted by God to praying people, in order to nourish and illumine their souls as a pledge of the eternal glory and joy of the Kingdom of the Most Holy Trinity\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_561695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-561695\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/slujire-resedinta-8-martie-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-561695 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/slujire-resedinta-8-martie-2026-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/slujire-resedinta-8-martie-2026-1024x572.jpg 1024w, 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