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7036 Love work on departed....

February 7, 1958: Book 75

To remember all souls which are in spiritual hardship is a labour of love of greatest effect, for these souls receive strength through loving remembrance which they feel beneficially and which can also change their will. The hardship of the souls in the beyond is particularly great because loving thoughts rarely follow them when they have left earth. But only these loving thoughts still have an effect beyond the grave, they are, to a certain extent, benefits which people on earth can bestow upon their departed. And loving thoughts are also the only means to help them in spiritual adversity. And every person who takes care of them in prayer, who is prompted by love to appeal for help for these souls, is practicing unselfish neighbourly love which truly has an effect. It is an extremely agonizing state for the souls when they are completely forgotten by people on earth, when no-one lovingly remembers them and therefore they receive no supply of strength which signifies loving intercession on their behalf.... And for these souls it can take an infinitely long time until they arise from their lethargy, until they feel a small improvement of their situation. And this happens when prayers ascend for all unredeemed souls, when people on earth also remember those who have no loving intercessors on earth, when a person takes pity on their fate and wants to help them to come to the light as well. But since people are not very convinced that the soul lives on after death, they give little thought to the fate of those who have passed away before them. They consider their existence to be finished, and they seldom occupy themselves with them, which would already mean a relief for those souls. But often the souls bring themselves to mind by suddenly intruding into people's thoughts.... And then you humans should also dwell with them in thought for a longer time, you should lovingly remember those who bring themselves to mind in this way, because this is a silent request for help in their adversity. And you can help them.... by remembering them with love, by only sincerely wishing that they may be well, that they need not suffer and that you.... if you believe.... commend them to God in prayer. Yet the surest help and most successful means for their salvation from darkness is to always point them in thought to Jesus Christ, Who alone is their saviour and to Whom they must entrust themselves in order to emerge from their adversity. Therefore, anyone who is religious himself truly also has the opportunity to help the souls in the beyond attain beatitude if his will of love grasps them.... For for the sake of human love Jesus Christ shows mercy to those souls to whom this love applies. And if you humans ask God for His merciful help for those souls which have to do without human intercession, He will also give them strength for your sake and open up every possibility for them to reach the light. And your prayer will soften their hardened hearts, they will willingly come to you and will only be of good will towards you, for the souls which are still completely under satanic influence will resist every supply of strength and these will also be prevented from working on you in unkindness. But you don't know how significant heartfelt prayer is for the suffering souls.... You don't know that through such a prayer whole multitudes are released from their torpor, that they desire to live and that they can then also be worked on again by beings of light which approach them in disguise and offer them their help. Love always has to break the first chains and then a supply of strength is possible, and the ascent from darkness to light is assured to those beings.

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers