97 cially combined with offering the sacraments; the context of the terminal illness (the sense of hospices), of numerous accidents and random dangers... Combine the work of assisting the dead and the dying with the general work of mercy. Activate the confraternities/societies and their service in the framework of supporting the dead. Combine the apostolate of prayer for the dead with the work of evangelization, where there is room for proclaiming the salvifi c paschal mystery and the eschatological truths (death, judgment, heaven or hell, the possibility of purgatory). To regard the goal and meaning of assisting the deceased in the following contexts: paschal (“the life of Your faithful, O Lord, is changing but not ending” it’s being immersed in the Passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ); soteriological (“for us and for our salvation He came down from heaven”); ecclesial (in the spirit of communio sanctorum); charitable, as a work of mercy, a sign of generous and noble love (insignior misericordia and summa caritas). 12. 13. 14. 15. • • • •
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