Mourning for the departing ....

B.D. No. 1402 April 30th 1940

You should be concerned for the living, but not weep for those whom the lord calls away when the time comes. And so you must submit to the divine will and take comfort in the lord. For God is love .... He does not send you sorrow and affliction so that you may suffer, but for the sake of your souls, which are to mature through suffering. And if you lose someone who is dear to you, your pain will be alleviated if you remember Jesus' suffering and death on the cross. You too take the suffering on your shoulders, if you bear it for the lord .... And for the sake of humanity the lord endured suffering, but you bear it for those to whom your love is directed, if you bear it devotedly and for the lord's sake. Therefore do not complain and do not call the soul back to earth when it has left the earth valley, for the hour of freedom has struck it and all earthly heaviness has fallen away from it. And this shall be your consolation, that God's love is infinite, that this His love concludes life when the time has come that He calls it to Himself into His kingdom .... The path on earth was not easy, now the soul detaches itself from earth you should not be sad, for it exchanges earthly life for a peaceful life in eternity ....

Amen