97 thanks to our help”3. If we believe in the communion of saints (cf. Constitution and Directory [...], Rome 2018, C 8, 85) and the Church purifying herself, and the request is addressed to the confreres from my Marian family, this request will also bring them closer to their sanctification. Because we know that when the souls of the dead pray for us and implore graces for us, sufferers, they also are granted the grace of reduced punishment for unrepented sins during their earthly life As a result, the paradox is that although the living confrere who suffers needs help and the deceased also need help, in the logic of God’s love, they both receive help. What’s more, these acts can tighten the bonds of the sick person with the religious community, especially if they have weakened in the course of the difficulties of life in the Congregation. Conclusion When seeking intercessors, the most valuable prayer is the one addressed to Mary Immaculate to whom a sick confrere has entrusted his life in a special veneration of Her privilege of the Immaculate Conception. This mystery was a caring, pure and safe place for Jesus and it is also such a place for everybody who is implanted in Jesus’s life through baptism and more so through religious consecration. She, as a caring Mother, reaches out to everybody in need, and especially to Her spiritual sons who sometimes maybe forget to be continuously grateful for this gift. Questions: 1. What attitude should I adopt in my sickness? 2. How would I like to help a suffering confrere from my Congregation? 3. What example could I give of a confrere who gave his time for a confrere in pain? 3 St. Stanislaus Papczyński, The Mystical Temple of God, in: Selected Writings of Saint Stanislaus Papczyński, PROMIC, Warsaw, Poland, Marian Heritage, Stockbridge, MA, USA, 2022, p. 655
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