The Fix is In
March 9, 2026
When we suffer, especially when it comes to having a terminal illness, it is easy to think that the game is over, all is lost.
On vacation many years ago, after passing two young couples on a double date following two elderly couples, I heard someone say, “It’s a cruel joke.” God did not create us to get sick and die. This was not the original plan. In the garden, God forewarned our first parents by saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” (Genesis 2:16-17). The father of lies convinced our first parents that God was a liar and could not be trusted saying, “You will not die. For God knows when you eat of it. your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:4-5).
We know what happened, our first parents disobeyed God resulting in sin and death entering the world and people ever since, far and wide, decide for themselves what is good and evil. But that was not the end of the story, for the fix is in. “But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ So through God, you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir.” (Ephesians 4:4-7)
The Son of God became the Son of Man to do two things: to die, so we who are sick and old may live eternally, and to start a Church in which we find our way to heaven. This fix also includes a new refurbished body that will be resplendent, like the body of Jesus during His transfiguration if we only follow Him. We will then become sons and daughters, heirs to eternal life.
Jesus, the Divine Physician healed people of their physical ailments without pills or scalpels during His public life. For us, He has given us the medicine of the sacraments and if we cooperate with these graces, He will raise our bodies on the last day to be perfect and brilliant. He will so without any surgical intervention. This is what the Gospel is all about. Yes, the fix is truly in.
My prayer is that all of us continue climbing the mountain of Lent to Easter when we will celebrate this miraculous fix. Please be assured of my prayers for you, your families and intentions during this most holy time. Glory and thanks be to God!
Fr. Christopher Kubat is the national chaplain for the Catholic Medical Association.