“According to the Holy Fathers, diseases are given for spiritual purification and the salvation of the soul. It is often through a disease that a man finds his way to God. We may not always know the providence of God in our lives, why a this or that trial was sent to us. But our blessed duty is to change our sinful lives for the better and spiritually grow in Christian virtues.”
(Metropolitan Onuphry of Ukraine, October homily on COVID)