Bishop Ignatius on solidarity with the grieving: Taking on the suffering of others is the greatest consolationtranslated

"This assumption of the suffering of the other is the greatest consolation and it does more than thousands of words that we would like to address to someone," Bishop Ignatius of the Hussites emphasized on Sunday in the "Holy Emperors Constantine and Helena" Parish in Bristol, Great Britain.

Starting from the evangelical story of the resurrection of the widow's son from Nain, His Eminence explained how pain manifests itself in human life: "No matter how much we are surrounded by people who love us, we still remain alone."

"We realize that no one can understand what passes like a sword through our heart," said the hierarch.

At the same time, the Bishop of Husi pointed out that "true compassion and solidarity in suffering towards someone requires that we also assume that suffering".

"Only when we love someone with our whole being do we feel that person's suffering as our own suffering - we feel it in the depths of our being. Depending on how great the love is for the person we love, so intense is the suffering we can take on."

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