0992 Helping to bear the suffering of others.... work of redemption....

July 3, 1939: Book 19

You participate in the lord's work of redemption if you willingly take the suffering of your fellow human beings on your shoulders, help them carry it and, in view of Jesus' suffering on the cross, humbly bear everything the lord sends you. Only through suffering can humanity be redeemed, for suffering must be overcome and diminished through active love, and only active love can accomplish the work of redemption. And love again would have no field of activity if suffering on earth did not demand alleviation and could not be controlled by love that has become an act. And humanity so often turns away so as not to have the suffering of its fellow human being before its eyes, thereby hardening its hearts and is so infinitely far removed from being redemptively active on earth. There is not one among men who does not need loving help, and the need of the time gives everyone more than enough opportunity to lend a helping hand and assist their neighbour in every kind of need. Whose heart is willing to help, he will also feel where his help is needed, he will recognize the other person's plight and immediately step in; and he will receive support from the spiritual side, which is also responsible for the care of earthly beings. For the work of these is also only constantly aimed at saving erring souls in the beyond as well as on earth. Their heart, which beats with love for all these souls, recognizes the beings' plight and immediately steps in to help, both in a spiritual as well as in an earthly respect. For the two go hand in hand. All earthly help results in unspeakable blessings, for it is a labour of love and thus the human being participates in the divine saviour's act of salvation, even if he is still unaware of it. And thus the human being should endeavour to help and alleviate wherever he sees his fellow human being in need, for what he neglects to do on earth he will have to make up for in the beyond, yet on earth it will bear immeasurable fruit....

Amen

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