” “The final perspective that Benedict XVI outlines at the end of his second Encyclical is to confidently look to afterlife. "The souls of the dead he writes can be given «comfort and relief» through the Eucharist, prayer and alms". According to the Pope, "that love can reach out to afterlife (…) has been an essential belief of Christianity through the centuries". After all, he adds that "nobody sins on their own. Nobody is saved on their own". "So my intercession for my neighbour is by no means something that is alien to him or an external thing, not even after death". Finally, Benedict XVI points at Mary, Christ’s Mother, who, in graciously receiving the announcement, becomes the "mother of hope". "Who, more than Mary, might be for us the star of hope she who, with her ‘yes’, opened to God Himself the door to our world?".” “
