Do not speak ill of the dead according to Maria Simma In every season of the year—especially around All Souls’ Day—the Church teaches us to see death not as a wall but as a threshold.The remembrance of our loved ones is not nostalgia; it is an act of faith in the communion of saints , which unites the living and the dead in Christ. Within this light, the teaching of Maria Simma —the Austrian mystic known for her deep charity toward the souls in Purgatory—confronts us with a m

There comes a moment that no one can avoid, the instant when the body ceases to breathe and the soul detaches itself from the earth. It is a passage that all humanity must face, the mysterious threshold between time and eternity. According to Mother Speranza of Jesus , in that moment something occurs that no human mind could ever truly comprehend. Christ does not appear as a judge seated on a throne of severity, but as a presence of ineffable tenderness. He does not condemn,