Cosmas and Damian: two names listed in the First Eucharistic prayer, but who were they? They were brothers who were physicians in third century Syria. Called "the money-less ones" because they ministered to the health of their clients without taking any compensation and uniting their skill with their faith, they succeeded in bringing healing to many before their martyrdom and after. They are the patrons of physicians, surgeons, pharmacists, chemists, and the blind.
Good health is on the minds of everyone, it seems, especially Senior Citizens who fill doctors offices around the world. Medicine is a billion dollar "industry" as the pursuit of bodily health keeps its wheels turning. More and more it is being demonstrated that faith plays a bigger role in healing than was previously admitted, though Cosmas and Damian were very aware of it 17 centuries ago and based their health care on it. May they help us as well as those in the medical field, give it its proper place in our "scientific world."
Bro. Rene
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