PS Ignatie: When we feel that the suffering of others is also ours, we prove that we are personstranslated

"When, quite simply, we feel that the suffering of others is our suffering, we prove that we are persons," said Sunday the Most Reverend Father Ignatius, Bishop of Husi, at the Episcopal Cathedral in Husi, Vaslui county.

His Eminence explained that excessive attachment to material possessions and indifference to the suffering of one's neighbor leads man away from his true vocation.

"The moment we put the material above the spiritual, we bind our hearts, we idolize them, we do nothing but dehumanize ourselves, become nameless people."

The bishop highlighted that wealth and poverty are not, in themselves, criteria for the acquisition of eternal life: "The mercilessly rich man went to hell because he lived in gross indifference towards the one who was suffering, that is, he did not show his love in any way."

The importance of compassion towards one's neighbor The Most Reverend Father Ignatius showed that selfishness and lack of compassion affect relationships between people and can turn life into an experience of loneliness and suffering.

The hierarch also mentioned the reflection of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, according to which "hell is the inability to love",...