But we don’t accept it too readily - not in my humble opinion. For starters we do seek often extremely aggressive medical treatment (at least I hope we do!) Which is fitting and right, since medicine is another of God’s gifts. That in itself shows that we don’t JUST accept illness.
And we pray mightily for healing of the sick (just look in the prayer intentions section of these forums!) We have priests sacramentally anoint the sick. In my own diocese there are WEEKLY healing masses as well as other masses where all the sick of the parish can be sacramentally anointed.
In short we try, as the people around Christ and the Apostles did in their time, to seek healing by any means possible. Do you think they healed every single person who asked or who sought physical healing from them? We can be reasonably sure they didn’t. Jesus said ‘you will always have the poor with you’. I’m sure he could have added ‘you will always have the sick as well’.
