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Saint Gregory says: What does the soul say to the body when they are separated from one another, and it becomes a distant observer? For the soul is vocal and possesses understanding. He says: The soul and the body weep for one another, and they cannot cease from weeping. For the soul says to the body: "Woe unto me, that I filled myself with evil sins all the days of my life and darkened my soul and you." The body says to the soul: "Woe unto me as well, for I have withered because of my sins, which I committed and did not repent. I remain in the earth, sleeping and rotting, and I become food for worms and crawling things. I cannot do anything; I am corrupted and destroyed." The soul says: "Woe unto me as well, for I bound myself with many sins, and I did not feel it, and I did not know this day, so that I might have repented with sackcloth and ashes. Now where shall I go? For I do not know where they are taking me, for the seeker is fearful. Then there is the escape from the fear of the Judge. What shall I become?"
And the soul and the body are in doubt; they weep and lament for one another, and they are not comforted by anyone. The body says to the soul: "Go you to the heavenly Creator on high, for if there is someone of our kin, a saint or a merciful person, or one who loves prayer, or our true father, who might remember us with prayers or with mercy in the church or in the patarag Eucharistic liturgy, it might be that..."