THE INDIVIDUAL
“The person feels condemned to receive help and assistance from others, and at the same time seems useless to himself. he discovery of the salvific meaning of suffering in union with hrist transforms this depressing feeling. aith in sharing in the suffering of hrist brings with it the interior certainty that the suffering person completes what is lac ing in hrist s a ictions the certainty that in the spiritual dimension of the wor of edemption he is serving, li e hrist, the salvation of his brothers and sisters” “ he soul survives and subsists separated from the body, while the body is sub ected to gradual decomposition according to the words of the ord od ... ou are dust and to dust you shall return ” 2
2. Pope John Paul II. Apostolic Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II n the hristian eaning of uman Suffering Salvifici Doloris. Boston, MA: St. Paul Editions, 1984. Poloniae, Victoria. Pope John Paul II. Oil Painting. The Architecture of Release: Hospice Architecture
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