Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/0870

0870 Prayer for the deceased.... help through love....

April 18, 1939: Book 17

Blessed are those who feel in themselves the strength that comes from love.... Whoever works in love, his strength increases and never lets him become disparaging, his spirit rises and never demands to return to its envelope. And now turn your gaze upwards and think of those who did not find the salvation of the soul in earthly existence. The more intimately your prayer ascends, the lighter their burden becomes, for they are in constant need of the help which is imparted to them through prayer. The sufferings of their imperfect state are immeasurable, and yet they must go the path through all heaviness if the purification process is to succeed and enable them to pass into the kingdom of light. Those poor incessantly appeal to people for help and find so little hearing, and yet it is of extensive importance to them whether their call for help is heard or not. Every day countless souls send the call for help to earth, for they are in constant need. And these souls cannot be sufficiently remembered in prayer if they are to be released from their torment. To give people a picture of their sad fate would burden them immeasurably and let their distant path of life on earth walk under appalling pressure, yet you should nevertheless know that you can contribute an unspeakable amount to alleviating the fate of these poor, that you should only appeal to the father in heaven for help for these souls with love of heart in order to thereby reduce their suffering and impart strength to them, which has the effect that the will of those poor turns towards the light and can now also be complied with on the part of good spiritual beings, which, however, first need this will in order to be able to intervene helpfully on their part. If the human being errs on earth and recognizes his error in the beyond, then his situation will not be so appalling, for he will now strive with full will to improve his lot and also find active support; however, the ignorant and spiritually completely blind souls, who crossed over without any realization, endure unspeakable torments for the sake of their obduracy.... Help is also ready for them if only they are willing to accept it, yet in complete ignorance nothing can help them but people's heartfelt prayer, which also gives strength to those souls by making them feel the love and its strength in themselves and through this benefit become pliable and compliant and now in turn pursue the cause of this relief and thus slowly come close to the light.... Bringing help to such souls is a work of love which is pleasing to the lord....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers