compassionate and tender heart. Nurses and all Healthcare Professionals are entrusted with delivering the Lord’s healing grace from His heavenly hospital. Through them Our Divine Physician visits His sick children, offering them His most efficacious aid: merciful love, forgiveness, healing and hope. Our faith, our confidence in Jesus and His healing power and mercy, and our deeply caring and merciful disposition towards our patients makes God’s spiritual and physical healing possible. God’s grace, except in certain instances, does not replace medical care, but very often enhances speedier recovery to health, restores peace of heart and instills hope. Be always merciful as I am merciful. Love everyone out of love for Me, even your greatest enemies, so that My mercy may be fully reflected in your heart(1695). Most dear to Me is the soul that strongly believes in My goodness and has complete trust in Me. I heap My confidence upon it and give it all it asks (453). Spiritual Nursing: Inspiration & Invitation Through St. Faustina, the Lord reminds us of the spiritual value of caring for patients. While in the hospital for treatment of tuberculosis, she heard the bell in the next room. Though extremely ill, she rendered a service to a seriously sick person. Returning to her room, she suddenly saw the Lord Jesus, who said: My daughter, you gave Me greater pleasure by rendering Me that service than if you had prayed for a long time. I answered, “But it was not to You, Jesus, but to that patient that I rendered this service.” And the 11
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