tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18056524619168018572024-03-14T12:35:10.308+08:00My Devotion to the Holy Souls in PurgatoryI received many and very great favours from the Saints but still greater favours from the Holy Souls ~ St. Catherine of Bologna Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-57494057127283619242014-07-14T14:02:00.002+08:002014-07-14T14:02:33.193+08:00CROWN OF SUFFRAGES FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for that copious sweat of blood</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You shed in the Garden of Gethsemane,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have mercy on my relatives</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who are suffering in Purgatory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for the humiliations and cruel treatment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You suffered at the tribunal of Pontious Pilate,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have mercy on the souls of our beloved dead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who are hoping to be glorified in Your kingdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for the crown of thorns that pierced Your head,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have pity on the most abandoned souls,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">those deprived of suffrages,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and those who are still far </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from being freed from the pains of Purgatory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for the painful steps You made</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as you carried the heavy cross,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have mercy on the souls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who are about to leave Purgatory;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and for the sufferings You endured</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as You saw Your Mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the way to Calvary,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">free the souls in Purgatory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who were devoted to this dear Mother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for Your most holy body laid on the cross</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for Your feet and hands pierced by nails,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for Your cruel death and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for Your side pierced by the lance,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have mercy on the poor souls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and admit them into Your heavenly kingdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-35220184536652874692014-07-14T13:51:00.000+08:002014-07-14T13:51:18.326+08:00PRAYER FOR THE LIBERATION OF SOULS IN PURGATORY by Saint Mathilde<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Our Father in heaven.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Humbly I pray to you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal and Merciful Father,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forgive the poor souls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whom you yourself take as your creatures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if they have not loved you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nor rendered you due honor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To you I offer reparation and penance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in union with the love and goodness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of your Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Holy be your name.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Humbly I pray to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal and Merciful Father,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forgive the poor souls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who have not glorified Your Name and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who frequently pronounced it in vain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As reparation and penance I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all the teachings with which your Beloved Son,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Lord Jesus Christ, has glorified</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your Name on earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Your kingdom come.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pray to you humbly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal and Merciful Father,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forgive the souls </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who have not desired</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with ardent love Your holy kingdom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For those sins I offer in sacrifice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the powerful desire of your Beloved Son,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Lord Jesus Christ,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with which he wishes that everyone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">be admitted in your eternal kingdom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I humbly pray to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal and Merciful Father,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forgive the souls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who did not submit to your will,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but followed their own will.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In reparation and penance I offer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Divine Heart of Jesus and His great submission.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Give us this day our daily bread</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>and forgive us our sins</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>as we forgive those who sin against us.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I humbly pray to you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal and Merciful Father,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forgive the souls their sins,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because they did not love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nor forgive their enemies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In reparation and penance,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I offer you in sacrifice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the holy words of your Beloved Son,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Lord Jesus Christ,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with which he said while on the Cross:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Father, forgive them,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for they do not know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what they are doing.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And lead us not into temptation.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Humbly I pray to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal and Merciful Father,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forgive the souls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who did not oppose temptations,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thereby yielding to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the seductions of the Evil One.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this they fell into ruin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In reparation and penance I offer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the obedience, the exhausting works,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and all the bitter sufferings,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and death of your Beloved Son,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Lord Jesus Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And deliver us from evil. Amen.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Humbly I pray to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal and Merciful Father,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forgive the poor souls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and take them to Jesus Christ</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the kingdom of Glory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where you live forever. Amen.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-78298043842521759432014-07-14T08:45:00.001+08:002014-07-14T08:45:14.915+08:00PRAYER FOR THE MOST NEGLECTED SOULS<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus, for the sake of the agony </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that you endured</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">during Your fear of death</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the Garden of Gethsemane,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the Scourging,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the Crowning with thorns,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the Way to Calvary,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at Your Crucifixion and death,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have mercy on the souls in Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">especially on those souls </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who are completely forgotten.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deliver them from their bitter pains,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">call them finally to Yourself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and embrace them in Your arms in Heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amen.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-50187056364578696362014-06-29T15:21:00.004+08:002014-06-29T15:21:58.503+08:00CHAPLET OF THE HOLY SOULS<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Chaplet can be prayed on a set of Rosary Beads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Begin with: The Apostle's Creed, then 1 Our Father, 3 Hail Mary's, 1 Glory Be for the Pope’s intentions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Large Beads Pray: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>O holy souls draw the fire of God’s Love into my soul to reveal Jesus crucified in me, here on earth, rather than hereafter in Purgatory.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Small Beads Pray:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Crucified Lord Jesus have mercy on the souls in Purgatory.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">End with: 3 Glory Be's</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-58391430921865702512014-06-29T15:17:00.004+08:002014-07-14T08:37:19.606+08:0012 YEAR DEVOTION FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY by St. Bridget<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The following prayers were given in a private revelation by Our Lord Jesus Christ to St. Bridget of Sweden. They are to be prayed for 12 years. Our Lord promised the following graces to all who will have this devotion:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. The soul who will pray these prayers will suffer no Purgatory. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The soul who will pray these prayers will be accepted among the Martyrs as though he had spilled his blood for the Christian faith.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. The soul who prays them can choose three other souls whom Jesus will then keep in a state of grace that is sufficient for them to become holy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. No one among the four successive generations of the soul who prays these prayers will be lost. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. The soul who prays these prayers will be made conscious of his death one month in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><i>When the person who has committed himself to pray these prayers dies before the 12 years are over, the Lord will accept the prayers as having been prayed in their entirety. If a few days of prayer are missed due to a valid reason, they can be made up for later.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This devotion was pronounced good, and was recommended by both the "Sacro Collegio de propaganda fide" as well as by Pope Clement XII. Pope Innocent X, in turn, confirmed the revelations of the Lord to St. Bridget.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Prayer Offerings in Honor of the Precious Blood of Jesus</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O Jesus, I will pray the Lord's Prayer seven times in union with all the love with which you sanctified this prayer in your heart. Take the prayers from my lips into your Divine Heart. Improve and complete my prayers so that they bring much honor and joy to the Blessed Trinity as you glorified the Trinity. May these prayers bring glory to You because of Your painful Wounds, and the Precious Blood that You poured forth for us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. <b>The Circumcision of Jesus </b> - Our Father... Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and through the Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer You the first wounds, the first pains and the first Bloodshed as atonement for all the sins of youth committed by me and by all humanity, and as protection of my relatives from mortal sins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. <b>The Agony in the Garden</b> - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father... Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and through the Divine Heart of Jesus,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I offer You the terrifying suffering of Jesus' Heart on the Mount of Olives and every drop of His Blood that he sweated as atonement for the sins of the heart committed </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by me and by all humanity,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as protection against committing again such sins, and for the spread of the Divine and brotherly love among all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. <b>The Flagellation of Jesus</b> - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father... Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and through the Divine Heart of Jesus,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I offer You the numerous wounds and the gruesome pains that Jesus suffered, as well as Precious Blood that He shed during the flagellation as atonement for the sins of the flesh </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">committed </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by me and by all humanity,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as protection against committing again such sins, and for the preservation of the virtue of innocence among my relatives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. <b>The Crowning of Thorns</b> - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father... Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and through the Divine Heart of Jesus,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I offer You the wounds and pains that Jesus suffered, as well as the Precious Blood that flowed from the Holy Head of Jesus during the crowning with thorns, as atonement for the sins of the spirit </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">committed </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by me and by all humanity, as </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">protection against committing again such sins, and for the spread of Christ's kingdom on earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. <b>The Carrying of the Cross</b> - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father... Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and through the Divine Heart of Jesus,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I offer You the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> sufferings of Jesus on the Way of The Cross --- especially the Holy Wounds he suffered on His shoulders, and the Precious Blood that came from these wounds --- as atonement for rebellions against the Cross, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as atonement for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">every grumbling against Your Holy Will, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as atonement for</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> sins of the tongue </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">committed </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by me and by all humanity, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">protection against committing again such sins, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and for the spread of true love of the Cross.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. <b>The Crucifixion of Jesus</b> - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father... Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and through the Divine Heart of Jesus,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I offer You Your Son nailed and hanging on the Cross, His wounds on His hands and feet, and the three streams of His Precious Blood that poured forth from these wounds for us, His extreme tortures of the body and soul, His precious death and its unbloody remembrance in all the Holy Masses, as atonement for all the offenses committed against the vows and rules of Religious Life and the Priesthood; as reparation for my personal sins and the sins of the world; as supplication for the sick and the dying, for the priests and the laity, for the Holy Father's intentions towards the restoration of Christian families, for the strengthening of the Faith, for our country, and for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unity among all nations in Christ and in His Church and for all the people of the Diaspora.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. <b>The Piercing of the Side of Jesus</b> - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Father... Hail Mary...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, accept as our worthy offering the Precious Blood and Water that flowed from the wounds of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Divine Heart of Jesus, for the needs of the Holy Church, and for the atonement of all the sins of humankind. Be gracious and merciful toward us. May the Blood of Christ,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the last precious content of His Holy Heart, wash me and others of all the guilt of our sins. May the Water from the side of Christ wash me clean of all the punishments of my sins, and may it extinguish the flames of Purgatory for me and for all the Poor Holy Souls. Amen.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-33110773831146295022014-06-24T05:27:00.003+08:002014-06-24T05:28:20.436+08:00100 REQUIEM PRAYER<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Ana Maria Taigi was very devoted to the souls in Purgatory. She was generous in giving suffrages to the souls by praying the 100 Requiem. She testifies that through this prayer she obtains many heavenly favors in different circumstances and for various needs.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the benefit of the souls in Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The merits of your sufferings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Endured for our redemption.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I start by contemplating the Blood</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That oozed out from your Body</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Due to the sadness and anguish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That you experienced</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the Garden of Gethsemane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen. (10 times)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray to God for me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will ask the Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you the glory of Paradise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The admirable patience with which</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You endure the tortures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of those vile soldiers who led you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, and Herod,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you more insult</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They dressed you up in purple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amid the mockeries and insults of the people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen. (10 times)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray to God for me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will ask the Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you the glory of Paradise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bitterness you felt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When they chose Barabbas,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who was a criminal,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead of you, the innocent one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Later on, tied to a pillar,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You were scourged without mercy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen. (10 times)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray to God for me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will ask the Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you the glory of Paradise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The humiliation you suffered when,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Treating you as a false king,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They put on your shoulders</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A purple cloak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gave you a stick for your sceptre,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And crowned your head with thorns,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And in this way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pilate presented you to the mob saying:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look at this man!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen. (10 times)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray to God for me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will ask the Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you the glory of Paradise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The intense sorrow you felt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the mob shouted: “Crucify him!”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when the heavy burden of the cross</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made you stumble several times</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you carried it to Mt. Calvary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen. (10 times)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray to God for me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will ask the Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you the glory of Paradise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The compassion and deep pain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You felt when you were</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Separated violently from</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your beloved Mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who came to meet and embrace you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On your way to Calvary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen. (10 times)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray to God for me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will ask the Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you the glory of Paradise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the souls of Purgatory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The untold torments you endured</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When your bloody body</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was extended on the cross</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And they nailed your hands and feet to it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And they they raised up the cross violently</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And planted it on a hole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen. (10 times)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray to God for me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will ask the Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you the glory of Paradise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the souls of Purgatory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The anguish and pains that,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For three hours, you endured</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While hanging on the cross,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made more painful by your knowing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That your sorrowful Mother was there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beneath your cross.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen. (10 times)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray to God for me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will ask the Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you the glory of Paradise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Jesus, I offer you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the souls of Purgatory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The desolation that your Mother endured</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When she saw you dead,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when your body</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was lowered down from the cross</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And she embraced and carried</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your lifeless body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May they rest in peace. Amen. (10 times)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy souls of Purgatory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray to God for me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will ask the Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To give you the glory of Paradise.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-50394835140375702052014-06-10T16:28:00.000+08:002014-06-10T17:00:53.062+08:00TESTIMONY OF FABIENNE GUERRERO: I Was in Hell - “My illumination of conscience”<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The peace of Jesus be with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beloved brothers and sisters, I come to witness today that Christ brought me </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">back to life. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My parents had me baptised a few days after my birth. I followed all the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">catechism classes and I made my First Communion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mother, a holy woman, taught me to pray every night. However, after </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">communion, I no longer attended the Catholic Church until 1996, on which </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">date Jesus came to save me. I was 32 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will tell you a bit about the life that I led all those years, far from Jesus. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As soon as I turned 15, my life took a reversal. I began to smoke, frequented</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">filthy bars, participated in card readings, practiced numerology, wrote to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">astrologers. When I finished my school studies, I spent all the week-ends in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">discotheques smoking hashish, drinking alcohol; I wore mini-skirts and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">designer clothes and, without guilty feelings, I frolicked with the men I met. I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was searching for Love with a capital L.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Satan was keeping me bound and prevented me from turning towards the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">love of Christ. He blinded me with what men could give me: pleasure of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">flesh, money, well-being and the world. I was under his hellish bindings, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">needed somebody to take much care of me yet I wanted to die without love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was suicidal and self-destructive after having sustained much wickedness in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my youth and Satan, in his cruelty, poisoned my painful wounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was during an evening in a nightclub that I met a man and, at the end of a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">few months, we decided to live common law. I did not know that if I had</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sexual relations while I was not married in the Church that my soul was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">uniting with impure spirits. At the end of 5 years, I left him and I moved to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another city in which I made the acquaintance of an astrologer and a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rosicrucian of AMORC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The astrologer proposed that I have my karmic astrological theme done and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">accepted! She explained to me that it consisted of studying my astrological</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">theme based on my previous lives and studying my karma!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometime later I went to a spirit centre to listen to the teachings of a guru</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whom I found in a book that I studied, named « The Gospel According to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spiritism » by Allan Kardec.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One day this guru proposed to those who wished to participate, on </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wednesday evening, in live seances of spiritism and due to my innocence, I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">accepted. And there, I began to see mediums who entered trances, who </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">received messages from so-called Curate of Ars, Saint Theresa of the Child </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus or still the Mother of God, even sometimes The Lord Jesus-Christ plus </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">extra terrestrials! Had I known that these were fallen spirits that delivered </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">these messages, I would have left this spirit centre right away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then, one Wednesday evening, the guru proposed to those who wished </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I suffered greatly in my interior, but at that moment, I did not know that it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">consisted of accumulated sins that were oppressing me. I thought that this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">interior suffering was due to the karma that I would have accumulated in my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so called previous lives since I believed in reincarnation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Believing that the guru had the power to free me of my previous lives, I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">accepted his proposal and sat next to him. He was serving the demon and,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by accepting to give myself to his power, I allowed the demon to take</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The evil spirits had penetrated me because of my errant ways: card reading,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pendulum, astrology, horoscope, palm reading, initiation to yoga, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">adoration of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buddha, esoteric meditation, opening to chakras, chi gong, etc....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The guru had laid his hand on two of my chakras with the powers he acquired</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from the demon. The chakra of the heart and the chakra of the third eye!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then he told me that he had transmitted light to me. But unfortunaltely, it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was the light of God's enemy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, I went home and began to feel ill. At the next spirit seance, I lived</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">through a very difficult experience. The kundalini arose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kundalini is a powerful energy lodged in the sacrum bone at the base of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the back. When it is aroused, it climbs along the spine and works its way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from (chakra) center to center right up to the coronary chakra located above</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During this experience, I had the impression that I was raptured to heaven</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">such was the power of this energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I had not understood at that moment was that by the practicing of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yoga </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and of the kundalini, I gave power to Satan to enter into me and lead me from </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the interior. I did not know that the practice of yoga could open the door of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my soul to evil spiritual entities. Yoga is not a simple practice. It belongs to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a true religion from which it is hard to separate oneself. It made me adore </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">divinities that had spiritual functions. I learned from a priest who is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">knowledgeable on these questions, that yoga is a Hindu practice that unites</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the temporal me « JIVA » to « BRAHMAN » the infinite, the Hindu conception</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This god is presented as an impersonal spiritual substance. It is not Jesus-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christ, the personal God of Revelation. By invoking strange deities that do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not exist, I risk in reality to enter into contact with demons and submit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">myself </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to them. I then realised that by practicing yoga, I was adoring a god other </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">than the Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and consequently, I was </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">breaking God's first commandment: «You shall not have gods other than</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me. »</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, feeling more and more sick, I decided to abandon these techniques and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">since I opened myself to the chakras, I was between life and death for many</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">long months and if I am alive today, I can say thank you to Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My thirst for knowledge not being quenched yet, I joined the Rosicrusians</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AMORC and I quickly began to receive small booklets for study.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this Order I studied different things such as the psychic body of man, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stellar travelling, human aura, chakras, vocal sounds, mantras...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Throughout these studies, I sought to know and understand the god of my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">heart that we called « The Cosmic One ». But I understood nothing of this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">false god and its energies. Imagine what kind of love relationship I had with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that god! None! No loving heart to heart as I can now live out with Jesus of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">love in the Eucharist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my research into New Age that does not come from God, I practiced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">magnetism, telepathy, pendulum, all kinds of magic, hypnosis, New Age</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">breathing, aura reading, all forms of healing through energies, crystals, music</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and colours , meditations on New Age music and reiki which the bishops of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the USA warned against. In my body I experienced that Satan had placed his</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">energy within me with his power and I began to tremble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the Rosicrucian Order, I met a man who was alone for many years </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">his wife had left him for another man. A few months later, we decided to get </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a civil marriage. We could not get married in the Catholic Church because he </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had previously received the sacrament of marriage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here comes a blast of grace! While looking at a poster of the Sacred</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heart of Jesus, I heard His voice that said to me: « My holy wounds will save</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you »! The wounds of His painful Passion. Soon after, during a pilgrimage to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Medjugorje, I accepted to be reinstated in the Catholic Church. Here I am, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so little, bearing my great misery before the Blessed Sacrament that was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">exposed, the real presence of the living Jesus, body, blood, soul and divinity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Upon my return to France, God gave me a first supernatural experience in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">midst of which He asked me to do penance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He showed me my soul enclosed inside the Beast that had the head of a Lion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as described in the Apocalypse. I saw the demons that surrounded me and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">were ready to take me with them to the place of darkness. These demons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">were linked to each other in my sins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I began to scan more deeply into my soul, I saw myself as a hyena </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">descended in the abyss, into the crater of fire, blaspheming and feeling hate </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">towards God like the damned. The state of my soul was the consequence of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my disobedient acts towards the Law of God and Satan told me in his fury: « I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">condemned you to the punishment of hell ». I did not know that Satan was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">burning in hell and wanted everybody to burn with him. His hatred had</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">penetrated me. I saw how Satan and his fallen angels with the damned were</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">attacking souls at the level of their heart and their brain so as to destroy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">them. The worst is that I heard my soul saying: Satan, I love you! It was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">truly horrible! I was a rotting demon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know, I was a worldly woman, seductress, courtesan and dominatrix. I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">would say that I was a liberated woman but in fact I was chained to Lucifer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My rebellion had begun while listening to rock music, the Beatles, ACDC and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the spirits of this evil music had entered in me... and I said everywhere:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« Peace and love ». I used these words with some of my hippie friends. My</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">interior rebellion led me to be in favour of homosexuality, divorce, living</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">common law, abortion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At that moment, I had not been made conscious that I was a great </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">persecutor </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the law of Christ, but you know that I was bound by the abyss and I could </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not react otherwise. It is Satan's light, which is nothing other than darkness, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that lived within me. If my mother had not prayed a lot and had not made </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sacrifices for my soul, at this time I would always be blinded by the light of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lucifer. Fasting and prayer helped me a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I heard the enemy of God speak to the Blessed Virgin whom he fears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">terribly. Speaking about souls he said: « I hold them all, I will have them all»</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I also heard that he holds many priests (because they do not do penance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and no longer pray). If the demon succeeds in damning a priest with a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">woman, he then rejoices because during that time, the priest no longer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">accomplishes his duty which is to save souls. Woe to these women who turn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">priests away from their vocation! They are already under God's justice and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the torments of hell await them if they do not repent! If you only knew how</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Blessed Virgin sheds tears because she sees the Beast engulf more and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more souls. So she sheds many tears of blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Satan condemns souls through love of the world, money, the flesh and New</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Age. If you only knew the hatred he has towards each one of us and towards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God and priests, it is terrible. God revealed to me: « Reverence my priests ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Priests are the apple of the eye of Jesus. Without priests, nobody could get </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">heaven as it is they only who give us the sacraments which open the Life of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christ within us and grant us His forgiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After these moments of intense horror, Jesus pulled me from the abyss by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">taking me to Him and I felt His power take me out of this state of darkness, in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which I was terrified of everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God, in His great goodness, consoled me and told me with great charity:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« You are Mine ». 'Think of Me only', 'Think of loving Me only', « I will heal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you ». « You bathe in My Blood » 'I created you with My Hands'. 'Give Me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">great love and sin no more'. 'No longer sell your soul to the devil' 'No longer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">betray Me' 'I am your only master'. 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life'. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'No longer remain far from Me'. 'Listen to My word, observe My </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">commandments, observe My sabbaths, it is to say the Day of The Lord'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for the commandments of God, I knew that there were ten but no more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">than that. So I took the Bible, I read about them and after getting to know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">them, I discovered that since the age of fifteen I had been living in the state</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of very grave sin and some of these were mortal sins. Then Jesus told me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« Defend My law ». And it is what I have been doing since 1996. In order to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">serve Him well, the Holy Spirit told me that He gave me the charism of Truth!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, I went back to the one to whom I was to be wed and explained to him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that we had to live in chastity until the civil wedding. A few months went by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and we got married at the town hall. Two days after the wedding, I left the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wedding chamber because Jesus came to remove me by telling me: « Obey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me ». « I ask for reparation; your sin offended Me ». « Submit to Me My</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daughter ». and He showed me the demons to whom I was bonded because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of my sin of adultery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imagine my despair! It was impossible for me to think that I could live </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">without a man. I needed to be protected... I had just married so as to begin </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a home and a family but God told me at that moment that it was forbidden </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">procreate </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because I did not receive the sacrament of marriage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following morning I looked for a priest confessor who received me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">charitably and I explained what God was asking of me. The priest confirmed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that we had to live as brother and sister and he added that I could receive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">communion only if I lived in chastity. Then he explained that divorce does not</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dissolve Church marriage and that my husband remained married before God</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to his lawful wife till death do them part, even if she had rebuilt her life (now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">living with another person). What God has bound, man cannot separate!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know very well that God will demand accounts from this woman. God told</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">me that He cries over unfaithful women. This woman who left her husband</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">will be told by God during her particular judgement: « Woman, what have </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">done with your husband? » Had she prayed to God, He would have had them </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reconcile, but her heart was hardened. You know that if a woman does not </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forgive her husband or leaves him, her soul is in the abyss. However, the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Church does allow for bodily separation, but not divorce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brothers and sisters, who are we to not forgive while God forgave his</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">executioners from the Cross? How do you expect to be reunited with your</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">enemies in heaven if, on earth, you do not love them? You know, God told</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">me: « If you want Me to forgive you, forgive others, as He taught us in the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">prayer 'Our Father' ». And I was truly liberated when I forgave everybody,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when I had masses celebrated for my persecutors, when I prayed for those</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who injured me...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After leaving the priest, back at home, I began to feel much distress because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had to speak to my husband who had become my brother in just a few </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hours and who accepted the situation with much difficulty, but he accepted it </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">anyway because the salvation of his soul was at stake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then explained to him that I was going to leave the Rosicrucian Order </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AMORC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Convinced that I was on a deep erroneous path, I began to tear up into small</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pieces all the books by Rosicrucian authors, all the books on numerology,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">palm reading, card reading, books on spiritism by Allan Kardec and Leon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Denis and the New Age books such as those by H. Blavatsky or A. Bailey or</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">still those about occult sciences. I got rid of them because as long as they</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">remained at my place, the demons lived there as well. Once the Blessed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Virgin was enthroned at home, calm returned to my household. I replaced all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my old books with books such as the Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Church, the Lives of Saints, the Revelations of Souls in Purgatory, the Saints</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the Catholic Church and I was very moved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I experienced great interior suffering because of my numerous sins. I began,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">moved by the Holy Spirit, to have masses celebrated for my soul in order to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">regain peace. During the celebration of these masses, the Holy Spirit would</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">again awaken my conscience to all the sins I committed since my childhood .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I decided to go and see a priest, the devil who was furious told me: «</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go to hell ». So I rushed to the church and the devil pursued me, saying: «</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You are forgiven, you are forgiven ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I knew very well that if I confessed directly to God without going through</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the priest, I could never enter heaven and I knew that if I did not enter the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">confessional, I would not be freed of my sins by the Church , the only one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that has this power. So I held firm. The demon left me and the priest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">received me with great charity but he was lightly surprised to see that I had</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in my hand sheets of paper on which I noted all my sins. I had written them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so as to not forget them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I began to recite my sins without looking the priest in the eyes because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was very ashamed at that moment. I did not yet know that Jesus was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">present in the priest so as to take me in His arms and wash me in His </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">precious Blood. So I buried my head in my papers and I read from my notes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I confessed all about which I have spoken to you (civil marriage, common</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">law, alcohol, drugs, tobacco, belief in reincarnation, New Age...) and I added,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">speaking softly: « I committed many sins of the flesh: I took the pill, I wore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mini-skirts and made men sin with their gazing, I had words and thoughts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that were impure and uncharitable, I did not go to mass on Sunday, I led a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">friend to have an abortion in a clinic, I committed many sins of gluttony, I did</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not pray, I did not share with the poor, I had many idols who were artists </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pop stars, I saw X-rated films, scary films, I read evil books, and I also added </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all the capital sins that I committed such as pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">gluttony, sloth. »</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The priest listened to me with patience and charity and since then, I have</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">been going to confession regularly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then went before the tabernacle for my penance and there Jesus told me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with all His Fatherly Love: « Your sin is erased ». What a grace!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, brothers and sisters, Jesus erased my sins. My troubles, He consumed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">them. My weakness, He sustained it as long as I remain very poor in my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">interior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the many receptions of the sacrament of reconciliation, I met many</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">priests who administered prayers of exorcism over my esoteric studies and I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">often received the sacrament of healing as I was in a critical state due to my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">opening to chakras and the action of Satan who had destroyed my interior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The various sacraments helped me to heal and I was so much attracted to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus that I would spend my afternoons close to the tabernacle in a church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During these times, I began to make the Stations of the Cross every day for</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the release of souls in purgatory. God asked me to continue this work of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mercy and He explained that purgatory is His Mercy and hell His Justice and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">understood that many souls were lost. So I told God: « But it is You Lord who </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">condemned these souls that are in hell? » and He answered: «The souls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">condemned themselves ». As the apostle James said in his epistles: « It is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our sin that tempts us, not God ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God does not condemn, He leaves the soul free to love Him or to love Satan!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God is Love!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I told myself that I would consecrate my life to praying for the salvation of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all the souls. Jesus encouraged me to do so. One day He told me at 15 hours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(3.00 p.m.). « Implore my mercy on the souls. Pray to Me through my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Passion ». And as I suffered, knowing that many of my friends were far from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Church, Jesus told me: « Never cease praying to Me for them » and I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">assure you that I will never cease praying because I love them and because I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">know the suffering of the souls in hell since I had lived that for a brief instant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For two years, I spent all my afternoons near Jesus in a church close to my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">home and at night I would return home to the gentleman with whom I was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">living: we lived together as brother and sister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then one day, while listening to a tape on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was deeply touched by his extreme poverty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With my first spiritual father, a Dominican priest, we decided that I would</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">leave home; that I would divorce since my marriage was not one before God,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so that I could proceed with the Catholic Church and so I entered the Clarist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Order of Sisters; I was cloistered. It was a time of grace. At the end of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fifteen months, I left the monastery and I answered God's call who asked me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to serve Him and to witness to His Mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With great charity, Jesus asked me to offer my life to Him and before such</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">great love I accepted as heaven was asking me to refuse nothing to God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For lodging, I returned to my parents' and I began to work with many editors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at recording conferences that I gave on the Holy Spirit, on the souls in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">purgatory, on the apparitions recognised by the Catholic Church, on the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dangers of New Age, on the Eucharist, on the lives of saints, on the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">message of Merciful Jesus to Saint Faustina.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You surely know the words of Merciful Jesus:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« Jesus, I trust in You. » (PD 327) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« By means of the Image I shall be granting many graces to souls; so let </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">every soul have access to it » (PD 570)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">promise victory over its enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory. » (PD 48)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« The two rays denote Blood and Water. The pale ray stands for the Water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which makes souls rigtheous. The red ray stands for the Blood which is the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">life of souls... These two rays issued forth from the very depth of My Mercy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross .» (PD 299)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Personally, I try to recite the Divine Mercy chaplet every day at 15 hours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(3.00 p.m.) because Jesus promised this: « Even if there was a siner most</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hardened, if he were to recite this chaplet only once, he would receive grace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from my Infinite Mercy. » (PD 687)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also said: « It pleases Me to grant everything they ask of Me by saying </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">chaplet (PD 1541) if what you ask for is compatible with My Will (PD 1731) ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During a conference on the Divine Mercy, I met a man </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who had never </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quickly, we got engaged at the church and remained chaste but two months</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before the wedding, we separated because it was not the person that I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">needed. God had told me beforehand, twice « I want you body and soul »,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but you know, I resisted Him a lot before surrendering to His Divine Will! He</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">also said to me: « Let Me decide your eternal salvation ». So I let the Divine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mercy direct my soul so as to save it, but because of my own free will, I was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">once again heading toward the eternal fires of hell. I therefore submitted to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God in agreement with my spiritual father. The Blessed Virgin invited me to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no longer leave a place for man in my heart and so I took a vow of chastity,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">heart to heart with Jesus of Love, before the Blessed Sacrament exposed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here it is that God gave me another mystical experience!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My soul found itself in a deserted place. I was on some kind of a platform and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there was a path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I advanced on that path and found myself before a sea of fire in which there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">were souls. I saw a hole with a crackling fire inside. There were a lot of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">flames. And then I found myself in a dark place dangling on a wall while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">great streams of light beamed down from heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The damned were angry and very threatening when I was looking at them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and they told me: « We hate you. » Their hate burned me and their disdain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wounded my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Upon his death, the guru who had opened the chakras descended into this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">place of darkness. His soul was lost for eternity, because he refused Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He freely wanted to remain in his pride and he did not regret his faults. So</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God abandoned him to himself. God flees proud souls. He told me that He</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">loves little souls, humble souls!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God showed me that the soul of the guru that was damned by God for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">having </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">much offended Him without repenting, was working in my soul to tempt me </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">every second. I hear him and Satan cry when they cannot get to make me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yield to the temptations that they continually send me for the loss of my soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He does everything to damn me. The Blessed Virgin told me that I had to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">resist the diabolical suggestions to which I have often yielded. It is thanks to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the sacrament of confession that I can still be in His mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have nothing against this damned soul for enticing me into temptations</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because I know very well that it is the duty of all the souls that are damned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They want to know nothing, neither about us nor about God! They would</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">change neither their sufferings nor their pain in order to go to heaven! Their</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mission is hatred, destruction, lack of love. It is a torment that will never</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">end. It is a devouring fire that devours their entrails. But they are damned</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by God because they did not want to love Him. They drag all the souls that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they can into this place where hatred, destruction are always present!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything is but bitterness and their mission is to destroy the souls. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know, if God had allowed a thorn in my flesh as for Saint Paul, it is so </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that I will fight and become a saint. His grace is sufficient to me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I noticed that there are certain souls on this earth in the state of darkness, I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had warned them to repent but they did not. And while alive, some mocked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what I told them. So, God in a strong tone, told me: « No longer bother with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">them » and I understood how they will confront the Justice of God at the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">moment of their judgement. And that is what went on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above me, there was purgatory, the flames were very high. The souls that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">were in this state of purification are united to the Divine Will. Their greatest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suffering is to not yet be able to see God face to face. They saw Him during</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their particular judgement, in a light that is not yet that of heaven and so</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they kept a nostalgia for God, but they do not want to appear before Him with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their stains. They are being purified and repair what they did not repair when</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on earth and many of them learn to love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I prayed for them and in turn, they prayed for the wretched person that I am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and together, as a communion of saints, we helped each other to obtain </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">light so as to move closer to God without fear and without blemish. And </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus said to me: « I want you to be closer to Me », then He added:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« Continue your work of mercy » (by praying for them). The souls in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">purgatory have become my beloved sisters, but I do not speak to them </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because God does not allow it. I simply pray for them to help me in my </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mission of evangelization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw many white steps that I quickly climbed and when I arrived at the top</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of this big white staircase, a man dressed in red opened the door to me and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then he withdrew. I immediately entered an ocean of peace where I strongly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">felt the presence of God the Father. He was the Source. It was a benevolent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Father, filled with love and peace. His presence flooded this ocean of peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God the Father is very gentle and very loving and He told me without my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">being able to see Him: « I am a Father full of love for My children ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Myself, who believed that God was only a whipping father, I finally became</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">conscious of His great holiness and even if God is Love, Mercy and Justice, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">greatest attribute remains that of Mercy and He told me: « God is above all a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Father ». So I call Him « Father Love », « Dear Father » and I threw myself </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in His arms of love. And then I followed the path of spiritual childhood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thinks only of healing us and binding our wounds. God is Love as the apostle </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saint John taught it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then saw Jesus in heaven surrounded with a golden light. It was very</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beautiful. My soul felt a great peace and a great desire to come close to Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would have liked to remain near the Son of God, I felt so good. Jesus asked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">me to cry with Him for the poor sinners. He told me with great compassion:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« Cry My daughter for the salvation of the souls ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this spiritual experience, I carried within me all the sins that I had not yet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">confessed, which made me suffer a lot. To mitigate this, I confess every</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">week so that I will not have to confront them at the particular judgement of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my soul at the hour of my death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God opened my interior and made me see that before I returned to Him, I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was refusing His Mercy, my heart was hardened and He told me: « I cannot </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">enter a heart that is hard and proud ». He made me see all the thoughts that </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">were not in His Love, all my participation in evil, all my evil feelings, my </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">criticisms and judgements about others and He told me: « Keep yourself from </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">judging somebody. Do not accuse them. » You know, I used to accuse </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">everybody. Then He told me: « Do not judge them ». I assure you that I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was an expert in the field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was the wounds of life that had made me bitter toward my brothers and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sisters and God made me see that I was not better than Judas! So He told</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">me: « You have to love », and it is only after sixteen years of continued</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suffering and persecutions that Jesus transformed my demoniac soul into an</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">apostle for His glory and He asked me to imitate Him and to do like Saint Paul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by travelling like him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was often afraid of persecutions. So God told me: « Keep away from fear! »</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is true that all my enemies were crushed at the feet of Christ. Every time I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">go to a different country, the Holy Spirit takes all my fears and all my </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">anguish, so much so that I feel nothing but peace, the Peace of Christ!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When God opened my interior, I saw and relived all the evil I had done to my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">neighbour and I have suffered much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I cried out to God and told Him: « Jesus, have mercy on me. Have mercy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the great sinner that I am », and He answered me: « You are My Joy »</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I told Him: « All the people that I caused to stumble in my life, from now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on, I will pray for them and have masses celebrated so that one day we will </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">be reunited in paradise ». And so there, like Zaccheus, salvation </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">entered my </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">soul!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then gave Jesus of love all my bad choices and their consequences and He</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Himself came to repair my own errors of the road of life with His graces and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His love. God is Love with a capital L. You know, human love is but a pale</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reflection of Divine Love, just like human tenderness is but a pale reflection of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Divine Tenderness. And I again called to Him by telling Him: «Heal me Jesus,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">heal me, Father of love ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to say that I was telling Jesus that He did not love me enough!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Immediately He answered: « You cannot imagine to what extent I love you. I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">call you to Holiness, I call you to love Me! Meditate on My Passion! » And</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there, I finally understood all His Love and while reading the writings of Saint</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bridget, I learned that He had endured 5480 beatings during His painful</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Passion! What love of the creator for His creature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the Blessed Virgin who greatly helped me to get closer to God. One of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the first times that she spoke to me, she told me: « My Son died because of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">your sins » and then she told me: « You do not love the Cross enough ». </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then she taught me to accept martyrdom, she taught me silence, surrender, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and formed me for my spiritual life. I thank her also because she freed me </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from all the demons that oppressed me while praying the rosary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made a covenant with the Blessed Virgin during a mass and that is why in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her honour I wear a ring on my finger and in addition to my consecration to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I freely donned the scapular of Our Lady of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mount Carmel, and through her grace the Blessed Virgin Mary protects me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from many dangers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I who, through esoterism, have known a cosmic god, and an energy god, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">can testify that it is in the Catholic Church that I met a God of tenderness, a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God whose heart melts with love for each one of us. I who believed that the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Church is an old institution with rigorous dogmas, I also believe that </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Church is Holy and is Love with a capital L and that without the priests, I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">could not enter heaven. So the Catholic Church has become like a benevolent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mother to me and I understood all the Love of Jesus who placed its</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">foundation on Peter, the first Pope, and when I looked at Pope Francis, I saw</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in him all the Love of Christ for his children. I saw in him the Love of a Father</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I began to love the Church very much and to pray for it and its </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">consecrated ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many times Jesus of Love made me learn the depth of His heart into which I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had been transported in order to rest in His exquisite tenderness and His</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unequaled sweetness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To thank Jesus for His goodness, I recite the rosary daily because </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">promised me that through the prayer of the rosary, He would save me and He</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">added: « I pray for your liberation » and I understood that God was in me to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fight against the power of the serpent. I also pray the chaplet of Saint </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Michael the Archangel to the 9 choirs of angels, and finish my day of prayers </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by reciting often this small fruitful prayer that is an act of love: « Jesus, Mary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love you, save souls ». God promised Sister Consolata Bretone that each</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">time we recite this prayer from the heart « JESUS, MARY, I LOVE YOU, SAVE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SOULS » a soul is saved for eternity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know, I told Jesus: « I give you my 'Yes' because I would so much like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for all the souls to know Your burning heart with love. I give You all my past</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">choices and their consequences so that You, The Love, can burn them in Your</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fire of tenderness and in the flames of Your Mercy ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have experienced the sweetnes of the Heart of Jesus by receiving</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">communion of the Body of Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I know the importance of Holy Mass, I participate in it every day and I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have great respect for the ministers of God to whom this greatest power has</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">been given with the sacrament of Ordination...! Their hands are purified by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Light of God even before transsubstantiation occurs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus, the Son of God, is really present in the Sacred Host, and it is only in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heaven that we will understand this miracle...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Eucharist is the fastest way to come to Jesus...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No one in Heaven is as close to Jesus as we are, when we receive Him within</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">us...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brothers and sisters, we have Heaven before us, all of Heaven is contained in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that small piece of Bread...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« ...Whoever nourishes oneself with the Body and Blood of Christ, is fed with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the fullness of the Supreme Being and becomes a reflection of Him. The</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beauty of such a soul ravishes the angels of Heaven who marvel at the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almighty Power of the Most High and of His Love for the souls... »</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... The soul that receives Jesus radiates in itself His Love and His Light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... The Eucharist is Supreme Magnificence, Grace of graces, Gift of the gifts of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heaven. We can also contemplate this explanatory word of the Curate of Ars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who tells us:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« The soul that receives communion regularly with the Body of Christ, upon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">its entry into Heaven, God the Father cannot refuse to greet it because He</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sees in it the Face of His Son ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« Let us profit of these graces that the Father grants us, they are our halo of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holiness... »</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus wishes to fill our hearts that thirst, for Happiness... Joy... Peace... He</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">takes pleasure in the souls enamoured with The Love... Jesus is in those</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">souls. They are His during that brief moment of adoration... In the Eucharist,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the souls belong to Jesus and will remain so...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« Jesus is the Whole One who offers Himself to the world. He gives Himself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fully so that we can receive Him fully... »</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By receiving Him in oneself, we receive the Sacred One, the Son of God who</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">died and resurrected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As says Saint Francis of Assisi: « Keep for yourself nothing of yourself, so that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you can receive in His entirety The One who gave Himself to you entirely »</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let us often desire to have Jesus; the Eucharist is a marvelous gift of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heaven, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus is the food for our soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We grow in perfection because Jesus is perfection itself. Christ wants us to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">become a living icon of Himself. That is what happens in a diligent soul; </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">never has a creature on earth been so close to God as in the Holy Eucharist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we receive the Holy Eucharist, something happens in our body and in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our soul, like a dazzlement of our entire being which little by little divinizes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our human nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During this space of time, we become perfect because God is in us and we</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are in Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After every Eucharist, let us pray that its effects will multiply and be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">prolonged in us eternally. Thus, God can more rapidly establish His</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">permanent home in our heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is, dear brothers and sisters, the testimony of a poor soul, very weak,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">very miserable, that God consecrated in order to serve Him, glorify Him and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">honour Him and to not serve and glorify myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I never learned theology, but the Spirit of God taught me and told me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">« Awaken your brothers ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I witness in and out of season for many years in many countries and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">islands where I am invited, with the help of my guardian angel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I have known what hell is and its tortures and since I have lived it in my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">soul, I wish the salvation of all the souls, without exception, for the good ones </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and evil ones for whom I have masses celebrated,and for whom I pray and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fast. God asked me to make many sacrifices for my brothers and sisters </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">love and to cry with Him for their salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I will appear before God for my particular judgement of my soul, I will</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have to answer for the conversion of the souls that I have encountered </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">during </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my evangelization throughout the world. These souls, by the thousands, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">been called by God, from country to country, to come and listen to my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">testimony and if you are there today, it is that we will be reunited in heaven</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear brothers and sisters, you will all, at the hour of your death, appear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before God for your judgement. That is why my testimony will help you to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">gain more light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God's Mercy can change all the hearts. You know, my heart was sick and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">healed it. I told Him: « Lord Jesus, my Saviour and my God, I want to live </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my purgatory on earth so that, at my death, You will take me into Your </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sacred Heart ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So let us have faith and tell Jesus: « Jesus, I trust in You ». If God healed the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have written five booklets about my conversion that have been approved </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Catholic Church (imprimatur and nihil obstat). You can read them on my</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-20121872649142256312014-06-07T23:38:00.002+08:002014-06-07T23:45:48.304+08:00JUNE: MONTH OF THE SACRED HEART<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">+ JUNE IS THE MONTH OF THE SACRED HEART + </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">CONSOLE OUR LORD'S HEART BY MAKING EUCHARISTIC HOLY HOURS...</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">RETURN LOVE FOR LOVE...</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">MAKE REPARATION FOR THE SINS OF MEN...</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">SPREAD DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART...</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">PROMISES OF OUR LORD FOR THOSE DEVOTED TO HIS SACRED HEART</span></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state in life.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">2. I will give peace in their families.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">3. I will console them in all their troubles.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">4. They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of death.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">5. I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">6. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">7. Tepid souls shall become fervent.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">8. Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">9. I will bless the homes in which the image of My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and honored.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">10. I will give to priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">11. Those who propagate this devotion shall have their name written in My Heart, and it shall never be effaced.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">12. The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under My displeasure, nor without receiving their Sacraments; My Heart shall be their assured refuge at the last hour.</span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">WEBSITES OF INTEREST:</span></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">1) Beautiful site on Sacred Heart devotion, the Eucharist, and selected prayers (Adore Christ for Peace) - </span><br /><a href="http://acfp2000.com/Sacred_Heart/Sacred%20Heart.html" style="color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">http://acfp2000.com/Sacred_Heart/Sacred%20Heart.html</a><br /><span style="background-color: white;">2) Sacred Heart prayers (Sacred Heart Devotion) - </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">www.sacredheartdevotion.com/shprayerpage.htm</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Devotionals:</span></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Sacred Heart badge, statue, chaplet, picture, scapular </span><br /><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Books:</span></span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">* <b>Come to Me in the Blessed Sacrament </b></span><b><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Treasury of meditations and readings for 10 Eucharistic Holy Hours. Recommended by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Includes Scripture, writings of the Saints, etc.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">* <b>Consoling the Heart of Jesus</b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Endorsed by EWTN hosts Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ, and Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR, this do-it-yourself retreat combines the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius with the teachings of Sts. Therese of Lisieux, Faustina Kowalska, and Louis de Montfort. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">* <b>Litany of the Sacred Heart</b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The Litany of the Sacred Heart is a deeply spiritual collection of thirty-three invocations with accompanying commentaries on the Sacred Heart and Person of Jesus. Compiled and edited by Mario Collantes, The Litany of the Sacred Heart offers readers a clearly delineated path to nurturing and expressing their love for Jesus, Who is the source of all salvation and hope. This full color, 96-page book with a reverently-illustrated flexible cover will bring readers closer to Our Lord in every way. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">* <b>Devotion to the Sacred Heart</b></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a powerful little booklet filled with many of the treasures to be found in the veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Besides containing an explanation of the symbolism found within the Image of the Sacred Heart, it also includes explanations of the 9 First Fridays devotion, known as The Great Promise, the miraculous cure of St. Gemma Galgani as well as many profound exhortations to offer reparation to the Sacred Heart. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Authoritative and moving, Our Lord instituted this devotion Himself, saying: " I set neither limit nore measure to My gifts of grace for those who seek them in My heart."</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">In our age of religious indifference, when fervor and charity have grown cold, Jesus exhibits to the world His Sacred Heart as the symbol of God's infinite love showing His Divine Heart as a furnace whose burning rays of love are able to reanimate faith and rekindle love in hearts grown cold and ungrateful.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">ALL AVAILABLE FROM:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Mule's Religious </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">(504) 889-1708 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;">+ + + + + + </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">THE BLESSING OF THE SACRED HEART</span></b></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">May the grace and blessing of the Sacred Heart be with you, the peace of the Sacred Heart encompass you! May the merits of the Sacred Heart plead for you, the love of the Sacred Heart inflame you! May the sorrows of the Sacred Heart console you, the zeal of the Sacred Heart animate you, the virtues of the Sacred Heart shine forth in your every word and work! And may the joys of the Beatific Vision be your eternal recompense!</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS</span></b></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">I, __________, give myself and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ my person and my life, my actions, pains, and sufferings, so that I may be unwilling to make use of any part of my being save to honor, love,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">and glorify the Sacred Heart. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">This is my unchanging purpose, namely, to be all His, and to do all things for the love of Him, at the same time renouncing with all my heart whatever is displeasing to Him. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">I therefore take Thee, O Sacred Heart, to be the only object of my love, the guardian of my life, my assurance of salvation, the remedy of my weakness and inconstancy, the atonement for all the faults of my life and my sure refuge at the hour of death. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Be then, O Heart of goodness, my justification before God Thy Father, and turn away from me the strokes of His righteous anger. O Heart of love, I put all my confidence in Thee, for I fear everything from my own wickedness and frailty; but I hope for all things from Thy goodness and bounty. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Do Thou consume in me all that can displease Thee or resist Thy holy will. Let Thy pure love imprint Thee so deeply upon my heart that I shall nevermore be able to forget Thee or to be</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">separated from Thee. May I obtain from all Thy loving kindness the grace of having my name written in Thee, for in Thee I desire to place all my happiness and all my glory, living and dying in true bondage to Thee. </span><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: white;">CONSECRATION OF THE HUMAN RACE TO THE </span><span style="background-color: white;">SACRED HEART OF JESUS</span></span></b><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Your altar. We are Yours, and Yours we wish to be; but, to be more surely united with You, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today to Your Most Sacred Heart. Many indeed have never known You; many too, despising Your precepts, have rejected You. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Your Sacred Heart.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">You are King, O Lord, not only of the</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">faithful who have never forsaken You, but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned You; grant that they may quickly return to their Father's house lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">You are King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof; call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so that soon there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">You are King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism; refuse not to draw them all into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Your eyes of mercy toward the children of that race, once Your chosen people. Of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may it now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Grant, O Lord, to Your Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Praise to the Divine Heart that wrought our salvation; to It be glory and Honor forever. Amen.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">PRAYER TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS</span></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> O most holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore Thee, I love Thee and with a lively sorrow for my sins, I offer Thee this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to Thy will. Grant, good Jesus, that I may live in Thee and for Thee. Protect me in the midst of danger; comfort me in my afflictions; give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs, Thy blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death. Within Thy Heart I place my every care. In every need let me come to Thee with humble trust saying, Heart of Jesus</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">help me.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">INDULGENCED EJACULATIONS</span></b></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Merciful Jesus, I consecrate myself today and always to Thy Most Sacred Heart.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I implore, that I may ever love Thee more and more.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Thy love for me.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy Kingdom Come.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, convert sinners, save the dying, deliver the Holy Souls in Purgatory.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">LITANY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS</span></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Lord, have mercy.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Lord, have mercy.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Christ, have mercy.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Christ, have mercy.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Lord, have mercy</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Lord, have mercy.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Christ, hear us. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Christ, graciously hear us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">God the Father of Heaven, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">God the Son, Redeemer of the world, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">God, the Holy Spirit, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Holy Trinity, One God, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit </span><span style="background-color: white;">in the womb of the Virgin Mother, </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, substantially united to the Word of God, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, of Infinite Majesty, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, Sacred Temple of God, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, Tabernacle of </span><span style="background-color: white;">the Most High, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, House of God and Gate of Heaven, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, burning furnace of charity, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, abode of justice and love, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, abyss of all virtues, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, most worthy of all praise, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, in whom are all treasures of wisdom and knowledge, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, in whom dwells the fullness of divinity, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father was well pleased, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, of whose fullness we have all received, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, desire of the everlasting hills, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy </span><span style="background-color: white;">on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, patient and most merciful, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, enriching all who invoke Thee, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, fountain of life and holiness, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, propitiation for our sins, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, loaded down with opprobrium, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, bruised for our offenses, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, obedient to death, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance,</span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, our peace and our reconciliation, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, victim for our sins, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who trust in Thee, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of </span><span style="background-color: white;">Jesus, hope of those who die in Thee, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Heart of Jesus, delight of all the Saints, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, </span><span style="background-color: white;">spare us, O Lord.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, </span><span style="background-color: white;">graciously hear us, O Lord.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, </span><span style="background-color: white;">have mercy on us, O Lord.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">V. Jesus, meek and humble of heart.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">R. Make our hearts like unto Thine.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Let us pray: Almighty and eternal God, look upon the Heart of Thy most beloved Son and upon the praises and satisfaction which He offers Thee in the name of sinners; and to those who implore Thy mercy, in Thy great goodness, grant forgiveness in the name of the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who livest and reignest with Thee forever and ever. Amen</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">______________________________________________</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">"It is related in the life of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, a nun of the Order of the Visitation, that our Saviour revealed to this his servant his wish that in our times the devotion and feast of His Sacred Heart should be established and propagated in the Church, in order that devout souls should by their adoration and prayer make reparation for the injuries his heart constantly receives from ungrateful men when he is exposed in the Sacrament upon the Altar . . . .</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> "While this devout virgin was one day praying before the Most Holy Sacrament, Jesus Christ showed her his heart surrounded by thorns, with a cross on the top and in a throne of flames; and then He said thus to her: 'Behold the heart that has so much loved men, and has spared nothing for love of them, even to consuming itself to give them pledges of its love, but which receives from the majority of men no other</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">recompense but ingratitude, and insults towards the Sacrament of love; and what grieves Me most is, that these hearts are consecrated to Me.' </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> "And then He desired her to use her utmost endeavors in order that a particular feast should be celebrated in honor of His divine heart on the first Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>And this for three reasons:</b> </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">1. In order that the faithful should return thanks to Him for the great gift which He has left them in the adorable Eucharist;</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">2. In order that loving souls should make amends by their prayers and pious affections for the irreverences and insults which He has received and still receives from sinners in this Most Holy Sacrament; </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">3. In order that they might make up also for the honor which He does not receive in so many churches where He is so little adored and reverenced. And He promised that He would make the riches of His Sacred Heart abound towards those who should render Him this honor, both on the day of this feast, and on every other day when they should visit Him in the Most Holy Sacrament."</span><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://catholiclist.com/">Catholiclist.Com</a></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-36781014121034321032014-05-16T21:04:00.000+08:002014-05-16T21:05:43.688+08:00PRAYER FOR CONVERSION<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus gave this powerful prayer to St. Faustina when He said, "I desire that you know more profoundly the love that burns in My Heart for souls, and you will understand this when you meditate upon My Passion...When you say this prayer, with a contrite heart and with faith on behalf of some sinner, I will give him the grace of conversion. This is the prayer:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus also asked her to "Make a novena for the Holy Father's intention. It should consist of thirty-three acts; that is, repetition that many times of the short prayer - which I taught you - to The Divine Mercy." (Diary 341)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What a great blessing to have access to this powerful Prayer of Conversion Jesus taught St Faustina Himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Begin with the Sign of the Cross, 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary and The Apostles Creed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Then on the Our Father Beads say the following:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. On the 10 Hail Mary Beads say the following:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Repeat step 2 and 3 for all five decades).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Conclude with (three times):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1933, God gave Sister Faustina a striking vision of His Mercy, Sister tells us: "I saw a great light, with God the Father in the midst of it. Between this light and the earth I saw Jesus nailed to the Cross and in such a way that God, wanting to look upon the earth, had to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">look through Our Lord's wounds and I understood that God blessed the earth for the sake of Jesus."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of another vision on Sept. 13, 1935, she writes: "I saw an Angel, the executor of God's wrath... about to strike the earth...I began to beg God earnestly for the world with words </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which I heard interiorly. As I prayed in this way, I saw the Angel's helplessness, and he could not carry out the just punishment...."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following day an inner voice taught her to say this prayer on ordinary rosary beads: "First say one 'Our Father', 'Hail Mary', and 'I believe'. Then on </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the smaller beads you are to say the following words: 'For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In conclusion you are to say these words three times: 'Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus said later to Sister Faustina: "Say unceasingly this chaplet that I have taught you. Anyone who says it will receive great Mercy at the hour of death. Priests will recommend it to sinners as the last hope. Even the most hardened sinner, if he recites this Chaplet even once, will receive grace from My Infinite Mercy. I want the whole world to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">know My Infinite Mercy. I want to give unimaginable graces to those who trust in My Mercy...."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"....When they say this Chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying person not as the just judge but as the Merciful Savior".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.ewtn.com.au/devotionals/mercy/dmmap.htm">EWTN</a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Divine Mercy novena began as a private devotion which Our Lord revealed to Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska. The words of the prayers were dictated by Christ Himself to Saint Faustina, and Saint Faustina recorded in her diary Our Lord’s instructions for each day’s prayer.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christ asked Saint Faustina to recite the novena starting on Good Friday and ending on Divine Mercy Sunday, the Octave of Easter (the Sunday after Easter Sunday). The novena can be recited at any time of the year, however, and it is often accompanied by the Divine Mercy Chaplet, which Our Lord also revealed to Saint Faustina.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First Day: For the first day of the Divine Mercy novena, Christ asked Saint Faustina to pray for the sake of all mankind, especially sinners. She recorded the following words of Our Lord in her diary: “Today bring to Me all mankind, especially all sinners, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges Me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us, do not look upon our sins but upon our trust which we place in Your infinite goodness. Receive us all into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart, and never let us escape from It. We beg this of You by Your love which unites You to the Father and the Holy Spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon all mankind and especially upon poor sinners, all enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion show us Your mercy, that we may praise the omnipotence of Your mercy for ever and ever. Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://devotiontoholysouls.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.html">Recite The Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Second Day: For the second day, Christ asked Saint Faustina to pray for the sake of priests, monks, and nuns. She recorded the following words of Our Lord in her diary: “Today bring to Me the Souls of Priests and Religious, and immerse them in My unfathomable mercy. It was they who gave me strength to endure My bitter Passion. Through them as through channels My mercy flows out upon mankind.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most Merciful Jesus, from whom comes all that is good, increase Your grace in men and women consecrated to Your service, that they may perform worthy works of mercy; and that all who see them may glorify the Father of Mercy who is in heaven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the company of chosen ones in Your vineyard—upon the souls of priests and religious; and endow them with the strength of Your blessing. For the love of the Heart of Your Son in which they are enfolded, impart to them Your power and light, that they may be able to guide others in the way of salvation and with one voice sing praise to Your boundless mercy for ages without end. Amen.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://devotiontoholysouls.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.html">Recite The Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Third Day: For the third day, Christ asked Saint Faustina to pray for the sake of all the faithful. She recorded the following words of Our Lord in her diary: “Today bring to Me all Devout and Faithful Souls, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. These souls brought me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were a drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy, You impart Your graces in great abundance to each and all. Receive us into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart and never let us escape from It. We beg this grace of You by that most wondrous love for the heavenly Father with which Your Heart burns so fiercely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon faithful souls, as upon the inheritance of Your Son. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, grant them Your blessing and surround them with Your constant protection. Thus may they never fail in love or lose the treasure of the holy faith, but rather, with all the hosts of Angels and Saints, may they glorify Your boundless mercy for endless ages. Amen.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://devotiontoholysouls.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.html">Recite The Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fourth Day: For the fourth day, Christ asked Saint Faustina to pray for the sake of all those who do not believe in God and those who do not know Christ. She recorded the following words of Our Lord in her diary: “Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not know Me, I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://devotiontoholysouls.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.html">Recite The Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fifth Day: For the fifth day, Christ asked Saint Faustina to pray for the sake of all those who, while Christians, have separated themselves from the Roman Catholic Church. She recorded the following words of Our Lord in her diary: “Today bring to Me the Souls of those who have separated themselves from My Church, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Church. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Son’s Church, who have squandered Your blessings and misused Your graces by obstinately persisting in their errors. Do not look upon their errors, but upon the love of Your own Son and upon His bitter Passion, which He underwent for their sake, since they, too, are enclosed in His Most Compassionate Heart. Bring it about that they also may glorify Your great mercy for endless ages. Amen.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://devotiontoholysouls.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.html">Recite The Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sixth Day: For the sixth day, Christ asked Saint Faustina to pray for the sake of all little children and the meek and humble. She recorded the following words of Our Lord in her diary: “Today bring to Me the Meek and Humble Souls and the Souls of Little Children, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who will keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most Merciful Jesus, You yourself have said, “Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart.” Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father’s favorites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God Himself takes delight in their fragrance. These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart, O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon meek souls, upon humble souls, and upon little children who are enfolded in the abode which is the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls bear the closest resemblance to Your Son. Their fragrance rises from the earth and reaches Your very throne. Father of mercy and of all goodness, I beg You by the love You bear these souls and by the delight You take in them: Bless the whole world, that all souls together may sing out the praises of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://devotiontoholysouls.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.html">Recite The Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seventh Day: For the seventh day, Christ asked Saint Faustina to pray for the sake of all those most devoted to His mercy. She recorded the following words of Our Lord in her diary: “Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God: Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://devotiontoholysouls.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.html">Recite The Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eighth Day: For the eighth day, Saint Faustina recorded these words of Christ: “Today bring to Me the Souls who are in the prison of Purgatory, and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down their scorching flames. All these souls are greatly loved by Me. They are making retribution to My justice. It is in your power to bring them relief. Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their behalf. Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said that You desire mercy; so I bring into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls in Purgatory, souls who are very dear to You, and yet, who must make retribution to Your justice. May the streams of Blood and Water which gushed forth from Your Heart put out the flames of Purgatory, that there, too, the power of Your mercy may be celebrated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls suffering in Purgatory, who are enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. I beg You, by the sorrowful Passion of Jesus Your Son, and by all the bitterness with which His most sacred Soul was flooded: Manifest Your mercy to the souls who are under Your just scrutiny. Look upon them in no other way but only through the Wounds of Jesus, Your dearly beloved Son; for we firmly believe that there is no limit to Your goodness and compassion. Amen.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://devotiontoholysouls.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.html">Recite The Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ninth Day: For the ninth day, Christ asked Saint Faustina to pray for the sake of all the souls who have become lukewarm in their belief. She recorded the following words of Our Lord in her diary: “Today bring to Me the Souls who have become Lukewarm, and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: ‘Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.’ For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love, let these tepid souls who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://devotiontoholysouls.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.html">Recite The Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-2879868640070681582014-04-18T22:38:00.000+08:002014-04-18T22:38:09.490+08:00THE GOOD FRIDAY PRAYER FOR THE HOLY SOULS<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revealed to St. Bridget that if said devoutly 33 times on Good Friday, 33 souls will be released from Purgatory and 3 souls on ordinary Fridays.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I adore Thee, O Holy Cross, which has been adorned with the tender, delicate and venerable hands and feet of my Saviour, Jesus Christ, and immured with the Precious Blood. I adore Thee, my God, nailed to the Cross for me. I adore Thee again, O Holy Cross, for the love of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-44274230630100885722014-01-25T11:50:00.002+08:002014-01-25T11:52:26.692+08:00SAVING A SOUL MAY DEPEND ON YOU by Val Conlon<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the Message of Divine Mercy Jesus asks you to pray for those who don’t.</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the message given to St. Faustina, Jesus emphasises many times the need to pray for sinners: <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"The loss of each soul plunges Me into mortal sadness. You always console Me when you pray for sinners. The prayer most pleasing to Me is prayer for the conversion of sinners" </strong>(Diary 1397). <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Gather all sinners from the entire world and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy" </strong>(Diary 206).</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus' also requests prayer for the dying, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"By your prayers, obtain for them trust in My mercy, because they have most need of trust, and have it least. Be assured that the grace of eternal salvation for certain souls in their final moment depends on your prayer"</strong>(Diary 1777).</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also allowed St. Faustina to visit Purgatory because He wanted her to pray for the dead and perform deeds of mercy for them, bringing them relief in their suffering while in Purgatory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus also tells us how we should pray for souls, which is that we should become united with Him through love and through everything that makes up our everyday human life. We should also take part in His salvific work. He instructed St. Faustina, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"You will join prayers, fasts, mortifications, labours and all sufferings to My prayer and sufferings and then they will have power before My Father".</strong>(Diary 531)</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A special role in entreating God's mercy for the world is played by suffering. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"There is but one price at which souls are bought”</strong>, Jesus told St. Faustina, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“and that is suffering united to My suffering on the cross" </strong>(Diary 324).</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Every conversion of a sinful soul demands sacrifice" </strong>(Diary 961). The Lord Jesus told St. Faustina: <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"I have need of your sufferings to rescue souls” </strong>(Diary 1612).<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">”Help Me, My daughter to save souls. Join your sufferings to My Passion and offer them to the Heavenly Father for sinners"</strong> (Diary 1032).</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">St. Faustina had magnanimously undertook this task, providing an example for the future apostles of Divine Mercy Devotion. <em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"O my God”</em>, she wrote, <em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I am conscious of my mission in the Holy Church. It is my constant endeavour to plead for mercy for the world. I unite myself closely with Jesus and stand before Him as an atoning sacrifice on behalf of the world" </em>(Diary 482). <em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"I am being burned up by the desire to save souls; I traverse the world's length and breadth ... to save souls. I do this through prayer and sacrifice"</em>(Diary 745). By cooperating with Jesus in the task of saving lost souls, she offered her life in sacrifice for sinners and particularly for those souls who have lost hope in God's mercy (Diary 309). Her life was a continual sacrifice and that is why she was able to write, "My name is host” (Diary 485).</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The task of entreating God's mercy for the world is taken up in a very special way by the "Sisters of Merciful Jesus" founded in Vilnius by Saint Faustina on request of Our Lord.<em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> "Souls separated from the world”</em>writes St. Faustina <em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“will burn as an offering before God's throne and beg for mercy for the whole world ... and by their entreaties they will obtain blessings for priests and through their prayers prepare the world for the final coming of Jesus"</em> (Diary 1155).</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the other hand, active congregations are to combine prayer with deeds of mercy. The remaining members of the Apostolic Movement of the Divine Mercy are to act in a similar way in as far as is only in their might. Yet, a special appeal is addressed by St. Faustina to the religious, when she writes in the summing up of the order of the new congregation,<em style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Oh, how great should be the ardour of every soul who will live in that convent. Let everyone remember that if we religious do not intercede before God, who will?</em> (Diary 572).</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is also the same cause, namely that of entreating God's mercy for the whole world, that the new forms of devotion revealed to St. Faustina are to serve. They are to be the vessels by means of which we are to draw graces of God's mercy, as well as an instrument of "appeasing God's wrath". (Diary 476)</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the very foundation of each of the above-mentioned tasks lies a genuine acquaintance with and personal experience of the mystery of God's mercy. For it is on this experience that there depends one's spiritual revival, and thereby one's growth in the attitude of entrustment to God and mercy towards neighbours. It is also on this experience that there depends the effectiveness of one's apostolic activity, that is proclaiming the mystery of the Mercy of God revealed in Christ crucified and risen as well as the intensity of prayer and sacrifice in the intention of entreating mercy for oneself and for the world.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-21840710233072445312013-12-17T21:08:00.004+08:002013-12-17T21:08:44.585+08:00MOST HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY ARE RELEASED ON CHRISTMAS DAY DECEMBER 25<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This Special Day of Jesus' birth is celebrated by Christians all over the world. But did you know that the dead are the most blessed during this day? For Christmas is known to be one of the biggest days of the year for the release of souls from purgatory to heaven. This season means more than gift giving and family gatherings. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What would you want for Christmas if you were in Purgatory? HEAVEN! To see the Face of Jesus gazing on you with love for all eternity!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The suffering souls in Purgatory love, praise and Thank God. They are saved! But there greatest suffering is worse than any pain, illness, or loss on earth. They have seen the face of God! Now they know the goodness of God and want to be with him but are unable to. So the holy souls loss of the sight of God is their GREATEST suffering. This is Purgatory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Souls undergo purification necessary for heaven...they never rest. They beg for our prayers and suffrages (that is, intercessions.) We often hear, "Oh the soul of this or that person is certainly in Heaven." How often does this false charity cause souls to suffer and delay their entry into Heaven? We do not know the state of the soul at death. Only God knows this. And if the soul is in Heaven PRAISE GOD! No prayer is ever wasted. God applies our prayers to other souls. It is our obligation to pray for our dead especially our family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let us be an advocate by our prayers and turn their pain into everlasting glory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Insert the St. Gertrude prayer or your favorite Holy Souls prayer in your Christmas cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sprinkle Holy Water on the graves of your loved ones and those around them when visiting the cemetery over the holidays. Teach the children. Parents form kind and merciful hearts in your children and grandchildren. You will have planted the seed of reverence and in due time this will manifest itself and will assure you of their suffrages. KNEEL AND PRAY!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Light blessed candles. The burning candle is a sign of our prayer, a bright silent intercessor for the Holy Souls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Give the Holy Souls the Joy of a Holy Mass. Offer your Mass and indulgences for the Holy Souls on Christmas Day. Arrange to have Masses celebrated for the Holy Souls. The Mass is the most powerful form of prayer on earth we can do. It is the quickest way to move them on to their Heavenly home!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Place a special ornament on your Christmas Tree or wreath in honor of your deceased loved ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Give Alms this Christmas Season. Especially to the Missions! Priests in Mission countries have no income. Your $5 donation for a Mass for your loved ones helps them buy bread and wine for the Eucharist. Many times the people are unable to hear Mass for a whole year because the priest is unable to afford to buy gas to put into the jeep to get up to the mountains. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember, the Holy Souls are our departed loved one, friends, consecrated priests and religious. Our religious often times get neglected. Pray for the souls closest to Heaven, the most abandoned souls, most likely nonbelievers. And pray for the souls most like you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can we avoid Purgatory? You bet! Do all you can to help the Holy Souls in Purgatory. God has given us the grace to avoid Purgatory. God does not want us to go to Purgatory. God burns for love of us and the Holy Souls. He loves us more than anybody else and more than anybody can! "Our very nature is fire, created in the fire of His love. He is the fire, and we are the sparks," in the words of St. Catherine of Siena. Jesus wants to set our hearts on fire for the Holy Souls. The Immaculate Heart of Mary burns for the love of the Holy Souls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Work while it is still day! Make good use of your time and perform the work and mission that has been given to you by God so you may weave golden threads of good works, of sacraments received, of charity given, of Sundays kept holy into the tissue of your lives!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what will the Holy Souls do for us? There is no ungrateful soul in Heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is impossible to describe their unbounded gratitude to those who help them. Filled with an immense desire to repay the favors done them, they pray for us with a fervor so great, so intense, so constant that God refuses them nothing. The first act a soul does when it is released from Purgatory is to prostrate before the throne of God and pray unceasingly for those who have released now and until they are safely home in Heaven. By their prayers, they shield their friends from dangers, and protect them from the evils that threaten them. They will NEVER cease these prayers until you are safely home in Heaven. They become your sincerest, dearest and best friends for all eternity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just think of the extraordinary power and privilege God has given us. The power to release and relieve the Holy Souls. How AWESOME! Nothing gives God more glory, nothing gives Him more honor to His Holy Name, nothing rejoices His Heart more than charity for the Holy Souls. To open Heaven to the Holy Souls increases the numbers who praise and glorify God. St. Thomas Aquinas said, "Of all prayers, the most meritorious, the most acceptable to God are prayers for the dead, because they employ all the works of charity both corporal and spiritual.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Give the Holy Souls Jesus so they too may have the gift of adoring our Lord and all His glory this Christmas. Make their desire your desire. Rest assured, they are ready and waiting to help you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Susan Tassone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Susan Tassone is the author of 3 books, THE WAY OF THE CROSS FOR THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY, PRAYING IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR LORD FOR THE HOLY SOULS and THE ROSARY FOR THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY. </span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-28814200942242685602013-12-07T23:51:00.004+08:002013-12-15T21:38:19.040+08:00PRAYER FOR POOR SOULS by St. Gertrude<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus told Saint Gertrude The Great that every time this prayer is said fervently, 1,000 souls are released in purgatory. The prayer was later extended to include living sinners:</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today for all the Holy Souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the Universal Church, those in my home and within my family. Amen.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-12212663907314434962013-12-07T23:47:00.007+08:002013-12-07T23:47:54.220+08:00HOW TO AVOID PURGATORY By Fr. Paul O'Sullivan<pre style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; color: #282828; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 1. CAN WE AVOID PURGATORY?
2. HOW CAN WE AVOID PURGATORY?
3. THE FIRST MEANS: REMOVING THE CAUSE
4. THE SECOND MEANS: PENANCE
5. THE THIRD MEANS: SUFFERING
6. THE FOURTH MEANS: CONFESSION, COMMUNION, HOLY MASS
7. THE FIFTH MEANS: ASKING GOD
8. A SIXTH MEANS: RESIGNATION TO DEATH
9. THE SEVENTH MEANS: EXTREME UNCTION
10. INDULGENCES AND PURGATORY
11. THE THIRD ORDERS
12. THOSE WHO EARNESTLY HELP THE HOLY SOULS MAY WELL HOPE TO AVOID PURGATORY
13. TO AVOID PURGATORY, DO AS FOLLOWS
14. HOW WE CAN HELP THE HOLY SOULS
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FOREWORD</b>
Our Lord came on earth expressly to give us a perfect Redemption. He gave us a Law of Love, a Religion in every way to suit our human hearts, destined to make us holy and happy. His Commandments, counsels and promises all breathe peace, joy, mercy and love.
The idea that nearly all of us shall, notwithstanding, have to pass a period more or less long in the excruciating fires of Purgatory after death seems to be at variance with this all-merciful and all-loving plan of our Divine Lord.
It is true that we are weak and fall many times and that God's justice is rigorous and exacting, but it is equally certain that God's mercy and love are above all His works.
It is no less certain that Our Lord has given us abundant grace and strength to save us from sin and many (and most efficacious) means of satisfying for any sins that we may have committed. This last fact seems to be almost entirely overlooked, or imperfectly understood by the majority of Catholics.
Of course, those who go on deliberately sinning and who make no effort to correct their faults and refuse to use the many wonderful means God offers them for satisfying for sin, condemn themselves to Purgatory.
The object of this little book is to show how we can avoid Purgatory by using the means God has so generously offered us, and, secondly, to show that the use of these means is within the reach of every ordinary Christian.
The careful perusal of these pages will be a source of much benefit and consolation to all who read them.
The author offers them to the loving Heart of Jesus and asks Him to bless them.
<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chapter 1 </span></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CAN WE AVOID PURGATORY? YES.</b>
Many think that it is practically impossible for the ordinary Christian to avoid Purgatory. Go there we all must--so they say. They laughingly remark: "It will be well for us if we ever get there" Alas! When too late they will recognize how terribly rash their words were. As a
consequence of such fatalistic ideas, many make no serious effort to avoid Purgatory, or even to lessen the term they may have to pass there. Thank God all do not hold such gloomy views.
<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE SHALL STRIVE IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES TO SHOW</b>
a) How all can notably shorten their period of expiation in Purgatory; </span></pre>
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worth reading and re-reading. The fact is that a great number of souls go
to Purgatory and remain there for long years simply because they had never
been told how they could have avoided it.
The means we suggest are easy, practical and within the reach of all. Moreover, far from being irksome, the use of these means will only serve to make our lives on this earth holier and happier and will take away the exaggerated fear of death which terrifies so many.
We ask you, Dear Reader, to put this little booklet into the hands of all your friends. You cannot do them a greater service.
<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chapter 2 </span></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HOW CAN WE AVOID PURGATORY?</b>
The reason why we have to pass through Purgatory after death is that we have committed sins and have not made satisfaction for them. Every individual sin must be expiated--in this life or the next! Not even the slightest shadow of sin or evil can enter the all-holy presence of God.
The graver, the more frequent the sins, the longer will be the period of expiation and the more intense the pain.
It is not God's fault, nor God's wish, that we go to Purgatory! The fault is all our own.
We have sinned and have not made satisfaction. Even after our sin, God, in His infinite goodness, places at our disposal many easy and efficacious means by which we may considerably lessen our term of expiation, or even entirely cancel it.
Most Christians, with incomprehensible rashness, neglect these means and so have to pay their debts in the dreadful prison house of Purgatory.
We will briefly enumerate some of the principal means by which we can avoid Purgatory-or at least lessen its severity and duration.
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The First Means of avoiding Purgatory is manifestly to remove the cause which sends us there, which is sin.
It may not be easy to refrain from all sin, even the smaller sins, but every ordinary Christian can, by the frequent use of the Sacraments, easily abstain from mortal sin.
Secondly, we can all avoid deliberate and grave venial sin. It is an awful thing to offend the good God deliberately. Deliberation intensifies enormously the malice of sin and offends God much more than faults of weakness, or sins committed when we are off our guard.
Lastly, we must use our best endeavours to break off bad habits. Habits, like deliberation, add seriously to the malice of sin. A deliberate falsehood is very much worse than a hasty lie of excuse, and a lie resulting from the inveterate habit of lying is very much worse than a casual lie.
A lady once told us how she had, when younger, the habit of constantly speaking ill of her neighbours.
Having heard a sermon on the subject, she made a strong resolution never to do so again, and kept it.
That simple, strong resolution changed the whole trend of her life and saved her from thousands of sins, and most surely from a long and painful Purgatory.
Who cannot make a like resolution and keep it?
If a Christian avoids, as he easily can, these three classes of sin, viz., mortal sins, deliberate and grave venial sins, and habits of sin, it will be relatively easy for him to atone for faults of frailty, as we shall presently see.
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We would be well advised to pronounce with special emphasis and fervour, every time we say the Our Father, the words:
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us"
These are the very words of God Himself and repeated frequently and fervently will certainly obtain for us pardon of our sins.
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The Second Means of avoiding Purgatory is to satisfy for our sins in this life by doing penance. "Do penance or you shall all likewise perish" Do penance, or you will burn long years in Purgatory, is a fact that there is no getting away from.
This is a terrifying thought and one that makes the bravest man shudder. Which of us does not tremble when he thinks of those who have been burnt to death in a slow fire? What fear would not be ours if we had to face a similar death? Yet their suffering was of relatively short duration. The incomparably fiercer fire of Purgatory, which we may have to face, may last 20, or 50 or 100 years!
Many people have such a horror of penance that they never even dream of practicing it. It is like the fear that children have of ghosts, a very great but a very unfounded fear. Their idea is that penance is something awful They think perhaps of the severe penances of the great Saints and of course are afraid to attempt anything of a like kind.
God does not ask us, as a rule, to do what is heroic. When He does, He gives us all the strength necessary, as in the case of the Saints. He asks each one to do a little. If we are afraid of doing much, and it is only natural that some should be, let us do at least a little. No one but a coward is afraid to do a little, especially if he gets much in exchange.
The easy road to Heaven of Saint Therese, the Little Flower, is to do many little things. God was infinitely pleased with the widow's mite; He will be equally pleased with our little penances.
As a result of little mortifications, we can deliver ourselves from the awful fires of Purgatory and amass rich merits for Heaven. To go into the matter further, there is not much difficulty about mortification or penance, notwithstanding the absurd fear that people have of it.
Penance is not only easy, it is useful and necessary, and it will bring us very great happiness. Not to do penance is the greatest penance of all. As a matter of fact, every man of the world naturally, spontaneously mortifies himself. The first principle, for instance, of politeness and good breeding is to sacrifice our whims and tastes for the sake of others. The selfish man is a boor; the generous man is the idol of all.
Again, the only way of securing good health is to eschew the most appetizing viands when they do us harm and to make use of plain foods when they do us good. Overeating is the cause of the vast majority of sickness and premature deaths.
To take another example. The secret of success is strenuous, methodical, regular work. Now generosity, self-denial, method, regularity are other forms of very genuine but practical mortification. Yet no man can get on without them. To insist on our own likes and dislikes, to do only as we please, is to lead a life bristling with difficulties, in which every duty is a burden, every good act an effort and a labor.</span></pre>
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The Third Means of avoiding Purgatory is very easy. It consists in making a virtue of necessity, by bearing patiently what we cannot avoid, and all the more since suffering, borne patiently, becomes easy and light. Suffering, if accepted with calmness and for God's sake, loses all its sting. If received badly, in the spirit of revolt and with repugnance, it is
intensified a hundredfold, and becomes almost intolerable.
Everyone in this vale of tears has to face sorrows innumerable and infinite in variety. Crosses light and crosses heavy are the lot of us all. Strange as it may seem, these sorrows, which most of us would gladly dispense with, are in truth God's greatest graces. They are the little share He offers us of His Passion and which He asks us to bear for love of Him and as penance for our sins.
Borne in this spirit they will lessen considerably our time in Purgatory and very possibly completely remove it--with this difference, that Purgatory, even a Purgatory of 50 or 100 years, will in no wise increase our merits in Heaven; whereas, every pain and sorrow and disappointment in this life will lessen our suffering in Purgatory, and also bring us more
happiness and glory in Heaven.
How sad it is that so many Christians, for want of thought, make their sufferings a thousand times worse than they are and lose all the immense merits that they could so easily gain.
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Let us suffer with calmness and serenity for the love of God. We shall thus save ourselves from Purgatory.
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The Fourth Means by which we can lessen our time in Purgatory, or avoid it altogether, is by frequent Confession, Communion and daily assistance at Mass.
Confession applies to our souls the Precious Blood of Christ, wipes out our sins, gives us light to see their malice, fills us with horror of sin and, above all, it gives us strength to avoid it. In Holy Communion we receive the God of infinite mercy and love, the God of all sanctity, who comes expressly to pardon our sins and help us to sin no more.
He visited the house of Zaccheus once, and in that one visit, Zaccheus obtained complete pardon of all his sins.</span></pre>
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Many, alas, never feel, never grasp the immense joys and consolation of Holy Communion.
The Mass is identical with the Sacrifice of Calvary, in its essence, in its value, in the graces it bestows. The Sacrifice of Calvary was sufficient to save all the world, millions and millions of souls, and was also sufficient to save countless other sinful worlds, had they existed. By assisting at Mass, we can apply all these oceans of graces to our own souls, and that not once, but every day.
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Let us go to Mass and Holy Communion every day. We can do nothing better. One day with Mass and Communion is worth a hundred days without them.
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The Fifth Means of avoiding Purgatory is asking God for this grace. Some wise Catholics have a really great, if simple secret, which is well worth learning and using for our own benefit.
God promises us in the most solemn and deliberate way (and He cannot fail to do what He promises) that He will give us everything we ask in prayer, if it is good for us.
Now two conditions, especially, make prayer infallible, namely perseverance and faith. God cannot refuse such a prayer.
These Catholics we speak of pray expressly every day of their lives that God will free them from Purgatory. In every single prayer they say, in every Mass they hear, in every good act they perform, they have the express intention of asking God first of all and with all their hearts to deliver them from Purgatory.
How? That is for God to decide.
It is not easy to see how God can possibly refuse such constant, unceasing prayer. The fact that such prayers are said daily and many times in the day, for 20, 30, 50 years, shows that they are said with undoubting faith and magnificent perseverance.
We exhort all our readers to adopt this practice. The more they know and think on Purgatory, the more fervently will they make this prayer.
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A Sixth Means of avoiding Purgatory is given us by some great saints: They say that when a sick person becomes aware that he is dying and offers to God his death with perfect resignation, it is very likely that he will go straight to Heaven.
Death is the awful punishment of sin, and when we accept it, as of course we ought to do, with submission and resignation, our act pleases God so much that it may satisfy perfectly for all our sins.
The idea of Pope St. Pius X was the same when he granted a plenary indulgence at the hour of death to those who say at least after one Holy Communion the following prayer:
"Eternal Father, from this day forward, I accept with a joyful and resigned heart the death it will please You to send me, with all its pains and sufferings"
It will be better still to say this prayer after every Holy Communion we receive.
It is for our best interest to accept God's will in everything that happens to us in life and in death.
Nothing can be easier when we remember that God always wishes what is best for us. If we do what God does not will, we shall surely suffer.
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Each time we repeat the Our Father, let us say with special fervour the words: Thy will be done. In all our troubles, small and great, let us do likewise. Thus everything will gain us merit. By this simple act we change sorrow into joy, the worries of life into gold for Heaven.
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The Seventh Means of avoiding Purgatory is Extreme Unction: God Himself has given us a Sacrament, the end of which is to take us directly to Heaven. This Sacrament is Extreme Unction, which according to St. Thomas and St. Albert was instituted especially to obtain for us the grace of a holy and happy death and to prepare us for immediate entrance into Heaven.
Many Catholics do not understand this most consoling doctrine, and because they do not understand it, they prepare themselves insufficiently for the reception of Extreme Unction and so lose many of its great graces.
Every Sacrament properly received produces its effect. Baptism cleanses us from Original Sin and any other actual sins that may have been committed by adults before receiving the Sacrament.
The Sacrament of Holy Orders gives a priest all his tremendous powers. Matrimony makes man and woman husband and wife. In the same way Extreme Unction, if devoutly received, prepares the dying Christian for immediate entrance into Heaven, thus delivering him from Purgatory.
How foolish it is, therefore, to put off receiving this Sacrament until very late, when the dying person is too exhausted to receive it with full knowledge of what he is doing and with due fervour and devotion. The moment of death is the supreme moment in our lives. It is the moment which decides our fate for all Eternity.
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Let us use every means in our power to secure a happy and holy death, especially by receiving most devoutly, and as soon as possible, Extreme Unction.
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[The grants of indulgences were changed in 1968. See the Enchiridion of Indulgences 1968]
God in His infinite mercy and compassion offers us a most wonderful and easy means for lessening or cancelling our Purgatory.
Fully aware of our weakness, and knowing, too, how fearful many are of penance, He opens wide the treasury of His Goodness and offers us most abundant Indulgences in exchange for some small act of devotion.
For one recitation of short ejaculatory prayers, He grants 100 or 300 or more days Indulgence. These we may say hundreds of times in the day. Those who say the little ejaculation: "Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee" one hundred times a day gain 30,000 days Indulgence. Those who say it 1,000 times, as many do, gain 300,000 days Indulgence each day!
Nothing can be easier than to acquire the habit of saying this little prayer all day long, countless times each day.
Then, for each Hail Mary of the Rosary, one gains more than 2,000 days Indulgence!
Besides an immense number of Partial Indulgences, there are very many Plenary (full, complete) Indulgences which may be gained during life and at the hour of death.
These are specially given by the Church to enable us to avoid Purgatory. These Indulgences can be applied to our own souls, and we shall thus directly make satisfaction for our sins. Or, we may apply them to the souls in Purgatory, who will see to it that we do not lose by our generosity.</span></pre>
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Let us strive to gain all possible Indulgences.
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Among the extraordinary graces which Catholics gain by becoming members of a Third Order is a share in many Masses and prayers.
To mention, for instance, the Third Order of Saint Dominic, Pope Benedict XV, himself a Tertiary, said: "One of the easiest and most effectual ways of reaching a high degree of sanctity is by becoming a Dominican Tertiary" The members of this order receive during life a share every day in thousands of Masses and prayers, and after death, when, alas, so many are neglected by their relatives, those who are members of this Third Order
have a share daily in thousands of other Masses and prayers, this for as long as they remain in Purgatory!
Among the many beautiful characteristics of the Order of St. Dominic is its intense devotion and love for the Holy Souls, especially for the souls of its members, friends and benefactors. So true is this that a young Italian nobleman who consulted the Pope as to which religious order he would do well to enter received for answer: "My dear son, you may with much profit join any of the Orders, for in each you will find abundant means of
becoming a Saint. After death, however, be a Dominican" The Holy Father meant to imply that the suffrages given after death to their deceased members are, indeed, most abundant in the Dominican Order.
The conditions of becoming a member of this order are so easy and the advantages so many that half the world would become Dominican Tertiaries did they know these advantages.
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The Holy Souls whom we relieve or release by our Masses and good works pray for us with such indescribable fervour that God cannot refuse to hear their prayers. One of the principal graces they ask for their friends is that these shall have little or no Purgatory. No one knows better than they the awful intensity of the Purgatorial flames; no one, therefore, can pray for us as they do. Let us remember that:
a) God thanks as done to Himself what we do to others. When we relieve or release any of the Holy Souls, we relieve or release, as it were, God Himself. How ready, therefore, will He not be to hear the prayers offered by these souls for us.
b) Our Blessed Lord lays down clearly the great law: "By that measure by which you measure, it will be measured to you again" In proportion, consequently, to our generosity towards the Holy Souls will God's mercy and generosity be towards us. Those who work heart and soul for the relief of the Holy Souls may thus well hope that their Purgatory will be entirely remitted, or notably lessened. On the other hand, those who neglect the
Holy Souls may justly fear a severe judgment and a long Purgatory.
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Let everyone without fail join the Association of the Holy Souls. All the members of the family should do so. The conditions are very easy. If the Association is not established in your Parish, write to: Association of the Holy Souls, Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary, Pius XII Monastery, Rua do Rosario 1, 2495 Fatima, Portugal, which is one of the centers of the devotion.
St. James the Apostle gives another very effectual method of avoiding or lessening our stay in Purgatory. He says: "He who saves a soul, saves his own, and satisfies for a multitude of sins"
If someone were fortunate enough to save the life of a King's only son, the heir to his throne, from a horrible death, what reward might he not expect to receive from the grateful monarch? No King, however, could be as grateful to and anxious to reward the person who saved his son as God is grateful and ready to reward the person who saves one soul from Hell.
All of us may, in a thousand different ways, save not one but many souls from Hell. For instance :
1. We can do so by praying earnestly for them. How often does not a mother save her son's soul by her fervent prayers. We can save souls by giving good advice and also by our good example. How many boys owe their sterling qualities to the wise counsels of a good Father or friend!
2. Another efficacious method of saving souls is by propagating the Faith, viz., Catholic Action.
The incredible ignorance, apathy and indifference of Catholics is the evil of the day!
It is the bounden duty of Catholics to spread about thousands and thousands of pamphlets of all kinds, full of life, vigour and burning interest, crisp, incisive, clear and strong. Otherwise, these are useless.
Each pamphlet or leaflet must carry a message straight to the heart of the reader, rousing him, convincing him, galvanising him into action.
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1. In every prayer you say, every Mass you hear, every Communion you receive, every good work you perform, have the express intention of imploring God to grant you a holy and happy death and no Purgatory. Surely God will hear a prayer said with such confidence and perseverance.
2. Always wish to do God's will. It is in every sense the best for you. When you do or seek anything that is not God's will, you are sure to suffer. Say fervently, therefore, each time you recite the Our Father: "Thy will be done"
3. Accept all the sufferings, sorrows, pains and disappointments of life, be they great or small: ill health, loss of goods, the death of your dear ones, heat or cold, rain or sunshine, as coming from God. Bear them calmly and patiently for love of Him and in penance for your sins. Of course one may use all his efforts to ward off trouble and pain, but when one cannot avoid them let him bear them manfully.
Impatience and revolt make sufferings vastly greater and more difficult to bear.
4. Christ's life and actions are so many lessons for us to imitate. The greatest act in His life was His Passion. As He had a Passion, so each one of us has a passion. Our passion consists in the sufferings and labours of every day. The penance God imposed on man for sin was to gain his bread in the sweat of his brow. Therefore, let us do our work, accept its disappointments and hardships, and bear our pains in union with the Passion of Christ. We gain more merit by a little pain than by years of pleasure.
5. Forgive all injuries and offences, for in proportion as we forgive others, God forgives
us.
6. Avoid mortal sins and deliberate venial sins and break off all bad habits. Then it will be relatively easy to satisfy God's justice for sins of frailty. Above all, avoid sins against charity and against chastity, whether in thought, word or deed, for these sins [and the expiation for them] are the reason why many souls are detained in Purgatory for long
years.
7. If afraid of doing much, do many little things, acts of kindness and charity, give the alms you can, cultivate regularity of life, method in work, and punctuality in the performance of duty; don't grumble or complain when things are not as you please; don't censure and complain of others; never refuse to do a favour to others when it is possible.
These and such like little acts are a splendid penance.
8. Do all in your power for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Pray for them constantly, get others to do so, join the Association of the Holy Souls and ask all those you know to do likewise. The Holy Souls will repay you most generously.
9. There is no way more powerful of obtaining from God a most holy and happy death than by weekly Confession, daily Mass and daily Communion.
10. A daily visit to the Blessed Sacrament--it need only be three or four minutes--is an easy way of obtaining the same grace. Kneeling in the presence of Jesus with eyes fixed on the Tabernacle, sure that He is looking at us, let us for a few minutes repeat some little prayer like these: "My Jesus, mercy." "My Jesus, have pity on me, a sinner" "My Jesus, I love You" "My Jesus, give me a happy death"
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I. The first means is by joining the Association of the Holy Souls. The conditions are easy.
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2. The members must offer up a Mass once a week for the Holy Souls (Sunday's Mass can fulfil this obligation).
3. The members pray for and promote devotion to the Holy Souls. (We recommend the booklets Read Me or Rue It and How to Avoid Purgatory.)
4. The members are asked to contribute a yearly alms to the Mass Fund. The alms is used to have Masses said for the Holy Souls every month.
II. A second means of helping the Holy Souls is having Masses offered for them. This is certainly the most efficacious way of relieving them.
III. Those who cannot get many Masses offered, owing to want of means, ought to assist at as many Masses as possible for this intention.
A young man who was earning a very modest salary told the writer: "My wife died a few years ago. I got 10 Masses said for her. I could not possibly do more but heard 1,000 for her dear soul "
IV. The recital of the Rosary (with its great indulgences) and the Way of the Cross (which is also richly indulgenced) are excellent means of helping the Holy Souls.
St. John Massias, as we saw, released from Purgatory more than a million souls, chiefly by reciting the Rosary and offering its great indulgences for them.
V. Another easy and efficacious way is by the constant repetition of short indulgenced prayers, offering up the indulgences for the Souls in Purgatory. Many people have the custom of saying 500 or 1,000 times each day the little ejaculation, "Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee" or the one word, "Jesus" These are most consoling devotions and bring oceans of graces to those who practice them and give immense relief to the
Holy Souls.
Those who say the ejaculations 1,000 times a day gain 300,000 days Indulgence! What a multitude of souls they can thus relieve! What will it not be at the end of a month, a year--or 50 years? And if they do not say the ejaculations, what an immense number of graces and favours they shall have lost. It is quite possible and even easy to say these ejaculations
1,000 times a day. But if one does not say them 1,000 times, let him say them 500 or 200 times.
VI. Still another powerful prayer is: "Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, with all the Masses being said all over the world this day, for the Souls in Purgatory."
Our Lord showed St. Gertrude a vast number of souls leaving Purgatory and going to Heaven as a result of this prayer which the Saint was accustomed to say frequently during the day.
VII. The Heroic Act consists in offering to God in favour of the Souls in Purgatory all the works of satisfaction we practice during life and all the suffrages that will be offered for us after death. If God rewards so abundantly the most trifling alms given to a poor man in His name, what an immense reward will He not give to those who offer all their works of
satisfaction in life and death for the souls He loves so dearly.
This Act does not prevent priests from offering Mass for the intentions they wish, or lay people from praying for any persons or other intentions they desire. We counsel everyone to make this act.
<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ALMS HELP THE HOLY SOULS</b>
St. Martin gave half of his cloak to a poor beggar, only to find out afterwards that it was to Christ he had given it. Our Lord appeared to him and thanked him.
Blessed Jordan of the Dominican Order could never refuse an alms when it was asked in the name of God. One day he had forgotten his purse. A poor man implored an alms for the love of God. Rather than refuse him, Jordan, who was then a student, gave him a most precious belt or cincture which he prized dearly. Shortly afterwards, he entered a church and found his cincture encircling the waist of an image of Christ Crucified. He, too, had
given his alms to Christ. We all give our alms to Christ.
<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">RESOLUTION</b>
a) Let us give all the alms we can afford; </span></pre>
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We shall thus deliver countless souls from Purgatory, who will repay us ten thousand times over.
<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Appendix I </span></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE BROWN SCAPULAR</b>
(The following official information was obtained from the National Scapular center, Darien, Illinois, May 9, 1986.)
Two wonderful promises of Our Lady of Mount Carmel are available to those who have been enrolled in the Brown Scapular.
The great promise of the Blessed Virgin Mary, given to St. Simon Stock on July 16, 1251, is as follows: "Whoever dies wearing this scapular shall not suffer eternal fire."
Our Lady's second Scapular Promise, known as the Sabbatine Privilege (the word "Sabbatine" meaning "Saturday"), was given by the Blessed Virgin Mary to Pope John XXII in the year 1322 and is as follows: "I, the Mother of Grace, shall descend on the Saturday after their death, and whomsoever I shall find in Purgatory, I shall free."
There are three conditions for obtaining this privilege: </span></pre>
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<pre style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; color: #282828; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">2) the practice of chastity according to one's state of life; </span></pre>
<pre style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; color: #282828; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">3) the daily recitation of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Those who cannot read can abstain from meat on Wednesdays and Saturdays instead of reciting the Little Office. Also, any priest who has diocesan faculties (this includes most priests) has the additional faculty to commute (change) the third requirement into another pious work--for example, the daily Rosary.
Because of the greatness of the Sabbatine privilege, the Carmelite Order suggests that the third requirement not be commuted into anything less than the daily recitation of seven Our Fathers, seven Hail Marys, and seven Glory Be to the Fathers.</span></pre>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-71937232297845301572013-12-02T21:08:00.001+08:002013-12-02T21:11:09.368+08:00AMAZING SECRET OF THE SOULS IN PURGATORY [An interview with Maria Simma written by Sister Emmanuel of Medjugorje]<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">This Story Fills A
Void:</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">One day, I read with great
interest a book about the souls in Purgatory. It struck me so much because it
related very recent testimonies and also explained very well the Church's
doctrine on the subject. It is a book by Maria Simma, called The Souls in
Purgatory ...Straight away, I wrote to the editor who told me that Maria Simma
is alive. Quickly, I contacted her and she agreed to meet me to answer my
questions, which were many! I was delighted, because each time I have the
opportunity to speak or preach on the poor souls, I've found that there is an
immense, extraordinary interest on the part of my listeners. Often, they beg me
to tell them more, pushing me further, asking me: "Tell us more, other
things about these souls." I saw clearly that this fulfilled a vital thirst,
a thirst to know what is waiting for us, each of us, after death.</span></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">It must be said too that these things are scarcely
taught any more in parishes, in regular catechism, in chaplaincies, practically
nowhere. So there's a great emptiness, a great lack, if you prefer, a great
ignorance, even a certain anguish in the face of these realities of the final
things. Therefore, this booklet will help us not only to get rid of this
anguish once and for all, with regard to Purgatory but will also enlighten us,
hopefully, and enable us to understand that God's plan for us, for our destiny,
is absolutely magnificent, splendid, worthy of our enthusiasm! Also, that we
have in our hands an immense power on this earth to give happiness for
ourselves as well, in our own lives.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Today, Maria Simma is 82; she lives alone in her
little house in Sonntag, a very lovely village in the Vorarlberg mountains in
Austria, and that is where I met her.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who is Maria Simma?</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">A simple country woman who, since her childhood,
has prayed a great deal for the souls in Purgatory. When she was twenty-five,
she was favored with a very particular charism in the Church, very rare too,
the charism of being visited by the souls in Purgatory. She is a fervent
Catholic and has a great humility -- this struck me a lot; she has a great
simplicity too. She is very much encouraged in her task by her parish priest
and her bishop. In spite of the quite extraordinary character of her charism,
she lives in real poverty. For example, in her little room we hardly had enough
space to move around the chairs she had offered us...</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">An extraordinary charism? Yes, but which obviously
has deep roots in the history of the church, for many are the saints --
canonized or not -- who have exercised this charism. I could mention, for
example, St. Gertrude, St. Catherine of Genoa, who wrote much on the subject.
Maryam of Jesus, St. Margaret Mary of Paray-le-Monial who had the vision of the
Sacred Heart, the Holy Cure of Ars, Blessed Faustina, St. John Bosco, Blessed
Maryam of Bethlehem, etc. A book could be written on the subject; in fact I
think several have! When we look closely at the teaching of these saints, we
see that all of them say the same thing; and Maria Simma for her part only
relives their beautiful testimony. This is why I did not hesitate to interview
her, as she has the advantage for us of living in our times, and is willing to
make herself available. You can easily imagine that I swamped her with
questions, I made the most of it!... The problem is she doesn't speak a word of
French, and for this reason I had to use an interpreter. For the sake of
brevity and clarity I will sum up some of Maria's answers and, at other times,
give you the translation of her own words. I will also add, here and there, my
personal comments.</span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Interview with Maria
Simma</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Maria, Can you tell us how
you were visited for the first time by a soul in Purgatory?</span></span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, it was in 1940. One night, around 3 or
4 o'clock in the morning, I heard someone coming into my bedroom. This woke me
up; I looked to see who on earth could have walked into my bedroom.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Were you afraid?</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">No, I'm not at all the fearful. Even when I was a
little child, my mother said I was a special child because I was never afraid.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>So, that night...tell us!</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Well, I saw a complete stranger. He walked back
and forth slowly. I said to him severely: "How did you get in here? Go
away!" But he continued to walk impatiently around the bedroom, as if he
hadn't heard. So I asked him again; "What are you doing?" but as he
still didn't answer, I jumped out of the bed and tried to grab him, but I
grasped only air. There was nothing there, So I went back to bed, but again I
heard him pacing back and forth.I wondered how I could see this man, but I
couldn't grab him. I rose again to hold onto him and stop him walking around;
again, I grasped only emptiness. Puzzled, I went back to bed. He didn't come
back, but I couldn't get back to sleep. The next day, after Mass, I went to see
my spiritual director and told him everything. He told me that if this should
happen, I shouldn't ask, "Who are you?: but "What do you want from
me?" The following night, the man returned, definitely the same man. I
asked him, "What do you want from me?" He replied: "Have three
Masses celebrated for me and I will be delivered." So I understood that it
was a soul in Purgatory. My spiritual father confirmed this. He also advised me
never to turn away the poor souls, but to accept with generosity whatever they
asked of me.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>And afterwards, the visits continued?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes. For several years, there were only three or
four souls, above all in November. Afterwards, there were more.</span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">A Love Wound</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">What do these souls ask of
you?</span></span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In most cases, they ask to have Masses celebrated
and that one be present at these Masses; they ask to have the rosary said and
also that one make the Stations of the Cross. At this point, the major question
is raised: What exactly is Purgatory? I'd say that it's a marvelous invention
of God. Let me give you an image which is my own. Suppose that one day a door opens,
and a splendid being appears, extremely beautiful, of a beauty that has never
been seen on earth. You are fascinated, overwhelmed by this being of light and
beauty, even more so that this being shows that he is madly in love with you --
you have never dreamed of being loved so much. You sense too that he has a
great desire to draw you to him, to be one with you. And the fire of love which
burns in your heart impels you to throw yourself into his arms. But wait -- you
realize at this moment that you haven't washed for months and months, that you
smell bad; your nose is running, your hair is greasy and matted, there are big
dirty stains on your clothes, etc. So you say to yourself, "No, I just
can't present myself in this state. First I must go and wash: a good shower,
then straight away I'll come back."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">But the love which has been born in your heart is
so intense, so burning, so strong, that this delay for the shower is absolutely
unbearable. And the pain of the absence, even if it only lasts for a couple of
minutes, is an atrocious wound in the heart, proportional to the intensity of
the revelation of the love -- it is a "love-wound".</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Purgatory is exactly this. It's a delay imposed by
our impurity, a delay before God's embrace, a wound of love which causes
intense suffering, a waiting, if you like, a nostalgia for love. It is
precisely this burning, this longing which cleanses us of whatever is still
impure in us. Purgatory is a place of desire, a mad desire for God, desire for
this God whom we already know, for we have seen him, but with whom we are not
yet united.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Now I am going to ask Maria to clarify a
fundamental point: Maria, do the souls in Purgatory have, nevertheless, joy and
hope in the mist of their suffering?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes. No soul would want to come back from
Purgatory to the earth. They have knowledge which is infinitely beyond ours.
They just could not decide to return to the darkness of the earth. Here we see
the difference from the suffering that we know on earth. In Purgatory, even if
the pain of the soul is terrible, there is the certitude of living forever with
God. It's an unshakeable certitude. The joy is greater than the pain. There is
nothing on earth which could make them want to live here again, where one is
never sure of anything.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, can you tell us now if it is God who
sends a soul into Purgatory, or if the soul itself decides to go there?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">It is the soul itself which wants to go to
Purgatory, in order to be pure before going to Heaven. The souls in Purgatory
adhere fully to God's will; they rejoice in the good, they desire our good and
they love us very much: they love God, and they love us too. They are perfectly
united to the Spirit of God, the light of God.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, at the moment of death, does one see God
in full light or in an obscure manner?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In a manner still obscure, but, all the same, in
such brightness that this is enough to cause great longing. Actually, it's such
a dazzling brightness compared with the darkness of the earth! And it's still
nothing compared with the full light the soul will know when it arrives in
Heaven. Here we can refer to "near death experiences." The soul is
drawn by this light that it is agony for it to return to earth in its body,
after this experience. </span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Charity covers a multitude
of sins</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Maria, can you tell us what
the role of Our Lady is with the souls in Purgatory?</span></span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">She comes often to console them and to tell them
they have done many good things. She encourages them.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Are there any days in particular on which she
delivers them?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Above all, Christmas Day, All Saints Day, Good
Friday, the Feast of the Assumption, and the Ascension of Jesus.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, why does one go to Purgatory? What are
the sins which most lead to Purgatory?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Sins against charity, against the love of one's
neighbor, hardness of heart, hostility, slandering, calumny -- all these
things.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Saying wicked things and calumny are among the
worst blemishes which require a long purification?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Here, Maria gives us an example which really
struck her which I would like to share with you. She had been asked to find out
if a woman and a man were in Purgatory. To the great astonishment of those who
had asked, the woman was already in Heaven and the man was in Purgatory. In
fact, this woman had died while undergoing an abortion, whereas the man often went
to church and apparently lead a worthy, devout life. So Maria searched for more
information, thinking she'd been mistaken -- but no, it was true. They had died
at practically the same moment, but the woman had experienced deep repentance,
and was very humble, whereas the man criticized everyone; he was always
complaining and saying bad things about others. This is why his Purgatory
lasted so long. And Maria concluded: "We musn't judge on
appearances."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Other sins against charity are all our rejection of
certain people we do not like, our refusals to make peace, our refusals to
forgive, and all the bitterness we store inside. Maria also illustrated this
point with another example which gave us food for thought. It's the story of a
woman she knew very well. This lady died and was in Purgatory, in the most
terrible Purgatory, with the most atrocious sufferings. And when she came to
Maria, she explained why: She had had a female friend; between them arose a
great enmity, caused by herself. She had maintained this enmity for years and
years, even though her friend had many times asked for peace, for
reconciliation, but each time she refused. When she fell gravely ill, she
continued to close her heart, to refuse the reconciliation offered by her
friend, right up to her deathbed. I believe that this example has great
significance concerning rancor which is maintained. And our words, too, can be
destructive; we can never emphasize enough how much a critical or bitter word
can truly kill -- but also, on the contrary, how much a word can heal.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, please tell us: who are those who have
the greatest chance of going straight to Heaven?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Those who have a good heart towards everyone. Love
covers a multitude of sins.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, Saint Paul himself tells us this! </span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>What are the means which we can take on earth
to avoid Purgatory and go straight to Heaven?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">We must do a great deal for the souls in
Purgatory, for they help us in their turn. We must have much humility; this is
the greatest weapon against evil, against the Evil One. Humility drives evil
away.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">I can't resist telling you a very lovely testimony
of Father Berlioux (who wrote a wonderful book on the souls in Purgatory),
concerning the help offered by these souls to those who relieve them by their
prayer and suffrages. He tells the story of a person particularly devoted to
the poor souls who had consecrated her life to their relief.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"At the hour of her death, she was attacked
with fury by the demon who saw her at the point of escaping from him. It seemed
that the entire abyss was united against her, surrounding her with its infernal
troops. "The dying woman struggled excruciatingly for some time when
suddenly she saw entering her apartment, a crowd of unknown people of dazzling
beauty, who put the demon to flight and, approaching her bed, spoke to her with
the most heavenly encouragement and consolations. With her last breath, in
great joy, she cried; 'Who are you? Who are you, please, you should do so much
good to me?"</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"The benevolent visitors replied: 'We are
inhabitants of Heaven, whom your help has led to Beatitude. And we in our turn
come in gratitude to help you cross the threshold of eternity and rescue you
from this place of anguish to bring you into the joy of the Holy City'.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"At these words, a smile lit up the face of
the dying woman, her eyes closed and she fell asleep in the peace of the Lord.
Her soul, pure as a dove, presented to the Lord of lords, found as many
protectors and advocates as souls she had delivered, and recognized worthy of
glory, she entered in triumph, among the applause and blessings of all those
she had rescued from Purgatory. May we, one day, have the same happiness."</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">The souls delivered by our prayer are extremely
grateful: they help us in our lives; it's most perceptible. I strongly recommend
that you experience this yourself! They do help us; they know our needs and
obtain many graces for us.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, I am thinking of the Good Thief who was
next to Jesus on the Cross. I really would like to know what he did for Jesus
to promise him that this very day onwards, he would be in the Kingdom with him?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">He humbly accepted his suffering, saying that it
was justice. And he encouraged the other thief to accept his too. He had the
fear of God, which means humility.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Another beautiful example related by Maria
Simma shows how a good action makes up for a whole life of sin. Let's hear it
from Maria herself:</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"I knew a young man of about twenty, in a
nearby village. This young man's village had been cruelly stricken by a series
of avalanches which had killed a large number of people. One night, this young
man was in his parents' house when he heard an avalanche just next door to his
house. He heard piercing screams, heartrending screams, 'Save us! Come, save
us! We are trapped beneath the avalanche! Leaping up, he rose from his bed and
rushed downstairs to go to the rescue of these people. His mother had heard the
screams and prevented him from leaving; she blocked the door, saying 'No! Let
others go and help them, not always us! It's too dangerous outside, I don't
want yet another death!' But he, because he had been deeply affected by these
screams, really wanted to go to the rescue of these people; he pushed his
mother aside. He said to her: 'Yes! I'm going! I can't let them die like
this!" He went out, and then he himself, on the path, was struck by an
avalanche and was killed. Three days after his death, he comes to visit me, at
night, and he says to me: 'Have three Masses said for me; by this, I will be
delivered from Purgatory.' I went to inform his family and friends; they were
astonished to know that after only three Masses, he would be delivered from
Purgatory. His friends said to me: 'Oh, I wouldn't have liked to have been in
his place in the moment of death, if you'd seen all the bad things he'd done!"
But this young man said to me: "You see, I'd made an act of pure love in
risking my life for these people; it's thanks to this that the Lord welcomed me
so quickly into his Heaven. Yes, charity covers a multitude of sins..."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>This story shows us that charity, a single act
of love given freely, had been sufficient to purify this young man from a
dissolute life; and the Lord had made the most of this moment of love. Maria in
fact added that this young man might never again have had the opportunity to
offer such a great act of love, and might have turned bad. The Lord, in his
mercy, took him just at the moment when he appeared before him at his most
beautiful, most pure, because of this act of love. It is very important, at the
hour of death, to abandon oneself to God's will.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria told me of the case of a mother of four
children who was about to die. Instead of rebelling and worrying, she said to
the Lord: "I accept death, as long as it is your will, and I put my life
in your hands. I entrust my sons to you and I know that you will take care of
them." Maria said that, because of her immense trust in God, this woman
went straight to Heaven and avoided Purgatory. Therefore, we really can say
that love, humility and abandonment to God are the three golden keys to going
directly to Heaven.</b></span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Offer a Mass for them</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Maria, can you now tell us
what are the most effective means to help deliver the souls in Purgatory?</span></span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">The most efficient means is the Mass.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Why the Mass?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Because it is Christ who offers himself out of
love for us. It is the offering of Christ himself to God, the most beautiful
offering. The priest is God's representative, but it is God himself who offers
himself and sacrifices himself for us. The efficacy of the Mass for the
deceased is even greater for those who attach great value to the Mass during
their lives. If they attended Mass and prayed with all their hearts, if they
went to Mass on weekdays -- according to their time available -- they draw
great profit from Masses celebrated for them. Here, too, one harvests what one
has sown. A soul in Purgatory sees very clearly on the day of his funeral if we
really pray for him or if we have simply made an act of presence to show we
were there. The poor souls say that tears are no good to them, only prayer.
Often they complain that people go to a funeral without addressing a single
prayer to God, while shedding many tears; this is useless!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Concerning the Mass, I will quote a beautiful
example given by the Cure of Ars to his parishioners. He told them:</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"My children, a good priest had the
unhappiness to lose a friend he cherished tenderly, and so he prayed very much
for the repose of his soul. One day, God made known to him that his friend was
in Purgatory and suffered terribly. The holy priest believed that he could not
do better than to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for his dear friend who
had died. At the moment of the consecration, he took the host between his
fingers and said 'Holy Eternal Father, let us make an exchange. You hold the
soul of my friend who is in Purgatory, and I hold the Body of Your Son in my
hands. Well good and merciful Father; deliver my friend and I offer you your
Son with all the merits of his death and Passion.'</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"The request was answered. In fact, at the
moment of the elevation, he saw the soul of his friend, shining in glory,
rising to Heaven; God had accepted the deal.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"My children, when we want to deliver from
Purgatory a soul dear to us, let us do the same; let us offer to God, through
the Holy Sacrifice, His Beloved Son with all the merits of His death and
Passion. He will not be able to refuse us anything."</span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Don't waste your earthly
sufferings</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">There is another means,
very powerful, to help the poor souls; the offering of our sufferings, our
penance, such as fasting, renunciations, etc, -- and of course involuntary
suffering like illness or mourning.</span></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, you have been invited many times to
suffer for the poor souls, in order to deliver them. Can you tell us what you
have experienced and undergone during these times?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">The first time, a soul asked me if I wouldn't mind
suffering for three hours in my body, for her, and that afterwards I could
resume working. I said to myself: "If it will all be over after three
hours, I could accept it." During these three hours, I had the impression
that they lasted three days, it was so painful. But at the end, I looked at my
watch and I saw that it had only lasted three hours. The soul told me that by
accepting that suffering with love for three hours, I had saved her twenty
years of Purgatory!</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Yes, but why did you suffer
for only three hours to avoid twenty years of Purgatory? What did your
sufferings have that was worth more?</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">It is because suffering on earth does not have the
same value. On earth, when we suffer; we can grow in love, we can gain merits,
which is not the case with the sufferings in Purgatory. In Purgatory, the
sufferings serve only to purify us from sin. On earth, we have all the graces.
We have the freedom to choose.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>All this is so encouraging because it gives an
extraordinary meaning to our suffering; the suffering which is offered,
voluntary or involuntary, even the smallest sacrifices we can make, suffering
or sickness, mourning, disappointment...if we live them with patience, if we
welcome them in humility, these sufferings can have an unheard-of power to help
souls. The best thing to do, Maria tells us, is to unite our sufferings to
those of Jesus, by placing them in the hands of Mary. She is the one who know
best how to use them, since often we ourselves do not know the most urgent
needs around us. All this, of course, Mary will give back to use at the hour of
our death. You see, these sufferings offered will be our most precious
treasures in the other world. We must remind each other of this and encourage
each other when we suffer.</b></span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And don't begrudge your
prayers</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Another very effective
means, Maria tells us, is the Stations of the Cross, because, by contemplating
the suffering of the Lord, we begin little by little to hate sin, and to desire
salvation for all people. And this inclination of the heart brings great relief
to the souls in Purgatory. The Stations of the Cross also move us to
repentance; we start repenting when faced with sin. Another point, very helpful
to the souls in Purgatory, is to say the rosary, all fifteen mysteries, for the
sake of the deceased. Through the rosary, many souls are delivered from
Purgatory each year; it must be said here as well that it is the Mother of God
herself who comes to Purgatory to deliver the souls. This is very beautiful, because
souls in Purgatory call Our Lady the "Mother of Mercy."</span></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">The souls also tell Maria that indulgences have an
inestimable value for their deliverance. It is sometimes cruel not to make use
of this treasure that the Church proposes for the profit of souls. The subject
of indulgences would be too long to explain here, but I can refer you to the
marvellous text written by Pope Paul VI in 1968 on the subject. You can ask
your parish priest for it, or simply ask at your usual religious bookstore.
Therefore, we can say that the great means of helping the souls in Purgatory is
prayer in general; all kinds of prayer. Here I would like to give you the
testimony of Hermann Cohen, a Jewish artist who converted to Catholicism in
1864 and greatly venerated the Eucharist. He left the world and entered a very
austere religious order; he frequently adored the Blessed Sacrament for which
he had a great veneration. During his adoration, he would beg the Lord to
convert his mother, whom he loved so much.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Well his mother died without having been
converted. so Hermann, sick with sorrow, prostrated himself before the Blessed
Sacrament, in deep grief, praying: "Lord, I owe you everything, it is
true. But what have I refused you? My youth, my hopes in the world, my well-being,
the joys of a family, a rest -- maybe well deserved -- all sacrificed as soon
as you called me. And you , Lord, Eternal Goodness, who promised to give back a
hundredfold, you have refused me the soul of my mother. My God, I succumb to
this martyrdom, I will stop my complaints." He cried his poor heart out.
Suddenly, a mysterious voice struck his ear: "Man of little faith! Your
mother is saved. Know that prayer is all-powerful in my presence. I gathered
all those you had addressed to me for your mother, and my Providence took
account of her in her last hour. At the moment she expired, I came to her; she
saw Me and cried: 'My Lord and my God'! Have courage, your mother has avoided
damnation and fervent supplication will soon deliver her soul from the bonds of
Purgatory.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">And we know that Father Hermann Cohen, soon
afterwards, learned through a second apparition that his mother had risen to
Heaven.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">I recommend strongly as well the prayers of St.
Bridget which are most recommended for the poor souls. Let me add something
important: the souls in Purgatory can no longer do anything for themselves;
they are totally helpless. If the living do not pray for them, they are totally
abandoned. Therefore, it is very important to realize the immense power, the
incredible power that each one of us has in his hands to relieve these souls
who suffer. We wouldn't think twice about helping a child who has fallen in
front of us from a tree and who had broken his bones. Of course, we would do
everything for him! So, in the same way, we should take great care of these
souls, who expect everything from us, attentive to the slightest offering,
hopeful for the least of our prayers, to relieve them from their pain. And it
might be the finest way to practice charity. I think, for example, of the
kindness of the Good Samaritan in the Gospel, towards the man left half-dead on
the roadside bleeding from his wounds. This man depended completely on the good
heart of the passer-by.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, why can one no longer gain merits in
Purgatory, when one can on earth?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Because at the moment of death, the time to earn
merits is over. For as long as we are living on earth, we can repair the evil
we have done. The souls in Purgatory envy us this opportunity. Even the angels
are jealous of us, for we have the possibility of growing for as long as we are
on earth. But often, the suffering in our lives leads us to rebellion and we
have great difficulty in accepting and living it. How can we live suffering so
that it bears fruit? Sufferings are the greatest proof of the love of God, and
if we offer them well they can win many souls. But how can we welcome suffering
as a gift and not as a punishment (as we often do), as a chastisement? We must
give everything to Our Lady. She is the one who knows best who needs such and
such an offering in order to be saved.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">On the subject of suffering, I would like to
relate an extraordinary testimony that Maria told us of. It was in 1954, and a
series of deadly avalanches had struck a village next to Maria's. Later, other
avalanches had struck, but they had been stopped, in a completely miraculous
way, before reaching the village, so that there was no damage. The souls
explained that in this village had died a woman who had been ill and was not
properly treated; she had suffered terribly for thirty years. And she had
offered all her suffering for the sake of her village. The souls explained to
Maria that it was thanks to the offering of this woman that the village had
been spared the avalanches. She had borne her sufferings with patience. Maria
tells us that if she had enjoyed good health, the village could not have been
saved. She adds that</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">sufferings borne with patience can save more souls than
prayer (but prayer helps us to bear our sufferings).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">We should not always consider suffering as a
punishment. It can be accepted as expiation not only for ourselves but above
all for others. Christ was innocence himself and He suffered the most for the
expiation of our sins. Only in Heaven will we know all that we have obtained by
suffering with patience in union with the sufferings of Christ.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Maria, do the souls in
Purgatory rebel when faced with their suffering?</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">No! They want to purify themselves; they
understand that it is necessary.</span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the point of death</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>What is the role of contrition or repentance at
the moment of death?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Contrition is very important. The sins are
forgiven, in any case, but there remain the consequences of sins. If one wishes
to receive a full indulgence at the moment of death -- that means going
straight to Heaven -- the soul has to be free from all attachment.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Here, I would like to share a very significant
testimony given by Maria. She was asked to find out about a woman that her
relations believed to be lost, because she had led an awful life. Well, she had
an accident, she fell from a train and this accident killed her. A soul told
Maria that this woman had been saved, saved from Hell, because at the moment of
death, she said to God: "You are right to take my life, because in this
way I will no longer be able to offend you." And this had erased all her
sins. This example is highly significant, for it shows that a single moment of
humility, of repentance at the moment of death, can save us. This doesn't mean
that she did not go to Purgatory, but she avoided Hell which she perhaps
deserved for her impiety.</b></span><br />
<b><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Maria, I would like to ask you: at the moment of
death, is there a time in which the soul still has the chance to turn towards
God, even after a sinful life, before entering into eternity -- a time, if you
like, between apparent death and real death?</span></b><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, yes, the Lord gives several minutes to each
one, in order to regret his sins and to decide: I accept or I do not accept to
go see God. There, we see a film of our lives.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">I knew a man who believed in the Church's teachings,
but not in eternal life. One day, he fell gravely ill, and slid into a coma. He
saw himself in a room with a board on which all his deeds were written, the
good and the bad. Then the board disappeared as well as the walls of the room,
and it was infinitely beautiful. Then he woke up from his coma and decided to
change his life.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>This is very much like the testimonies of
"near death experiences"; the experience of the supernatural light is
such that people can no longer live afterwards as they had lived before.</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, at the moment of death, does God reveal
himself with the same intensity to all souls?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Each one is given knowledge of his life and also
the suffering to come; but it is not the same for everyone. The intensity of
the Lord's revelation depends on each one's life.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Maria, does the devil have
permission to attack us at the moment of death?</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, but man also has the grace to resist him, to
push him away. So, if man does not want anything to do with him, the devil can
do nothing.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>That's good news! When
someone knows he is going to die soon, what is for him the best way to get
prepared?</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">To abandon himself totally to the Lord. Offer all
his sufferings. Be completely happy in God.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>And what attitude should one have before
someone who is going to die? What is the best that one can do for him?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Pray hard! Prepare him for death; one must speak
the truth.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Maria, what advice would you
give to anyone who wants to become a saint here on earth?</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Be very humble. We must not be occupied with
ourselves. Pride is evil's greatest trap.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, please tell us: can one ask the Lord to
do one's Purgatory on earth, in order not to have to do it after death?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes. I knew a priest and a young woman who were
both ill with tuberculosis in the hospital. The young woman said to the priest:
"Let's ask the Lord to be able to suffer on earth as much as necessary in
order to go straight to Heaven." The Priest replied that he himself didn't
dare to ask for this. Nearby was a religious Sister who had overheard the whole
conversation. The young woman died first, the priest died later; and he
appeared to the Sister, saying: "If only I had had the same trust as this
young woman, I too would have gone straight to Heaven."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Thank you, Maria, for this lovely testimony.</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">At this point, Maria asked for a five-minute
break, as she had to go and feed her chickens... But the minute she returned,
we continued with our questions.</span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Occupants of Purgatory</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Maria, are there different
degrees in Purgatory?</span></span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, there is a great difference of degree of
moral suffering. Each soul has a unique suffering, particular to it; there are
many degrees.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Do the poor souls know what is going to happen
in the world?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, not everything, but many things.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Do these souls tell you what is going to
happen, sometimes?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">They simply say that there is something in front
of the door; but they don't say what. They only say what is necessary for
people's conversion.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Maria, are the suffering in
Purgatory more painful than the most painful sufferings on earth?</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, but in a symbolic way. It hurts more in the
soul.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Yes, I guess it's very difficult to describe...
Does Jesus himself come to Purgatory?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">No soul has ever told me so. It is the Mother of
God who comes. Once I asked a poor soul if she could go to look for a soul I
had been asked to find out about. She replied: "No, it is the Mother of
Mercy who tells us about it." Also, the souls in Heaven do not come to
Purgatory. On the other hand, the angels are there: Saint Michael...and each
soul has its guardian angel with it.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Fantastic! The angels are with us...But what do
the angels do in Purgatory?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">They relieve suffering and provide comfort. The
souls can even see them.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Amazing! If this goes on, Maria, you're almost
going to make me want to go to Purgatory, with all these stories of angels!
Another question: You know, many people today believe in reincarnation. What do
the soul tell you concerning this subject?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">The souls say that God gives only one life.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>But some would say that just one life is not
enough to know God, and to have the time to be really converted, that it isn't
fair. What would you reply to them?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">All people have an interior faith (conscience);
even if they do not practice, they recognize God implicitly. Someone who does
not believe -- that God doesn't exist! Each soul has a conscience to recognize
good and evil, a conscience given by God, an inner knowledge -- in different
degrees, of course, but each one know how to discern good from evil. With this
conscience, each soul can become blessed.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>What happens to people who have committed
suicide? Have you ever been visited by these people?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Up to now, I have never encountered the case of a
suicide who was lost -- this doesn't mean, of course, that that doesn't exist
-- but often, the souls tell me that the most guilty were those around them,
when they were negligent or spread calumny.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>At this moment, I asked Maria
if the souls regretted having committed suicide. She answered yes. Often,
suicide is due to illness.</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">These souls do regret their act because, as they
see things in the light of God, they understand instantly all the graces that
were in store for them during the time remaining for them to live -- and they
do see this time which remained for them, sometimes months or years -- and they
also see all the souls they could have helped by offering the rest of their
lives to God. In the end, what hurts them most is to see the good that they
could have done but didn't, because they shortened their lives. But when the
cause is illness, the Lord takes this into account, of course.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, have you been visited by souls who
"self-destructed," by drugs, overdosing, for example?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, they are not lost. It all depends on the
cause of their drug-taking; but they must suffer in Purgatory.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>If I tell you, for example, that I suffer too
much in my body, in my heart, that it's too hard for me and I wish to die, what
can I do?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, this is very frequent. I would say: "My
God, I can offer this suffering to save souls"; this gives renewed faith
and courage. But no one says this any more nowadays. We can also say that in
doing this, the soul gains a great beatitude, a great happiness for Heaven. In
Heaven, there are thousands of different types of happiness, but each one is a
complete happiness; all desires are fulfilled. Each one know he has deserved no
more.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, I'd like to ask you: have people from
other religions -- for example, Jews -- come to visit you?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, they are happy. Anyone who lives his faith
well is happy. But it is through the Catholic faith that we gain the most for
Heaven.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Are there religions that
are bad for the soul?</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">No, but there are so many religions on earth! The
closest are the Orthodox and Protestants; there are many Protestants who say
the rosary; but the sects are very, very evil. Everything must be done to bring
people out of them.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Are there priests in Purgatory?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">(I see Maria raising her eyes to Heaven as if to
say: Alas!) Yes, there are many. They didn't promote respect for the Eucharist.
So faith overall suffers. They are often in Purgatory for having neglected
prayer -- which has diminished their faith. But there are also many who have
gone straight to Heaven!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>What would you say, then, to a priest who
really wants to live according to the Heart of God?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">I would advise him to pray much to the Holy Spirit
-- and say his rosary every day.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Maria, are there any children
in Purgatory?</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, but Purgatory for them is not very long or
painful, since they lack much discernment.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>I believe certain children have come to visit
you; you were telling me the story of this little child, the youngest one you
say, a little girl of four. But tell me: why was she in Purgatory?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Because she had received from her parents, as a
Christmas present, a doll. She had a twin sister who had also received a doll.
This little four-year-old girl had broken her doll; secretly, knowing that no
one was watching her, she went to put the broken doll in the place of her
sister's, swapping them, knowing full well in her little heart that she was
going to upset her sister -- and she knew very well too that it was a lie and
an injustice. Because of this, the poor girl had to do Purgatory.In fact,
children often have a more tender conscience than that of adults. It is
necessary above all with them to combat lying. They are very sensitive to
untruth.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, how can parents help to form the
conscience of their children?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Firstly through good example -- this is the most
important. Then through prayer. Parents must bless their children and instruct
them well in the things of God.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Very Important! Have you been
visited by souls who, on earth, practiced perversions? I am thinking, for
example, about the sexual domain.</strong><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, they are not lost, but they have much to
suffer to be purified. For example, homosexuality, this truly comes from the
Evil One.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>What advice would you give, then, to all those
people afflicted by homosexuality, with this tendency in them?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Pray a lot for the strength to turn away from it.
They should above all pray to the Archangel Michael; he is the great fighter
par excellence against the Evil One.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>What are the attitudes of the heart which can
lead us to losing our soul for good, I mean going to Hell?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">It is when the soul does not want to go towards
God, when it actually says: "I do not want."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Thank you, Maria, for making this clear.</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Here I would like to mention that on this
subject I questioned Vicka, one of the visionaries in Medjugorje, who also told
me that those who go to Hell -- and she has seen Hell -- are solely those who
decide to go there. It isn't God who puts someone in Hell -- on the contrary,
He is the Savior, He begs the souls to welcome His mercy. The sin against the
Holy Spirit that Jesus speaks of, which cannot be forgiven, is the absolute
refusal of mercy, and this in full awareness, full conscience. Pope John Paul
II explains this very well in his encyclical on mercy. Here too, we can do so
much with prayer for souls in danger of being lost.</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, would you happen to have a story
illustrating this?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">One day, I was on a train and in my compartment
there was a man who didn't stop speaking evil of the Church, of priests, even
of God. I said to him: "Listen, you don't have the right to say all that,
it's not good." He was furious at me. Afterwards, I arrived at my station,
I got down from the train, and said to God: "Lord, do not let this soul be
lost." Years later; the soul of this man came to visit me; he told me that
he had come very close to Hell, but he was saved simply by this prayer I had
said at that moment!</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, it's extraordinary to see that just one
thought, one impulse of the heart, a simple prayer for someone can prevent them
from falling into Hell. It is pride which leads to Hell. Hell is to stubbornly
say "NO" against God. Our prayers can elicit an act of humility in
the dying, a single instant of humility, however small, which can help them to
avoid Hell.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>But Maria, it is incredible, all the same! How
can one actually say "NO" to God at the moment of death, when one
sees him?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">For example, a man once told me that he did not
want to go to Heaven. Why? Because God accepts injustice. I said to him that it
was men, not God...He said: "I hope that I do not meet God after my death,
or I will kill him with an axe." He had a deep hatred of God. God grants
man free will; he wishes each one to have his free choice.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God gives to everyone during his earthly life, and
at the hour of his death, sufficient grace for conversion, even after a life
spent in darkness. If one asks for forgiveness, sincerely, of course one can be
saved.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Jesus said that it was difficult for a rich
person to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Have you seen such cases?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes! But if they do good works, works of charity,
if they practice love, they can get there, just like the poor.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, do you still have visits these days from
souls in Purgatory?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes, two or three times a week.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Really! What do you think of the practices of
spiritism, for example, calling up the spirits of the departed, Ouija-boards,
etc.?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">It is not good. It is always evil. It is the devil
who makes the table move. It is so important to say this again and again!
People really need to hear this because, nowadays, more than ever, these absurd
practices are increasing dangerously!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>What is the difference between what you are
living with the souls of the departed, and the practices of spiritism?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">We are not suppose to summon up the souls -- I
don't try to get them to come. In spiritism people try to call them forth.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">This distinction is quite clear, and we must take
it very seriously. If people were only to believe one thing I have said, I
would like it to be this: those who engage in spiritism (moving tables, and
other practices of that kind) think that they are summoning up the souls of the
dead. In reality, if there is some response to their call, it is always and
without exception Satan and his angels who are answering. People who practice
spiritism (diviners, witches, etc.) are doing something very dangerous for
themselves and for those who come to them for advice. They are up to their
necks in lies. It is forbidden, strictly forbidden, to call up the dead. As for
me, I have never done so, I do not do so, and I never will do so. When
something appears to me, God alone permits it.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Of course, Satan can imitate everything that comes
from God, and he does. He can imitate the voice and the appearance of the dead,
but every manifestation of any kind always comes from the Evil One. Do not
forget that Satan can even heal, but such healings never last.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Have you personally ever been tricked by false
apparitions? For example, by the devil disguising himself as a soul in
Purgatory to speak to you?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Yes. Once a soul came to see me and said to me:
"Do not accept the soul which is going to come after me, because it is
going to ask you for too much suffering, which you will not be able to bear;
you cannot do what it is going to ask." So, I was troubled because I
remembered what my parish priest had said to me, that I had to accept each soul
with generosity, and I was really troubled about whether or not to obey. So I
said to myself: "Maybe it's the demon who is before me and not a soul in
Purgatory; the demon in disguise?" I said to this soul: "If you are
the demon go away!" At once he gave out a loud scream and left. In fact,
the soul who came after him was a soul who had real need of my help; it was very
important for me to listen to this soul!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>When the devil appears, does holy water always
make him leave?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">It disturbs him very much and he flees at once.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, you are now very well known, especially
in Germany and Austria, but also throughout Europe, thanks to your talks and
your book. At the beginning, however you were very hidden. How did it happen
that, overnight, people recognized that your supernatural experience was
authentic?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">It was when the souls asked me to tell their
families to give back goods which had been acquired dishonestly. They saw that
what I said was true.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>At this point, Maria related several
testimonies, too long to quote here. Several times souls came to find her,
saying: "Go to my family in such and such a village -- which Maria did not
know -- "and tell my father, my son, my brother to give back a certain
property or amount of money which I acquired dishonestly. I will be delivered
from Purgatory when these goods are given back." Maria would have all the
details of the field, or exact amount of money, or the property concerned, and
the family would be staggered to discover that she knew all these details,
because sometimes even they didn't know that these goods had been acquired
dishonestly by their relative. Through this, Maria began to be very well known.</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Maria, is there official recognition by the
Church of this particular charism that you practice with regard to the souls in
Purgatory, and also with regard to those who are touched by your apostolate?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">My bishop told me that as long as there are no
theological errors, I should continue: he has okay'd it. My parish priest, who
is also my spiritual guide, confirms these things too.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>I would like to ask you a question that may be
indiscreet: you have done so much for the poor souls that surely, when you die,
in your turn, thousands of souls will be your escort into Heaven; I think that
you certainly won't have to pass through Purgatory!</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">I don't believe that I will go straight to Heaven
without time in Purgatory because I have had more light, more knowledge, and
therefore my faults are more serious. But all the same, I hope that the souls
will help me rise to Heaven!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Certainly! And Maria, do you enjoy this
charism? Or is it something burdensome and difficult for you, all these
requests from souls?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">No, I do not pay much attention to the difficulty,
for I know I can help them so much. I can help many souls and I am very happy
to do this.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Maria, I would like to thank
you also in the name of all readers for this beautiful testimony.</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><b>But
please permit me one last question: so that we might know you better, would you
be so good as to tell us a few words about your life?</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Well...from when I was little I wanted to enter a
convent, but Mother told me to wait until I was twenty. I did not wish to get
married. Mother had told me a good deal about the souls in Purgatory and,
already at school, these souls helped me a lot. So I said to myself that I had
to do everything for them.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">After school, I thought about entering a convent;
I entered the Sisters of the Heart of Jesus, but they told me that my health
was too poor to stay with them. As a child, I had had pneumonia and pleurisy.
The Superior had confirmed my religious vocation but advised me to enter an
easier order; to wait for some years. I wanted above all a cloistered order;
and right away!</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">But after two more attempts, the conclusion was
the same: my health was too poor. So I said to myself that entering a convent
wasn't God's will for me. I suffered mentally a great deal. I said to myself
that the Lord had not shown me what he wanted of me. Up to the moment he
entrusted me with this task for the souls in Purgatory, at the age of
twenty-five he'd made me wait eight years.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">At home, there were eight of us children. I worked
on our farm, starting at the age of fifteen; then I went to Germany as a
servant for a peasant family. Afterwards, I worked here at the farm in Sonntag.
From the age of twenty-five, when the souls began to come, I had much to suffer
for them -- Now I am much better physically. So, there you are.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>It was indeed a real pleasure for me to meet
Maria Simma, a woman whose life is one of complete devotion. Each second, each
hour of her life has a weight of eternity, not only for herself but for so many
souls, known or unknown, that she, in many different ways and with so much
love, has helped deliver from Purgatory and enjoy the eternal happiness of
Heaven.</b></span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">A Proposition to all</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Now, I have a proposition to make to each one of
you: we could make the decision that none of us will go to Purgatory! This is
really possible, we have everything in our hands to make it come true. I
remember the words of St. John of the Cross: he says that the Providence of God
always provides, in every life, the purification that is needed to allow us to
go straight to Heaven at the hour of death.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Providence puts enough difficulties in our lives,
trials, suffering, sickness, hardships -- so that all these purifications, if
we accept them, may be enough to bring us straight to Heaven.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Why doesn't this happen? Because we rebel, we do
not welcome with love, with gratitude, these gifts of trials in our lives, and
we sin by rebelling, by non-submission if you prefer. So, let us ask the Lord
for the grace to seize every opportunity so that on the day of our death He
sees us shining with purity and beauty. Of course, if we decide on this, I do
not say that the way will be easy, since -- let's remember this -- the Lord
never promised that the way would be easy but our way will be in peace, and it
will be a path of happiness: the Lord will be with us. Above all -- and this is
what I would like to stress here -- let us make the most of the time which
remains to us on earth, this time which is so precious, during which we are
still given the chance to grow in love. This means to grow towards the Glory to
come and the beauty which is destined for us. Each minute, we can still grow in
love, but the souls in Purgatory can no longer grow.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Even the angels envy us this power that we have to
grow each minute in love while we are on earth. Each little act of love we
offer to the Lord, each little sacrifice or fast, each little privation or
battle against our tendencies, our faults, each little forgiveness of our
enemy, all the things we can offer of this sort, will be later for us an ornament,
a jewel, a real treasure for eternity.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">So, let us seize every opportunity to be as
beautiful as God desires us to be already in His prescence. If we saw in its
full light the splendor of a pure soul, of a soul purified, then we would cry
for joy and wonder, because of its beauty! A human soul is something of great
splendor before God; this is why God desires us to be perfectly pure. It is
pure. No, it is through our repentance of our sins, and our humility. You see,
it's quite different! The saints are not "faultless" souls, but those
who get up again and again each time they fall, and ask forgiveness; it's very
different. So, let us make use of the wonderful means the Lord puts into our
hands to help the souls still waiting to possess God and who yearn because of
this delay, because of this splendid God they have already perceived and whom
they desire with all their hearts.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Also, we mustn't forget that the prayer of
children has an immense power over the heart of God. So, let's teach our
children to pray. I remember a little girl to whom I had spoken about the poor
souls. I said to her: "Now, you're going to pray for the souls of all the
members of your family and friends who are already dead. Would you like to go
before Jesus and ask him?" </span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">She went before Jesus, and five minutes later she
returned, and I asked her: "What did you ask the Lord?" </span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">She answered: "I asked the Lord to deliver
all the souls in Purgatory!" </span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">This answer struck me greatly and I realized I'd
been miserly in my request, but she had understood straight away what to ask
for. Children sense so much, they can obtain so much from the heart of God.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Also, Let's mention here retired people and all
those who have free time; if they went to Mass often, daily...What a treasure
of grace they would store up, not only for themselves but for their deceased
and for thoughts of souls! The value of one single Mass is immeasurable. If we
only realized!... What riches our ignorance, our indifference, or simply our
laziness lead us to waste!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Whereas we have the power in our hands to save our
brother, by becoming co-redeemer ourselves, together with Jesus our Savior and
our Redeemer!</span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Don't forget about
Indulgences</span></b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mother Church has some
wonderful treasures in store for us -- let's take a closer look at some of
them!</span></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"Through indulgences the faithful can obtain
the remission of temporal punishment resulting from sins for themselves and
also for the souls of Purgatory"</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">(Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1498)</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>What is an indulgence? Here is what the
Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say:</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">An indulgence is a remission before God of the
temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which
the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed
conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of
redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the
satisfactions of Christ and the saints.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"An indulgence is partial or plenary
according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to
sin." Indulgences may be applied to the living or the dead."(1471)</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Jesus gave to his disciples, and therefore to the
Church, the power to bind and to loose, and down through the centuries, in many
different ways, the Church has used this channel of the mercy of God towards
the living and the dead.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Everything concerning indulgences was revised by
Pope Paul VI; the results can be found in The Book of Indulgences, Rules and
Grants, published June 29, 1968 (Vatican Publishers).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"The aim pursued by ecclesiastical authority
in granting indulgences is not only that of helping the faithful to expiate the
punishment due to sin, but also that of urging them to perform works of piety,
penitence and charity--particularly those which lead to growth in faith and
which favor the common good."</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"And if the faithful offer indulgences in
suffrage for the dead, they cultivate charity in an excellent way and while
raising their minds to heaven they bring a wiser order into the things of this
world."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"Although indulgences are in fact free gifts,
nevertheless they are granted for the living as well as for the dead only on
determined conditions...the faithful have to love God, detest sin, place their
trust in the merits of Christ and believe firmly in the great assistance they
derive from the communion of saints."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">As a result of the reform, all distinctions of
day, month, and year have been abolished; the only distinction retained is that
between plenary and partial indulgence.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">We should also note the following:</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">NO ONE PERSON CAN GIVE THE INDULGENCE HE OBTAINS
TO ANOTHER PERSON WHO IS STILL LIVING.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">BOTH PLENARY AND PARTIAL INDULGENCES CAN ALWAYS BE
GIVEN FOR THE DEAD.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"The faithful who use with devotion an object
of piety (crucifix, cross, rosary, scapular or medal) properly blessed by any
priest, can acquire a partial indulgence. But if this object is blessed by the
Supreme Pontiff or any bishop, the faithful who use it devoutly can also
acquire a plenary indulgence on the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul,
provided they also make a profession of faith using any legitimate
formula."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In Medjugorje, on July 18, 1995, Our Lady said:</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"Dear children, today I call you to place
more blessed objects in your homes and call everyone to put some blessed object
on their person. Bless all objects, and thus Satan will attack you less because
you will have armor against him."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"To acquire a plenary indulgence it is
necessary to perform the work to which the indulgence is attached and to
fulfill three conditions: sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion and
prayer for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. It is further required that
all attachment to sin, even to venial sin, be absent."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">The condition of praying for the Supreme Pontiff's
intention is fully satisfied by reciting one "Our Father" and one
"Hail Mary." Nevertheless, the individual faithful are free to recite
any other prayer according to their own piety and devotion toward the Supreme
Pontiff.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>The new reform provides for three concessions:</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">1. Partial indulgence is granted to the faithful
who, in fulfilling their duties and in facing the adversities of life, raise
their souls to God with humble confidence, and add in their heart a pious
invocation.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">2. Partial indulgence is granted to the faithful
who, with a soul full of faith and mercy, give themselves of their goods to
their brothers in need.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">3. Partial indulgence is granted to the faithful
who, in a spirit of repentance, deprive themselves spontaneously of something.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>Plenary indulgence can be obtained on the
following occasions:</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">1. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for at least
one half-hour.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">2. Recitation of the entire rosary in church, as a
family or in community.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">3. Making the Stations of the Cross.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">4. Reading Holy Scripture for at least one
half-hour.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">5. A church visit between Noon of November 1 and
Midday of November 2, for the intention of the deceased.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">6. Visiting a cemetery, for the intention of the
deceased.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">7. Taking part in a First Holy Communion ceremony,
or the first Mass of a Priest, or the anniversary of 25, 50, or 60 years of
priesthood.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">8. Renewing one's baptismal promise during the
Easter Vigil.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">9. Adoration of the Cross during the Good Friday
liturgy.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">10. Papal benediction, even when received
listening to the radio or watching on television.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">By going to confession regularly, one can obtain
many plenary indulgences.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Only one plenary indulgence a day is permitted,
but one may obtain a number of partial indulgences on one day by reciting
certain prayers suggested by the Church. </span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Partial indulgences are obtained through concerted
acts of faith, hope, and love, in the midst of the trials of life and as we
carry out the duties of our daily lives. Indulgences are also obtained by acts
of charity towards our neighbor, voluntary fasting, and ejaculatory prayers or
spontaneous thought addressed to God, to the Blessed Mother, to the Holy
Family. The Book of Indulgences contains a list of suggest prayers; it is a
precious book to read. </span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Maria Simma Passed away in March of 2004. May her
soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Source:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #590f12;"><a href="http://www.holysoulscrusade.org/maria-simma1.html">Holy Souls Crusade</a></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><i>Our Lord dictated the following prayer to St. Gertrude the Great
to release 1,000 Souls from Purgatory each time it is said.</i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eternal Father, I offer Thee the most Precious Blood of Thy Divine
Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all
the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for all sinners everywhere, for sinners in the
universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There are more souls released from
Purgatory during the Consecration of the Mass than at any time. Christmas is
the day of the year when most souls are delivered; then feast days of Our Lord,
Our Lady and great saints. Souls receive much grace from prayers offered for
them on their birthdays, day of baptism, anniversary of death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The more we work for Poor Souls on earth the more others will pray
for us, the more merciful will Christ be with us when we're in Purgatory. Our
Lady asked that we pray very much for the poor souls; that we pray:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5 I believe in God <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 Hail Holy Queen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 Our Father <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 Hail Mary <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 Glory be to the Father <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1 Requiem (Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual
light shine upon them and may they rest in peace. Amen!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Our Lady said that if we pray the prayers, <i>"We'll
deliver so many souls, so many souls!"</i><br />
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<i>"The Holy wounds are the treasure of treasures for the souls in
Purgatory."</i><br />
2 Machabees 12:46<br />
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<i>"It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead,
that they may be loosed from sins."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Special Rosary for the Poor Souls in Purgatory</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Sorrowful Mysteries</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1) Lord, Jesus Christ, through Your bloody sweat of fear that You
shed on the Mount of Olives, we ask You to have Mercy on the Poor Souls in
Purgatory! Deliver them from their fear and pain and console them with the Cup
of Heavenly Comfort!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First Mystery</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> - The Agony in the Garden</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Lord, grant them eternal rest and let perpetual light shine upon them.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Fatima prayer.... O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us
from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need
of Your Mercy</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Second Mystery</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> - The Scourging at the Pillar</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
2) Lord, Jesus Christ, through Your painful Scourging which You tolerated so
patiently for us sinners, we ask You to have Mercy on the Poor Souls in
Purgatory! Retract from them the pain of Your Anger and give them Eternal
Relief.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lord, grant them eternal rest and let perpetual light shine upon
them. The Fatima prayer... </span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Third Mystery</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> - The Crowning of Thorns</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
3) Lord, Jesus Christ, through Your painful Crowning which You suffered so
patiently for us sinners, we ask You to have mercy on the Poor Souls in
Purgatory and give them the crown of Eternal Delight!<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lord, grant them eternal rest and let perpetual light shine upon
them. The Fatima prayer... </span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fourth Mystery</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> - The Carrying of the Cross</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
4) Lord, Jesus Christ, through Your painful Carrying of the Cross, which You
suffered so patiently for us sinners, we ask You to have Mercy on the Poor
Souls in Purgatory! Remove from them the heavy burden of suffering and lead
them into Eternal Peace!<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lord, grant them eternal rest and let perpetual light shine upon
them. The Fatima prayer. . </span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fifth Mystery</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> - Jesus Dies on the Cross</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
5) Lord, Jesus Christ, through Your painful Crucifixion, which You suffered so
patiently for us sinners, we ask You have Mercy on the Poor Souls in Purgatory!
Turn Your Holy Face toward them and let them today be in Paradise with You
!<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lord, grant them eternal rest and let perpetual light shine upon
them. TIre Fatima prayer. .</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b>After the fifth decade we pray</b>:<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lord, Jesus Christ, through your five Holy Wounds and through all
of Your Sacred Blood that You shed, we ask You to have Mercy on the Poor Souls
in Purgatory , and in particular for our parents, relatives, spiritual guides,
and benefactors! Heal their painful wounds and let them enjoy and participate
fully in Your Salvation. Amen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1. <b>Hail Holy Queen</b>:<br />
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve: to thee do we send up our
sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, O most gracious
Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile, show unto
us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin
Mary!<br />
Pray for us O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of
Christ. Let us pray:<br />
O God, Whose only begotten Son, by His life, death and resurrection, has
purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation. Grant, we besech Thee, that
meditating upon these Mysteries of the most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, we may imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise. Through
Christ Our Lord. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2. <b>Prayer to St. Michael</b>:<br />
Saint Michael the Archangel defend us in the hour of battle. Be our safeguard
against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God restrain him, we humbly
pray, and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast
Satan down to hell, and with him all the wicked spirits who wander through the
world for the ruination of souls. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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3. <b>The Memorare</b>:<br />
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that any one who
fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left
unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins,
my Mother! To thee I come; before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother
of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer
me. Amen.<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">O Jesus, You suffered and died that all mankind might be saved and
brought to eternal happiness. Hear our pleas for further mercy on the souls of:
my dear parents and grandparents, Jesus, have Mercy! </span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My brothers and sisters and other near relatives, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My Godparents and sponsors of Confirmation, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My spiritual and temporal benefactors, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My friends and neighbours, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">All for whom love or duty calls me to pray, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who have suffered disadvantages or harm through me, Jesus,
have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who are especially beloved by You, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those whose release is near at hand, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who desire most to be united with You, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who endure the greatest sufferings, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who are least remembered, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those whose release is most remote, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who are most deserving because of their services to the
Church, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The rich, who now are the most destitute, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The mighty, who now are powerless, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The once spiritually blind, who now see their folly, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The frivolous, who spent their time in idleness, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The poor who did not seek the treasures of heaven, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The tepid, who devoted little time to prayer, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The indolent, who neglected to perform good works, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those of' little faith, who neglected the frequent reception of
the Sacraments, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The habitual sinners, who owe their salvation to a miracle of
grace, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Parents who failed to watch over their children, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Superiors who were not solicitous for the salvation of those
entrusted to them, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who strove for worldly riches and pleasures, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The worldly-minded, who failed to use their wealth and talents in
the service of God, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who witnessed the death of others, but would not think of
their own, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who did not provide for the life hereafter, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those whose sentence is severe because of the great things
entrusted to them, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Popes, Kings and rulers, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Bishops and their counsellors, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My teachers and spiritual advisers, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Priests and religious of the Catholic Church, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The defenders of the holy faith, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who died on the battlefield, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who fought for their country, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who were buried in the sea, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who died of apoplexy, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who died of heart attacks, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who suffered and died of cancer or AIDS, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who died suddenly in accidents, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who died by their own hand through suicide, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who died without the last rites of the Church, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who shall die within the next twenty-four hours, Jesus, have
Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My own poor soul when I shall have to appear before Your judgment
seat, Jesus, have Mercy!</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light
shine upon them forever more with Your Saints because You are gracious. </span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Priest or Prayer Leader</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: The Lord be with you. </span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Response</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: And with your Spirit. </span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">May the prayer of your suppliant people, we beseech you, O Lord,
benefit the souls of your departed servants and handmaids, that You both
deliver them from all their sins and make them partakers of your redemption.
Amen.</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Recite The Rosary specifically for the Holy Souls<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pray the Stations of the Cross specifically for the Holy Souls<br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Invocations</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
<br />
Eternal Father I offer you the most Precious Blood of Jesus with all the Masses
being said this day all over the world for the Souls in Purgatory<br />
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon
them. May they rest in peace.<br />
May the Divine assistance remain always with us, and may the souls of the
faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.<br />
Eternal Father, by virtue of your generosity and love, I ask that you accept
all my actions and that you multiply their value in favour of every soul in
Purgatory. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.<br />
Jesus and Mary, I love You, save souls.<br />
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee.<br />
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, have mercy on the Poor Souls<br />
Jesus help me to help you save souls<br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prayer for the Holy Souls Crusade</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
<br />
St. Gertrude, I ask you to pray for me and for all the members of the Holy
Souls Crusade, for our families, relatives and friends and for the success of
the Holy Souls Crusade, this I ask through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.<br />
Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be.<br />
St. Gertrude is the Patron of the Holy Souls Crusade. Saint Gertrude pray for
us and for all poor souls.<br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prayer on passing a cemetary:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
<br />
May God and Mary bless you all.<br />
You were once as we are now, and we will be, one day , like you.<br />
You pray with us and we pray with you.<br />
May Mary pray with us both.<br />
And may He who suffered His Passion for you, grant you everlasting rest.<br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holy Water </span></b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(See the page on <b><a href="http://www.holysoulscrusade.org/sacramentals.html"><span style="color: #590f12;">Sacramentals</span></a></b>)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
<br />
Holy water is to remind us of the sacred blood of Christ, by which we are
cleansed from our sins and when we bless ourselves, remember the Holy Souls
i.e. they can benefit greatly by sprinkling Holy Water with the sign of the
cross and recite the prayer:<br />
"By this Holy Water and by thy precious blood, O Lord wash away the sins
of all my dear departed brothers and sisters in Purgatory, in the Name of the
Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen"<br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To you, O blessed Joseph (Ad te, beate Ioseph)</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
<br />
To you, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our tribulation, and having implored
the help of your most holy spouse, we confidently invoke your patronage also.
Through that charity which bound you to the immaculate Virgin Mother of God and
through the paternal love with which you embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly
beg you graciously to regard the inheritance which Jesus Christ has purchased
by his Blood, and with your power and strength to aid us in our necessities.<br />
O most watchful Guardian of the Holy Family, defend the chosen children of
Jesus Christ; O most loving father, ward off from us every contagion of error
and corrupting influence; O our most mighty protector, be propitious to us and
from heaven assist us in our struggle with the power of darkness; and, as once
you rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God's Holy Church
from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity; shield, too, each one of
us by your constant protection, so that, supported by your example and your
aid, we may be able to live piously, to die holily, and to obtain eternal
happiness in heaven. Amen.<br />
<i>partial indulgence</i>.<br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chaplet of the Holy Souls</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
<br />
This Chaplet can be prayed on a set of Rosary Beads.<br />
Begin with: The Creed, then 1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, 1 Glory Be for the
Pope’s intentions.<br />
<br />
<b>On Large Beads Pray</b>:<br />
O holy souls draw the fire of God’s Love into my soul to reveal Jesus crucified
in me, here on earth, rather than hereafter in Purgatory.<br />
<br />
<b>On Small Beads Pray</b>:<br />
Crucified Lord Jesus have mercy on the souls in Purgatory<br />
<br />
<b>End with</b>: Glory Be three times<br />
<br />
</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Daily Prayers for the Holy Souls</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b>Prayer for Sunday</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O
Lord God Almighty, I pray thee, by the Precious Blood which thy Divine Son
Jesus shed in the garden, deliver the Souls in Purgatory and especially
that soul amongst them all which is most destitute of spiritual aid; and
vouchsafe to bring it to thy glory, there to praise and bless thee
forever. Amen.Our Father …. Hail Mary …. Eternal rest give unto them,
O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O
Lord God Almighty, I pray thee, by the Precious Blood which thy Divine Son
Jesus shed in his cruel scourging, deliver the Souls in Purgatory, and
especially that soul amongst them all, which is nearest to its entrance into
thy glory; so it may forthwith begin to praise and bless thee forever.
AmenOur Father …. Hail Mary …. Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, and let
perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Prayer for Tuesday</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O
Lord God Almighty, I pray thee, by the Precious Blood which thy Divine Son
Jesus shed in his bitter crowning with thorns, deliver the Souls in
Purgatory, and in particular that one amongst them all, which would be the
last to depart out of those pains, that it may come to praise thee in thy glory
and bless thee forever. Amen.Our Father …. Hail Mary …. Eternal rest give
unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in
peace. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Prayer for Wednesday</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O
Lord God Almighty, I pray thee, by the Precious Blood which thy Divine Son
Jesus shed in the streets of Jerusalem, when he carried the Cross upon his
sacred shoulders, deliver the Souls in Purgatory, and especially that soul
which is richest in merits before thee, so that it may magnify thee and bless
thee forever. AmenOur Father …. Hail Mary …. Eternal rest give unto them, O
Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Prayer for Thursday</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O
Lord God Almighty, I pray thee, by the Precious Blood which thy Divine Son,
which he gave with his own hands upon the eve of his passion to his beloved
Apostles, and which he left to his whole Church to be a perpetual sacrifice,
deliver the Souls in Purgatory, and especially that one which was the most
devoted to this mystery of infinite love, that it may ever praise thee in thy
love, in eternal glory. Amen.Our Father …. Hail Mary …. Eternal rest give unto
them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in
peace. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Prayer for Friday</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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Lord God Almighty, I pray thee, by the Precious Blood which thy Divine
SonJesus, shed on this day upon the wood of the Cross, especially from his
most sacred hands and feet, deliver the Souls in Purgatory, and in particular
that soul for which I am most bound to pray; that no neglect of mine may
hinder it from praising thee in thy glory and blessing thee forever. Amen.Our
Father …. Hail Mary …. Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual
light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lord God Almighty, I beseech thee by The Precious Blood which gushed forth
from the side of thy Divine Son Jesus, in the sight and to the extreme pain
of His most Holy Mother, deliver the Souls in Purgatory, and especially that
one which was the most devoted to her; that it may soon attain unto thy
glory, There to praise thee, world without end. Amen.Our Father …. Hail Mary
…. Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon
them. May they rest in peace. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Prayer by Venerable John Henry Newman</b></span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">O GOD of the Spirits of all flesh, O Jesus, Lover of souls, we
recommend unto Thee the souls of all those Thy servants, who have departed with
the sign of faith and sleep the sleep of peace. We beseech Thee, O Lord and
Saviour, that, as in Thy mercy to them Thou became man, so now Thou would
hasten the time, and admit them to Thy presence above. Remember, O Lord, that
they are Thy creatures, not made by strange gods, but by Thee, the only Living
and True God; for there is no other God but Thou, and none that can equal Thy
works. Let their souls rejoice in Thy light, and impute not to them their
former iniquities, which they committed through the violence of passion, or the
corrupt habits of their fallen nature. For, although they have sinned, yet they
always firmly believed in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and before they
died, they reconciled themselves to Thee by true contrition and the Sacraments
of Thy Church.<br />
O Gracious Lord, we beseech Thee, remember not against them the sins of their
youth and their ignorances; but according to Thy great mercy, be mindful of
them in Thy heavenly glory. May the heavens be opened to them, and the Angels
rejoice with them. May the Archangel St Michael conduct them to Thee. May Thy
holy Angels come forth to meet them, and carry them to the city of the heavenly
Jerusalem. May St Peter, to whom Thou gave the keys of the kingdom of heaven,
receive them. May St Paul, the vessel of election, stand by them. May St John,
the beloved disciple, who had the revelation of the secrets of heaven,
intercede for them. May all the Holy Apostles, who received from Thee the power
of binding and loosing, pray for them. May all the Saints and elect of God, who
in this world suffered torments for Thy Name, befriend them; that, being freed
from the prison beneath, they may be admitted into the glories of that kingdom,
where with the Father and the Holy Ghost Thou lives and reigns one God, world
without end.<br />
Come to their assistance, all ye Saints of God; gain for them deliverance from
their place of punishment; meet them, all ye Angels; receive these holy souls,
and present them before the Lord. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord. And may
perpetual light shine on them.<br />
May they rest in peace. Amen.<br />
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Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal death in that awful day:<br />
When the heavens and the earth shall be moved.<br />
When You shall come to judge the world by fire.<br />
Dread and trembling have laid hold on me, and I fear exceedingly because of the
judgment and the wrath to come.<br />
When the heavens and the earth shall be shaken.<br />
On that day, that day of wrath, of sore distress and of all wretchedness, that
great and exceeding bitter day,<br />
When You shall come to judge the world by fire.<br />
Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord.<br />
And let perpetual light shine upon them.<br />
May they rest in peace. Amen.<br />
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O Mary, may the souls who suffer cruel torments in Purgatory, purified by the
ardour of the flames, be the object of your compassion!<br />
O Mary, open spring which cleanses our faults, reconciler of sinners, reach out
to those who pray you and implore your assistance in Purgatory!<br />
O Mary, intercede for our deceased. They await patiently the end of their
suffering when they will see you and taste eternal joys!<br />
O Mary, Model of the Just, guide of the faithful, salvation of those who hope
in you, help us to pray ardently for the Souls of the deceased and touch
the Heart of your Divine Son.<br />
O Mary, by the merits you have gained, give the dead true life, obtain mercy
for them, and be the way which leads to your Son Jesus and to eternal
rest. Amen.<br />
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</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Prayer for the Dead</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">O God, the creator and redeemer of all the Faithful, grant unto
the souls of thy departed servants full remission of all their sins, that
through the help of our pious supplications they may obtain that pardon which
they have always desired. Thou who livest and reignest world without
end. Amen.<br />
V. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord.<br />
R. And let perpetual light shine upon them.<br />
V. May they rest in peace. Amen.<br />
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</span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Deliver Them from Purgatory</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My Jesus, by the sorrows Thou didst suffer in Thine agony in the
Garden, in Thy scourging and crowning with thorns, on the way to Calvary,
in Thy crucifixion and death, have mercy on the souls in purgatory, and
especially on those that are most forsaken; do Thou deliver them from the
terrible torments they endure; call them and admit them to Thy most sweet
embrace in paradise. Amen.</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee;<br />
I entreat thee, who are so dear to God,<br />
and who are secure of never losing Him,<br />
to pray for me a miserable sinner,<br />
who is in danger of being damned,<br />
and of losing God forever.<br />
Amen. </span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-64406642745656456582013-11-27T21:03:00.002+08:002013-11-27T21:03:26.668+08:00HOW TO AVOID PURGATORY BY TRUST AND LOVE by St. Therese of Lisieux<span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: justify;"><i>The common teaching within the Church is that Purgatory can hardly be avoided. While still only a novice, the saint commented about this with one of the sisters, Sr. Maria Philomena, who believed in the near impossibility of going to Heaven without passing through Purgatory.</i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805652461916801857.post-23529258012626964462013-11-26T20:54:00.003+08:002013-11-26T21:14:13.723+08:00READ ME OR RUE IT: Purgatory Revealed<i style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Have pity on me, have pity on me at least you my friends for the hand of the Lord is heavy upon me.”</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> This is the touching prayer that the poor souls in Purgatory address their friends on Earth, begging, imploring their help, in accents of the deepest anguish. Alas! many are deaf to their prayers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It is incomprehensible how some Catholics, even those who are otherwise devout, shamefully neglect the souls in Purgatory. It would almost seem that they do not believe in Purgatory.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Days and weeks and months pass without their having a Mass said for the holy souls! Seldom too, do they hear Mass for them, seldom do they pray for them, seldom do they think of them! Whilst they are enjoying the fullness of health and happiness, busy with their work, engrossed with their amusements, the poor souls are suffering unutterable agonies on their beds of flame.</span><br />
<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1805652461916801857" name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #590f12; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: underline;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> What is the cause of this awful callousness? Ignorance, gross, inexplicable ignorance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> People do not realize what Purgatory is. They have no conception of its dreadful pains and they have no idea of the long years that souls are detained in these awful fires. As a result they take little, or no care to avoid Purgatory themselves, and worse still, they cruelly neglect the poor souls who are already there and who depend entirely on them for help.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It is a prison of fire in which nearly all souls are plunged after death and in which they suffer the most intense pain.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Here is what the great Doctors of the Church tell us of Purgatory:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> So grievous is their suffering that one minute in this awful fire seems like a century.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Thomas of Aquinas, the Prince of Theologians, says that the fire of Purgatory is equal in intensity of the fire of Hell, and that the slightest contact with it is more dreadful than all the possible sufferings of this Earth.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Augustine, the greatest of the Holy Doctors, teaches that to be purified of their faults prior to being admitted to Heaven, souls after death are subjected to a fire more penetrating, more dreadful than anything we can see, or feel, or conceive in this life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Though this fire is destined to cleanse and purify the souls”, adds the Holy Doctor, “still it is more acute than anything we can possibly endure on Earth.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Cyril of Alexandria does not hesitate to say: “that it would be preferable to suffer all the possible formats of Earth until Judgment day, than pass one day in Purgatory.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Another great Saint says:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Our fire, in comparison with the fire of Purgatory is a refreshing breeze.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The other Holy Writers speak in identical terms of this awful fire.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HOW IS IT THAT THE PAINS OF PURGATORY ARE SO SEVERE?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> 1st. The fire we see on Earth was made by the goodness of God for our comfort and well being. Still, when used as a torment, it is the most dreadful one we can imagine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> 2nd. The fire of Purgatory, on the contrary, was made by the justice of God to punish and purify us and is, therefore, incomparably more severe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> 3rd. Our fire, at most, burns this gross body of ours, made of clay, whereas the fire of Purgatory acts on the spiritual soul, which is unspeakably more sensitive to pain.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> 4th. The more intense our fire the more speedily it destroys its victim who, therefore, ceases to suffer, whereas the fire of Purgatory inflicts the keenest, most violent pain but never kills the soul nor lessens its sensibility.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> 5th. “Unsurpassingly severe is the fire of Purgatory. The pain of loss or separation from God, which the souls also suffer in Purgatory, is far more severe.” The soul separated from the body craves with all the intensity of its spiritual nature for God. It is consumed with an intense desire to fly to Him. Yet it is held back. No words can describe the anguish of this unsatisfied craving.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> What madness, therefore, it is for intelligent beings to neglect taking every possible precaution to avoid such a dreadful fate.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It is puerile to say that it can’t be so, that we cannot understand it, that it is better not to think, or speak of it. The fact remains always the same, whether we believe it or whether we don’t, that the pains of Purgatory are beyond everything we can imagine or conceive. These are the words of St. Augustine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CAN ALL THIS BE TRUE? </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The existence of Purgatory is so certain that no Catholic has ever entertained a doubt of it. It was taught from the earliest days of the Church and was accepted with undoubting faith wherever the Gospel was preached.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The doctrine is revealed in Holy Scripture, and has been handed down by Tradition, taught by the infallible Church and believed by the millions and millions of faithful of all times.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Yet, as we have remarked, the ideas of many are vague and superficial on this most important subject. They are like a person who closes his eyes and walks deliberately over the edge of a yawning precipice.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> They would do well to remember that the best means of lessening our term in Purgatory, or of avoiding it altogether, is to have clear ideas of it, to think well on it and to adopt the means God offers for avoiding it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Not to think of it is fatal. It is nothing else than preparing for themselves a fearfully long and rigorous Purgatory.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Polish Prince </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A Polish Prince, who, for some political reason, had been exiled from his native country, bought a beautiful castle and property in France.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Unfortunately he had lost the faith of his childhood and was at the time of our story engaged in writing a book against God and the existence of a future life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Strolling one evening in his garden he came on a poor woman weeping bitterly. He questioned her as to the cause of her grief.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Ah! Prince”, she replied, “ I am the wife, of Jean Marie, your former steward, who died two days ago. He was a good husband to me and a faithful servant to your Highness. His sickness was long and I spend all our savings on the doctors and now I have nothing left to get Masses said for his soul.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Prince, touched by her grief, said a few kind words and, though professing to no longer believe in a future life, gave her some gold coins to have Masses said for her husband’s soul.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Some time after, it was again evening, and the Prince was in his study working feverishly at his book.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> He heard a loud rap at the door and, without looking up, called out to the visitor to come in. The door slowly opened and a man entered and stood facing the Prince’s writing table.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> On glancing up, to the Prince’s amazement, he saw Jean Marie, his dead steward, looking at him with a sweet smile.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Prince”, he said, “ I come to thank you for the Masses you enabled my wife to have said for my soul. Thanks to the saving Blood of Christ, which was offered for me. I am now going to Heaven, but God has allowed me to come and thank you for your generous alms.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> He then added impressively: “Prince there is a God, a future life, a Heaven and a Hell.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Having said these words he disappeared.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Prince fell on his knees and poured forth a fervent “Credo”. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">St. Antoninus and his friend </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Here is a narrative of a different kind but not less instructive.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Antoninus, the illustrious Archbishop of Florence, relates that a pious gentleman and a great friend of the Dominican Convent in which the Saint resided, died. Many masses and suffrages were offered for his soul.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Saint was very much afflicted when, after the lapse of a long time, the soul of the poor gentleman appeared to him, suffering excruciating pains.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Oh my dear friend” exclaimed the Archbishop, “are you still in Purgatory, you who led such a pious and devout life?”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Yes, and I shall remain there still for a long time,” replied the poor sufferer, “for, when on Earth, I neglected to offer suffrages for the souls in Purgatory. Now God by a just judgment, has applied the suffrages which have been offered for me to those souls for whom I should have prayed.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “But God, too in his justice will give me all the merits of my good works when I enter Heaven, but first of all I have to expiate my grave neglect in regard to others.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> So true are the words of Our Lord: “By that measure with which you measure, it will be measured to you again.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Remember, you who read these lines, that the terrible fate of this pious gentleman will be the fate of all those who neglect to pray for and refuse to help the holy souls.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HOW LONG DO SOULS REMAIN IN PURGATORY</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The length of time souls are detained in Purgatory depends on:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">a) the number of their faults;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">b) on the malice and deliberation with which these have been committed;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">c) on the penance done, or not done, the satisfaction made, or not made for sins during life;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">d) Much, too, depend on the suffrages offered for them after death.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> What can be safely said is that the time souls spend in Purgatory, as a rule, is very much longer than people commonly imagine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> We will quote a few of the many instances which are recounted in the lives and revelations of the Saints.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Louis Bertrand’s father was an exemplary Christian, as we should naturally expect, being the father of so great a Saint. He had even wished to become a Carthusian monk until he learned that it was not God’s will for him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> When he died, after long years spend in the practice of every Christian virtue, his saintly son fully aware of the rigours of God’s justice, offered many Masses and poured forth the most fervent supplications for the souls he so dearly loved.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A vision of his father still in Purgatory forced him to intensify a hundred fold his suffrages. He added most severe penances and long fasts to his Masses and prayers. Yet eight whole years passed before he obtained the release of his father. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Malachy’s sister was detained in Purgatory for a very long time despite the masses, prayers and heroic mortifications the Saint offered for her!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It was related to a holy nun in Famphluna, who succeeded in releasing many Carmelite nuns from Purgatory that most of these had spent their terms of from thirty and sixty years!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Carmelite nuns in Purgatory for forty, fifty and sixty years! What will it be for those living amidst the temptations of the world and with all their hundreds of weaknesses?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Vincent Ferrer, after the death of his sister, prayed with incredible fervour for her soul and offered many masses for her release. She appeared to him at length and told him that, had it not been for his powerful intercession with God, she should have remained an interminable time in Purgatory.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In the Dominican Order, it is the rule to pray for the Master Generals by name on their anniversaries. Many of these have been dead several hundred years! They were men especially eminent for piety and learning. This rule would not be approved by the Church were it not necessary and prudent.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> We do not mean to imply that all souls are detained equally long periods in the expiatory fires. Many have committed lesser faults and have done more penance. Therefore their punishment will be much less severe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Still the instances we have quoted are very much to the point, for if these souls who enjoyed the intimacy, who saw the example and shared in the intercession of great saints during their lives and who, after death, were aided by their most efficacious suffrages, yet were detained for such a length of time in Purgatory what more will happen to us who enjoy none of these wonderful privileges?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why such lengthy expiation?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The reasons are not difficult to find.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> 1st. The malice of sin is very great. What appears to us as small faults are in reality serious offenses against the infinite goodness of God. It is enough to see how the saints wept over their faults.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> We are weak, it may be urged. That is true , but then God offers us abundant graces to strengthen our weakness, gives us light to see the gravity of our faults and the necessary force to conquer temptation. If we are still weak the fault is all our own. We do not use the light and strength He so generously offers us. We do not pray, we do not receive the sacraments, as we should.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> 2nd. An eminent Theologian wisely remarks that if souls are condemned to Hell because of one mortal sin for all eternity, it is not to be wondered at that other souls should be detained for long years in Purgatory who have committed countless deliberate venial sins, some of which are so grave that at the time of their commission the sinner scarcely knows if they are mortal or venial. They may have committed, too, many mortal sins for which they have had little sorrow and done little or no penance. The guilt has been remitted by absolution, but the pain due to the sins will have to be paid in Purgatory.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Lord tells us that we shall have to render an account for each and every idle word we say and that we may not leave our prison until we shall have paid the last farthing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The saints committed few and slight sins and still they grieved much and did severe penances. We commit many and grave sins and we grieve little and do little or no penance.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Venial sins</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It would be difficult to calculate the immense number of venial sins that any Catholic commits.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">a) There are an infinite number of faults of self love, selfishness, thoughts, words, and acts of sensuality in a hundred forms; faults of charity in thought, word and deed; laziness, vanity, jealously, tepidity and innumerable other faults.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> b) There are sins of omission which we pay so little heed to. We love God so little yet He has a thousand claims on our love. We treat Him with coldness, indifference and base ingratitude!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> He died for each one of us. Do we ever thank him as we ought? He remains day and night in the altar waiting for our visits, anxious to help us. how seldom we go to Him! He longs to come into our hearts in Holy Communion and we refuse Him entrance. He dies for us on the Altar every morning at Mass and gives oceans of graces to those who assist at the Great Sacrifice. Yet many are too lazy to go to this Calvary! What an abuse of grace!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">c) Our hearts are mean and hard, full of self love. We have happy homes, splendid food, warm clothing, an abundance of all good things. Many around us live in hunger and misery and we give them so little while we spend lavishly and needlessly on ourselves.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> d) Life is given us to serve God, to save our souls. Most Christians, however, are satisfied to give God five minutes of prayer in the morning, five minutes at night. The rest of the 24 hours is given to work, rest and pleasure. Ten minutes to God, to our immortal souls, to the great work we have to do, viz-a-viz, our salvation. Twenty three hours and fifty minutes to this transitory life! Is it fair to God?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It may be alleged that our work, our rest, our sufferings are done for God!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> They should be and then our merits would be, indeed, great. The truth is that many scarcely ever think of God during the day. The one engrossing object of their thoughts is self. They think and labour and rest and sleep to satisfy self. God gets a very little place in their day and in their minds. This is an outrage to His loving heart which is ever thinking of us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Now to come to mortal sins</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">e) Many Christians unfortunately commit mortal sins during their lives, but though they confess them they make no due satisfaction for them, as we have already said.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Venerable Bede appears to be of the opinion that those who pass a great part of their lives in the commission of grave sins and confess them on their death bed may be detained in Purgatory until even the last day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Gertrude in her revelations states that those who have committed many grave sins and have not done due penance, may not share in the ordinary suffrages of the Church for a very considerable time!</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Conclusion</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All those sins, mortal and venial, are accumulating for the 20, 30, 40, 60 years of our lives. Each and every one has to be atoned for after death.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Is it then any wonder that souls have to remain so long in Purgatory?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHY PRAY FOR THE POOR SOULS?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Lord’s great law is that we must love one another, genuinely and sincerely. The first great commandment is to love God with all our heart and soul. The second, or rather a part of the first, is to love our neighbor as ourselves. This is not a counsel or a mere wish of the Almighty. It is His great commandment, the very base and essence of His law. So true is it that He takes as done to Himself what we do for our neighbor, and refused to Him what we refuse to our neighbor.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">We read in the Gospel of St. Matthew 25:34-46 the words that Christ will address the just on Judgment day. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">34 Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> of the world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">35 For I was hungry, and you gave Me to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me to drink; I was a stranger,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">36 Naked and you covered Me; sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">37 Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see Thee hungry, and fed Thee; thirsty, and gave Thee drink?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">38 And when did we see Thee a stranger, and took Thee in; or naked, and covered Thee?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">39 Or when did we see Thee sick or in prison, and came to Thee?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">40. And the king (God) answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to Me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">41. Then He shall say to them also those that shall be on His Left hand: Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">42 For I was hungry, and you gave Me not to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me not to drink.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">43 I was a stranger, and you took Me not in; naked and you covered Me not; sick and in prison, and you did not visit Me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">44 Then they also shall answer Him saying: Lord when did we see Thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to Thee?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">45 Then He shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you as long as you did it not to one of these, neither did you do it to Me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Some Catholics seem to think that this law has fallen into abeyance in these days of self assertion and selfishness, when every one thinks only of himself and his personal aggrandizement. “It is useless to urge the law of love nowadays” they say “every one has to fend for himself, or go under.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> No such thing. God’s great law is still and will ever be in full force. It is more than ever necessary, more than ever our duty and more than ever for our own best interest. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We are bound to pray for the Holy Souls</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> We are always bound to love and help each other but the greater the need of our neighbor, the more stringent and the more urgent this obligation is. It is not a favour that we may do or leave undone. It is our duty, we must help each other.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It would be a monstrous crime for instance to refuse the poor and destitute the food necessary to keep them alive. It would be appalling to refuse and, to one in dire need, to pass by and not extend a hand to save a drowning man. Not only must we help others when it is easy and convenient but we must make every sacrifice, when need be, to help our brother in distress.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Now who can be in more urgent need of our charity than the souls in Purgatory? What hunger, or thirst, or dire sufferings on this Earth can compare to their dreadful torments? Neither the poor, nor the sick, nor the suffering, we see around us, have any such urgent need of our help. Yet we find many good hearted people who interest themselves in every other type of suffering, but alas! scarcely one who works for the Holy Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Who can have more claim on us? Among them too, there may be our mothers and fathers, our friends and nearest of kin.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God wishes us to help them</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In any event, they are God’s dearest friends. He longs to help them. He desires most earnestly to have them in Heaven. They can never again offend Him and they are destined to be with Him for all Eternity. True, God’s justice demands expiation of their sins, but by an amazing dispensation of His Providence He places in our hands the means of assisting them. He gives us the power to relieve and even release them. Nothing pleases Him more than when we help them. He is as grateful to us, as if we helped Himself.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our Lady wants us to help them</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Never did a Mother of this Earth love so tenderly a dying child, never did she strive so earnestly to soothe its pains, as Mary seeks to console her suffering children in Purgatory, to have them with her in Heaven. We give her unbounded joy each time we take a soul out of Purgatory. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Holy Souls will repay us a thousand times over</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> But what shall we say of the feelings of the Holy Souls themselves? It would be utterly impossible to describe their unbounded gratitude to those who help them! Filled with an immense desire to repay the favours done them, they pray for their benefactors with a fervour so great, so intense, so constant that God can refuse them nothing. St. Catherine of Bologna says: “I received many and very great favours from the Saints but still greater favours from the Holy Souls.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Then they are finally released from their pains and enjoy the beatitude of Heaven, far from forgetting their friends on earth, their gratitude knows no bounds. Prostrate before the Throne of God they never cease to pray for those who helped them. By their prayers they shield their friends from the dangers and protect them from the evils that threaten them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> They will never cease these prayers until they see their benefactors safely in Heaven and will be forever their dearest, sincerest and best friends.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> If Catholics only know what powerful protectors they secure by helping the Holy Souls they would not be so remiss in praying for them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Holy Souls will lessen our Purgatory</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Another great grace that they obtain for their helpers is a short and easy Purgatory, or possibly its complete remission.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Blessed John of Messias, the Dominican lay brother, had a wonderful devotion to the souls in Purgatory. He obtained by his prayers, (chiefly by the recitation of the Rosary), the liberation ofone million four hundred thousand souls!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In return they obtained for him the most abundant and extraordinary graces and came at the hour of his death to help and console him and accompany him to Heaven.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> This fact is so certain that it is inserted by the Church in the Bull of his Beatification.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The learned Cardinal Baronius, recounts a similar incident.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> He was himself called to assist a dying gentleman. Suddenly a host of blessed spirits appeared in the chamber of death, consoled the dying man and chased away the devils who sought by a last desperate effort to cause his ruin.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> When asked who they were, they answered that they were eight thousand souls whom he had released from Purgatory by his prayers and good works. They were sent by God, so they said, to take him to Heaven without his passing one moment n Purgatory.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Gertrude was fiercely tempted by the devil when she came to die. The evil spirit reserves a dangerous and subtle temptation for our last moments. As he could find no other ruse sufficiently clever with which to assail the Saint, he thought to disturb her beautiful peace of soul by suggesting that she would surely remain long years in the awful fires of Purgatory since, he reminded her, she had made over long ago all her suffrages to other souls. Our Blessed Lord, not content with sending His angels and the thousand of souls she had released, to assist her, came Himself in person to drive Satan away and comfort His dear Saint. He told her that in exchange for all she had done for the Holy Souls He would take her straight to Heaven and would multiply a hundred fold all her merits.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Blessed Henry Suso, of the Dominican Order, made a compact with a fellow religious to the effect that when one of the two died the survivor would offer two Masses each week for his soul and other prayers as well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It so happened that his companion died first and Blessed Henry commence immediately to offer the promised masses. These he continued to say for a long time. At last quite sure that the soul of his saintly friend had reached Heaven, he ceased offering the masses.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Great was his sorrow and consternation when the soul of the dead Brother appeared to him suffering intensely and chiding him for not celebrating the promised masses.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> He replied with deep regret that he had not continued the mass believing that his friend must be enjoying the Beatific Vision and added that he had never remembered him in prayer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “O dear Brother Henry please give me the masses, for it is the Precious Blood of Jesus that I most need”, cried out the suffering soul.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Blessed Henry began anew and, with redoubled fervour, offered masses and prayers for his friend until he received absolute certitude of his delivery.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Then it was his turn to receive graces and blessings of all kinds from the dear brother he had relieved, and very many times more than he could have expected.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HOW WE CAN HELP THE HOLY SOULS?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">I. The first means is by joining an association involved in helping the Holy Souls in Purgatory. The conditions are easy:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">a) Say a prayer everyday for the Holy Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">b) Offer all the good works, prayers, sufferings and indulgences, of one day in each week, preferably Sunday, for them. There is no necessity to do anything new or extraordinary but just offer what one is accustomed to do on that day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">c) Give alms to the Association;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">d) Get as many people as possible to join the Association.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Those who wish to join, can send their names, addresses and the alms to the “Prayer Warriors of the Holy Souls” c/o P.O. Box 220, Greenhills, Metro Manila, Philippines. Tel. Nos. 531-2157 or 531-0394 loc. 101; E-Mail: info@pwhs-mfi.org ; Website: www.pwhs-mfi.org ; Hotline Text No.: +63918-9290603</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">II. A second means of helping the Holy Souls is by having masses offered for them. This is certainly the most efficacious way of relieving them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">III. Those who cannot get many masses offered, owing to want of means, ought to attend, as many masses as possible for this intention.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A young man, who was earning a very modest salary, told the writer: “My wife died a few years ago. I got to have masses said for her. I could not possibly do more but attend 1000 for her dear soul.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">IV. The recital of the Rosary with its innumerable indulgences, the Way of the Cross, which is also richly indulgenced, are excellent means of helping the Holy Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Blessed John of Messias, as we saw, released from Purgatory more than a million souls, chiefly by reciting the Rosary and offering its innumerable indulgences for them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">V. Another easy and efficacious way is by the constant repetition of short indulgenced prayers. Many people have the custom of saying 500, or 1,000 times each day the little ejaculation “Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee” or the one word “Jesus”. These are most consoling devotions and bring oceans of graces to those who practice them and give immense relief to the Holy Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Those who say the ejaculations 1,000 times a day gain 300,000 days Indulgence! What a multitude of souls they can thus relieve! What will it not be at the end of a month, a year, 50 years? And if they do not say the ejaculations what an immense number of graces and favours they shall have lost. It is quite possible and even easy to say these ejaculations 1,000 times a day. But if one does not say them 1,000 times let him say them 500 or 200 times.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">VI. Still another powerful prayer is: “Eternal Father I offer you the most Precious Blood of Jesus with all the Masses being said this day all over the world for the Souls in Purgatory”.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Lord showed St. Gertrude a vast number of souls leaving Purgatory and going to Heaven as a result of this prayer which the Saint was accustomed to say frequently during the day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">VII. The Heroic Act, consists in offering to God in favour of the Souls in Purgatory all the works of satisfaction we practice during life and all the suffrages that will be offered for us after death. If God rewards so abundantly the most trifling alms given to a poor man in His name what an immense reward will He give to those who offer all their works of satisfaction in life and death for the Souls He loves so dearly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> This Act does not prevent priests from offering masses for the intentions they wish, or lay-people from praying for any person or other intentions they desire. We counsel every one to make this act.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alms help the Holy Souls</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Martin gave half of his cloak to a poor beggar to find afterwards that it was to Christ he had given it. Our Lord appeared to him and thanked him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Blessed Jordan of the Dominican Order could never refuse to give alms when it was asked in the name of God. One day he had forgotten his purse. A poor man implored for alms for the love of God. Rather than refuse him, Jordan, who was then a student, gave his most precious girdle which he prized dearly. Shortly after, he entered a church and found his girdle encircling the waist of Christ Crucified. He, too, had given his alms to Christ. We all give our alms to Christ. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Resolution</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">a) Let us give all the alms we can afford;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">b) Let us have said all the Masses in our power;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">c) Let us hear as many more as it is possible;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">d) Let us offer all our pains, and sufferings for the relief of Holy Souls</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">We shall thus deliver countless Souls from Purgatory, who will repay us ten thousand times over.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHAT THE HOLY SOULS DO FOR THOSE WHO HELP THEM </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> St. Alphonsus Liguori says that though the Holy Souls cannot merit for themselves, they can obtain for us great graces. They are not, formally speaking, intercessors as the Saints are but, through the sweet Providence of God, they can obtain for us astounding favours and deliver us from evils, sickness and dangers of every kind.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How a Girl found her Mother</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A poor servant girl in France once heard a sermon on the Holy Souls which made an indelible impression on her mind. She was deeply moved by the thought of the intense and unceasing sufferings the souls endure and horrified to see how cruelly they are neglected and forgotten by their friends on Earth.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Among other things the preacher stressed was, that many souls who are in reality near to their release - one Mass might suffice to set them free - are oftentimes long detained, it may be for years, just because the last needful suffrage has been withheld, or forgotten or neglected!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> With her simple faith, Jeanne Marie resolved that whatever it might cost, she would have a mass said for them, every month, especially for the soul nearest to Heaven. She earned little and it was sometimes difficult to keep her promise, but she never failed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> On one occasion she went to Paris with her mistress and there fell ill so that she was obliged to go to the hospital. Unfortunately, the illness proved to be a long one and her mistress had to return home, hoping that her maid would soon rejoin her. When at last the poor servant was able to leave the hospital, all she had left of her scanty earnings was one franc!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> What was she to do? Where to turn? Suddenly the thought flashed across her mind that she had not had her usual monthly mass offered for the Holy Souls. But she had only one franc! That was little enough to buy her food. Yet her confidence that the Holy Souls would not fail her triumphed. She made her way into a Church and asked a priest, just about to say mass, if he would offer it for the Holy Souls. He consented to do so, never dreaming that the modest alms offered was the only money the poor girl possessed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> At the conclusion of the Holy Sacrifice, our heroine left the Church. A wave of sadness clouded her face, she felt utterly bewildered.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A young gentleman, touched by her evident distress, asked her if she was in in trouble and if he could help her. She told her story briefly and ended by saying how much she desired work.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Somehow she felt consoled at the kind way in which the young man listened to what she said and fully recovered her confidence.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “I am delighted beyond measure” he said “to help you. I know a lady who is even now looking for a servant. Come with me” and so saying he led her to a house not far distant and bade her ring the bell, assuring her that she would find work.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In answer to her ring the lady of the house herself opened the door and inquired what she required. “Madam”, she said “I have been told that you are looking for a servant. I have no work and would be glad to get the place.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The lady was amazed and replied: “Who could have told you that I needed a servant. It was only a few minutes ago, that I needed a servant. It was only a few minutes ago, that I had to dismiss my maid and that at a moment’s notice. You did not meet her?”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “No, Madam, the person that informed me that you required a servant was a young gentleman.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Impossible, exclaimed the lady “ no young man, in fact no one at all, could have known that I needed a servant.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “But, Madam”, the girl answered excitedly “that is the young man who told me” pointing to a picture on the wall.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Why, child, this is my only son who has been dead for more than a year.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Dead or not”, asserted the girl with deep conviction in her voice, “it was he who told me to come to you and he even led me to the door. See the scar over his eye, I would know him anywhere.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Then followed the full story of how she had mass offered with her last franc for the Holy souls, especially for the one nearest to Heaven.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Convinced at last of the truth of what Jeanne Marie told her the lady received her with open arms. “ Come she said but not as my servant but as my dear daughter. You have sent my darling boy to Heaven. I have no doubt that it was he who brought you to me.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How a poor boy became a Bishop, a Cardinal, and a Saint</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Peter Damian lost both Father and Mother shortly after his birth. One of his brothers adopted him but treated him with unnatural harshness, forcing him to work hard and giving him poor food and scant clothing. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> One day, Peter found a silver piece which represented to him a small fortune. A friend told him that he could conscientiously use it for himself as the owner could not be found.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The only difficulty Peter had was to choose what it was he most needed, for he was in sore need of many things.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">While turning the matter over in his young mind it struck him that he could do a still better thing, i.e, have a mass said for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, especially for the souls of his dear parents. At the cost of a great sacrifice he put this thought into effect and had the Mass offered.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Holy Souls repaid his sacrifice most generously. From that day forward a complete change became noticeable in his fortunes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> His eldest brother called at the house where he lived and, horrified at the brutal hardships the little fellow was subjected to, arranged that he be handed over to his own care. He clad him and fed him as his own child, educated and cared for him most affectionately. Blessing followed blessing. Peter’s wonderful talents became known and he was rapidly promoted to the priesthood. Sometime after, he was raised to the episcopacy and finally created Cardinal. Miracles attested his great sanctity so that after death he was canonized and made Doctor of the Church.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> These wonderful graces came to him after that one mass said for the Holy Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">An Adventure in the Appenines</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A group of priests were called to Rome to attend to a business matter. They were bearers of important documents and a large sum of money was entrusted to them for the Holy Father. Aware that the Appenines, over which they had to pass, were infested by daring bandits, they chose a trusty driver. There was no tunnel through the mountains nor trains in those days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> They placed themselves under the protection of the Holy Souls and decided to say a De profundis every hour for them. Then right in the heart of the mountains, the driver gave the alarm and, at the same time, lashed the horses into a furious gallop. Looking around, the priests saw fierce bandits at each side of the road with fixed rifles ready to fire. They were amazed that no shot rang out. They were completely at the mercy of the bandits.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> After an hour’s headlong flight the driver stopped and looking at the priests said: “I cannot understand how we escaped. These desperadoes never spare anyone.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Fathers were convinced that they owed their safety to the Holy Souls; a fact that was afterwards confirmed beyond doubt.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> When their business was concluded in Rome one of their members was detained in the Eternal City, where he was appointed chaplain to a Prison. Not long after, one of the fiercest brigands in Italy was captured, condemned to death for a long series of murders and awaited execution in this prison. Anxious to gain his confidence, the Chaplain told him of several adventures he himself had and, finally, of his recent escape in the Appenines. The criminal manifested the greatest interest in the story. When it was ended, he exclaimed: “I was the leader of that band. We thought that you had money and we were determined to rob and murder you. An invisible force prevented each and all of us from firing as we assuredly would have done had we been able.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The chaplain then told him of how they had placed themselves under the protection of the Holy Souls and that they ascribed their deliverance to their protection.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The bandit found no difficulty in believing it; in fact it made his conversion easier. He died full of repentance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How Pius IX Cured a Bad Memory</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The venerable Pontiff Pius IX appointed a holy and prudent religious Bishop of a diocese. The priest alarmed at the responsibility put on him begged earnestly to be excused.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> His protests were in vain. The Holy Father knew his merits. Overcome with apprehension, the humble religious solicited an audience with the Pope, who received him most graciously. Once more he pleaded earnestly to be excused but the Pope was immovable.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> As a last recourse, Padre Tomaso told the Holy Father that he had a very bad memory which would naturally proved to be a grave impediment in the high office put on him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Pius IX answered with a smile: “Your diocese is very small in comparison with the Universal Church, which I carry on my shoulders. Your cares will be very light in comparison with mine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> I, too suffered from a grave defect of memory but I promised to say a fervent prayer daily for the Holy Souls, who, in return, have obtained for me an excellent memory. You do likewise, dear Father, and you will have cause to rejoice.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The More We Give, The More We Get</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A businessman in Boston joined the Association of the Holy Souls and gave a large sum of money annually that prayers and masses might be said for them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Director of the Association was surprised at the gentleman’s generosity for he knew that he was not a rich man. He asked kindly one day if the alms he so generously gave was his own offering, or, donations which he gathered from others.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “What I offer, dear father,” he said, “is my own offering. Be not alarmed. I am not a very rich man and you may think that I give more than I am able to do. It is not so, for far from losing by my charity the Holy Souls see to it that I gain considerably more than I give. They are second to none in generosity.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Printer of Cologne</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The celebrated printer of Cologne, William Freyssen, gives us the following account of how his child and wife were restored to health by the Holy Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> William Freyssen got the order to print a little work on Purgatory. Correcting the proofs, his attention was caught by the facts narrated in the book. He learned for the first time what wonders the Holy Souls can work for their friends.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Just at the time his son fell grievously ill and soon the case became desperate. Remembering that he had read about the power of the Holy Souls, Freyssen at once promised to spread, at his own expense, a hundred copies of the book which his firm was printing. To make the promise more solemn he went to the Church and there made his vow. At once, a sense of peace and confidence filled his soul. On his return home, the boy, who had been unable to swallow a drop of water, asked for food. Next day he was out of danger and soon completely cured.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> At once Freyssen ordered the books on Purgatory to be distributed, feeling sure that it was the best way to obtain help for the suffering souls, by interesting a hundred people in them. No one who knows what they suffer can refuse to pray for them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Time passed and a new sorrow fell to the family of the printer. This time his dear wife was stricken down and, despite every care grew worse daily. She lost the use of her mind and was almost completely paralyzed, so that the doctor gave up all hope.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The husband, remembering what the Holy Souls had done for his boy, again ran to the Church and promised to distribute 200 of the books on Purgatory, begging in exchange the urgent succor of the Holy Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In wonder he related, the mental aberration ceased, his wife’s mind became normal, she recovered the use of her limbs and tongue. In a short time she was perfectly restored to health.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Cure of a Cancer</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> D. Jana de Menezes thus tells of her cure. She was suffering severely from a cancerous growth in the leg and was plunged in grief.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Remembering what she had heard of the power of the Souls in Purgatory, she resolved to place all her confidence in them and had nine masses offered for them. She promised, moreover, to publish her cure if it were granted.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Gradually the swelling went down and the tumor and cancer disappeared.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">An Escape from Brigands</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Father Louis Manaci, zealous Missionary, had great devotion to the Souls in Purgatory. He found himself obliged to set out on a dangerous journey but confidently asked the Holy Souls to protect him in the dangers that he was likely to meet with. His road lay through a vast desert which he knew to be infested by brigands. Whilst plodding along, saying the Rosary for the Holy Souls, what was to his surprise, on looking around, to find himself surrounded as by a bodyguard of blessed spirits. Soon he discovered the reason. He had fallen into an ambuscade of brigands; but the Holy Souls at once surrounded him and drove off the miscreants who sought his life. The Holy Souls did not abandon him until he was well out of danger.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Return to Life</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Prior of Cirrontaines gives us his story:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A young man of my parish fell dangerously ill with a typhoid fever. His parents were overcome with grief and asked me to recommend him to the prayers of the members of the Association of the Holy Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It was Saturday. The boy was at death’s door. The doctors had recourse to every remedy. All in vain. They could think of nothing more, they were in despair.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> I was the only one who had hope. I knew the power of the Holy Souls, for I had already seen what they could do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">On Sunday, I begged the “Prayer Warriors of the Holy Souls” to pray fervently for our sick friend.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“HOW TO AVOID PURGATORY” by: E. D. M</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> This precious little booklet should be read by everyone desirous of a happy death and of avoiding the awful fires of Purgatory. The book is eminently practical and the means it suggests for avoiding Purgatory are easy and within the reach of everyone. Many souls, we dare say, go to Purgatory after death simply because they never heard how easy it is to avoid these dreadful fires, or at least to lessen notably the time and the pains which otherwise will be so long and so intense. This beautiful booklet “How to Avoid Purgatory”, makes this very clear. Dear reader, be sure to read it right <a href="http://healwithgrace.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-avoid-purgatory-by-fr-paul_14.html" style="color: #590f12; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">here</a>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOVENA OF PRAYER FOR THE POOR SOULS</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Nihil Obstat:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">MONS. JUSTINO C. ORTIZ </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Imprimatur:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">MSGR. JOSE N. JOVELLANOS Vicar General</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PREFACE</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">In the prayer and set of fundamental beliefs which we call: “Apostles Creed”, mention is made of the Communion of Saints. This means that the faithful on earth, the blessed in heaven, and the souls in purgatory are united in one Mystical Body with Christ as the Head. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Those in heaven compose the Church Triumphant; those on earth, the Church Militant; and those in purgatory, the Church Suffering. All of them make one family and share in the spiritual treasures of the Church. By prayers, they help one another.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The faithful on earth can relieve the sufferings of the souls in purgatory by prayers, fasting and other good works. The bible says (2 Maccabees 12:46): “It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be pardoned of their sins.” St. Augustine says: “Prayer is the key by which we open the gates of heaven to the suffering souls.” At every Mass, there is always a memento or remembrance of the faithful departed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The souls in purgatory suffer from a great longing to be united to God and be delivered from other great pains. They are yet deprived of the beatific Vision and therefore need the help of those who can. We should pray for the poor souls. God does not regard so much the length of the prayer as the love in the heart of the one who prays. This short novena has been composed along that line: Love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOVENA OF PRAYER FOR THE POOR SOULS</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FIRST DAY</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Act of Contrition</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Holy Spirit, come into my soul, that I may discover all the sins I have committed and grant me the grace to be sorry for them in all humility and contriteness of heart.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O my God, at the moment of my appearance before You this day, I sincerely confess before Your divine majesty and before the whole court of heaven, that I have offended You by thought, word and deed. By my sins I have contributed to the death of Jesus on the cross but You have forgiven me, washing my soul in the Blood of your Son and clothing it with the wedding garment of Your grace.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> I come, therefore, contrite and repentant, but with a heart overflowing with boundless gratitude, to your holy presence which You deigned to grant to a prodigal child like me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> What shall I render to You for all the good You have done to Me? Lord, I am sorry for all my sins. I promise not to sin again, for I love You. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Daily Prayer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O God, by whose mercy the souls of the faithful departed find rest, vouchsafe to grant them eternal rest in the hope that You will not deliver them into the hands of the enemy nor forget them forever, but that You command them to be taken up by Your holy angels and borne to their true home in paradise. We pray to You that they whom You already called from this world, having put their love and trust in You, may not undergo the pains of hell, but may come to the possession of eternal joys.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Be merciful, O Lord, to the faithful departed and deliver them from the deep pit and from the lion’s mouth so that hell may not swallow them up, and may they not fall into darkness, but may Your holy standard bearer, Michael, lead them into the holy light which You have promised to Abraham and his seed. We offer you, O Lord, sacrifices and prayers; do receive them in behalf of the souls for whom we are dedicating this novena; grant them to pass from death to life. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Prayer for the First Day</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O my God, deign to accept the offering of masses and prayers along with sacrifices that I will make in behalf of the Poor Souls, and grant that by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of all the saints in heaven, they may deserve the grace to be cleansed of all punishment for their sins so that they may be worthy to enjoy Your Beatific Vision in the company of angels.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> I humbly ask, dear Lord, to extend to me the favor of living a life attuned to Your holy will in the service of my fellowmen and for my own salvation so that in the end, I may have a good, happy death and enjoy eternal love in heaven.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Grant me also the grace to lead a holy life that I may fulfill my duties in the state of life which I have chosen, and I ask You in all humility the special favor which I now seek to obtain, if it be for the greater glory of God, the salvation of souls and the deliverance of the faithful departed from sufferings. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> (Now pray three Glory Be in thanksgiving for the grace of this novena and three Hail Mary for the Poor Souls. Add one Our Father, one Hail Mary and this invocation:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> And let Perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> May they rest in peace. Amen.)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE LITANY OF THE SAINTS</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">For the Poor Souls</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Lord, have mercy on us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Christ, have mercy on us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Lord, have mercy on us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Christ, hear us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Christ, graciously hear us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">God the Son, Redeemer of the World, have mercy on us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Holy, Mary,* Pray for the faithful departed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Holy Mother of God,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Holy Virgin of Virgins,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Michael,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Gabriel,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Raphael,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy angels and archangels,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy orders of blessed spirits,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. John the Baptist,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Joseph,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Peter.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Paul,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Andrew,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. John,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy Disciples of our Lord,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy Innocents,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Stephen,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Laurence,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Vincent,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye Holy Martyrs,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Sylvester,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Gregory,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Augustine,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy bishops and confessors,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy doctors,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Anthony,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Benedict,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Dominic,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Francis,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy priests and levites,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy monks and hermits,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Mary Magdalene,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Agatha,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Lucy,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Agnes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Cecilia,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">St. Anastacia,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy Virgins and Widows,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">All ye holy men and women, Saints of God.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Christ, hear us,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Christ, graciously hear us,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Lord, have mercy on us,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Christ, have mercy on us,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Lord, have mercy on us,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Pray for us, all ye saints of God.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Let Us Pray</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O God, the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful, grant to the souls of Your departed servants the remission of all their sins, that through our devout prayers, they may obtain the pardon which they have always desired. You Who grant forgiveness and desire thee salvation of mankind, we beseech in Your mercy to grant to them who have passed out of this life, the grace to partake of everlasting bliss by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of all Your saints. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Closing Prayer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Enter not, O Lord, into judgment with Your servants and handmaids, for in Your sight shall no man be justified, save You grant him remission of all his sins.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Therefore, let not, we beseech You, the sentence of judgment be pronounced nor let it fall heavily upon them whom the faithful prayer of Your Christian people commends to You, but rather by the help of Your grace, may they be found worthy to escape the judgment of condemnation, who in their lifetime were signed with the seal of the Blessed Trinity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Receive our prayers on behalf of the Poor Souls and grant that they may deserve the place of eternal rest, happiness and the glory of Your light. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Prayer for the Second Day </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Recite the prayers as of the First Day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O most merciful Lord, thou Who hast always shown mercy upon those who invoke Thy protection, I prostrate myself before Thee and humbly ask the liberation of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, especially of those for whom I offer this novena, through the merits of Thy Mother who stood by Thy Son during His agony on the Cross. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> May thy servants and handmaids suffering in the place of purgation, deserve to receive the indulgences for the remission of punishments due to their sins, so that in due time they may merit to enter Thy kingdom of justice and love. I also beg of Thee to grant my petition in this novena if it be for Thy greater glory and the salvation of souls. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Prayer for the Third Day</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Recite the prayers as of the First Day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O most powerful Lord, my God and Father, thou Who hast never refused to hear the supplications of Thy servants and handmaids, grant to the Holy Souls the strength to overcome their sufferings with the firm hope of seeing Thee face to face in heaven, through the merits of the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph who suffered much for our redemption in the days of Nazareth and unto the hour of Calvary.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> I humbly ask of Thee to remember those who are still in the state of cleansing especially those for whom I offer this novena, and Lord, please grant me the favor which I seek to obtain, if it be for the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Prayer for the Fourth Day</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Recite the prayers as of the First Day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O God most high, Thou whose mercy didst make saints who are now in Thy presence, I beseech Thee, through the intercession of St. Joachim and St. Anne, the parents of the Blessed Virgin, to look with merciful eyes on the Holy Souls who have found grace with Thee upon their death.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Be mindful, O Lord, of Thy servants and handmaids for whom I make this novena, so that they may be pardoned of their sins and cleansed of punishments. May they be reached by Thy hand of mercy in order that they may merit and also receive from Thy bounty the special favor which I ask, if it be for the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Prayer for the Fifth Day</b> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Recite the prayers as of the First Day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Infinite Lord. whose mercy knows no bounds, through the merits of the Archangel Michael and in remembrance of the sorrows borne with love by the Blessed Mother when the breast of Thy Son was pierced with a lance at Mt. Calvary and when her own heart was rent by the sword of man’s ingratitude, deign, I beseech Thee, to grant eternal glory to the suffering souls in purgatory.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Have mercy on poor sinners, O God, and extend Thy mantle of protection upon me so that my prayers for the Holy Souls will be granted. And I humbly beg Thee to grant my petition in this novena, if it be for Thy greater glory and the salvation of souls. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Prayer for the Sixth Day</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Recite the prayers as of the First Day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O most sweet Jesus, King of all hearts, extend Thy loving care and grant peace to the souls in purgatory so that, through the merits of the glorious St. Lawrence and the dolors of the Blessed Virgin who was filled with anguish at the sight of nails on the hands of Thy son, they may deserve to have a mansion in Thy kingdom of love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Deliver Thy servants and handmaids who are now going through a cleansing trail, out of the prison of purgatory and remember with love and mercy those for whom I make this novena. I pray Thee to hear my cry for favor which I seek to receive, if it be for Thy greater glory and the salvation of souls. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Prayer of the Seventh Day</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Recite the prayers as of the First Day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O most compassionate Lord, through the merits of Thy angels and in remembrance of the suffering of the Blessed Mother when she took Thy Son lifeless on her lap in Calvary, I beseech Thee to give ear to my petition in behalf of the Holy Souls, so that they may be taken up to their true home in heaven and come to the possession of eternal joys.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Eternal rest give unto Thy servants and handmaids who have passed out of this world, especially those dear to my heart, and let perpetual light shine upon them. Lord, come to my assistance and grant the special grace which I ask in this Novena, if it be for Thy greater glory and the salvation of souls. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Prayer for the Eight Day</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Recite the prayers as of the First Day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O most loving and the merciful Lord Jesus, through the merits of St. Francis of Assisi and the glorious St. Nicholas of Tolentino, I beseech Thee to absolve the souls of all the faithful departed from every bond of sin and may the Holy Souls, aided by the sufferings of Mary who saw the Body of her Son wrapped in the white shroud, be enabled to escape the judgment of Thy justice. And may thy servants and handmaids who departed from this life be led in the everlasting light and peace.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Grant them, O Lord, to pass from death to life, and may this novena which I make help them in their sufferings. I also ask Thee to grant my petition, if it be for Thy greater glory and the salvation of souls. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Prayer for the Ninth Day</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Recite the prayers as of the First Day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Divine Majesty, our Lord and Creator, be merciful to the faithful departed for whom I offer this novena, especially to those who on earth had done me favors, and may they attain everlasting rest, through the merits of the Virgin Mother who was filled with sorrow upon seeing her Son taken into the sepulcher. Grant that they may be purified by indulgences which I wish to obtain in their behalf so that they may receive forgiveness and unending peace.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Vouchsafe, O Lord, to release the Holy Souls from every bond of sin and may they rejoice with Thy saints forever. Grant also, I beg of Thee, the favor which I ask during this novena, if it be for Thy greater glory and the salvation of souls. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Other Intercessory Prayers for the Poor Souls</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Canticles of Zachary (Benedictus)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because He has visited and wrought the redemption of His people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">And He has raised up the horn of salvation to us, in the house of David, His servant.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, who are from the beginning.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To work mercy with our fathers, and remember His holy testament.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The oath which He swore to Abraham our father, that He would grant us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve Him without fear.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">In holiness and justice before Him all our days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest, for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To give the knowledge of salvation of His people, unto the remission of their sins.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the orient from on high has visited us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death; to direct our feet in the way of people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Eternal rest grant, O Lord, to the faithful departed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Let us pray. Grant O Lord, we beseech you, to Your servants and handmaids departed, mercy, that they who prayed that Your will might be done on earth as in heaven, may not receive punishment for their misdeeds but that even here below the true faith united them to the ranks of the faithful, so that in heaven by Your mercy they may have fellowship with the choirs of angels. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Libera Me</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal death in that awful day:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">When the heavens and the earth shall be moved.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">When You shall come to judge the world by fire.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Dread and trembling have laid hold on me, and I fear exceedingly because of the judgment and the wrath to come.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">When the heavens and the earth shall be shaken.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">On that day, that day of wrath, of sore distress and of all wretchedness, that great and exceeding bitter day,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">When You shall come to judge the world by fire.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Private Litany for the Poor Souls</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Leader: God almighty, Father of goodness and love, have mercy on the poor suffering souls and grant Your aid:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To my dear parents and ancestors,*Jesus, Mary, Joseph, have mercy on the Poor Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To my brothers and sisters and other relatives,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To my spiritual and temporal benefactors,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To my former friends and subjects,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To all for whom love or duty bids me pray,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who have suffered disadvantage or harm through me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who have offended me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who are especially beloved by You,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those whose release is near at hand,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who endure the greatest sufferings,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those whose release is most remote,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who are least remembered,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who are most deserving on account of their services to the Church,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the rich who are now the most destitute,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the mighty who are now lowly servants,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the blind who now see their folly,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the frivolous who spent their time in idleness,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the poor who did not seek the treasures of heaven,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the tepid who devoted little time to prayer,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the indolent who neglected to do good works,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those of little faith who neglected the reception of the sacraments,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the habitual sinners, who owe their salvation to a miracle of grace,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To parents who failed to watch over their children,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To superiors who were not solicitous for the salvation of those entrusted to them,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the souls who strove for nothing but riches and pleasures,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the worldly-minded who failed to use their wealth and talents in the service of God,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who witnessed the death of others but would not think of their own death,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who did not provide for the great journey to the next life,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those whose responsibility on earth was grave and severe,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To popes, kings and princes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To bishops and the clergy,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To teachers and spiritual advisers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who died in times of peace and of war,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who died within or outside the bosom of the Church,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To all believers and non-believers in Christ,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To my own poor soul when I shall appear before Your judgment seat,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> May all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">*Jesus, Mary, Joseph, have mercy on the Poor Souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HOLY WATER A Spiritual Treasure </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE DEVIL HATES IT</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Holy Water is a powerful spiritual armor in times of temptations. St. Teresa of Avila, whose temptations were as terrible as anyone’s, has left us these wise words of counsel:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “I have found by experience that there is nothing from which the devils fly more quickly than from Holy Water. They also fly from the Cross, but they return almost immediately. Certainly, the power of Holy Water must be great; for my part, my soul feels particular comfort in taking it, and very generally a refreshment and interior delight which I cannot express.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Long before St. Teresa of Avila, Holy Water was a sacramental in the Catholic Church. Water, which as a symbol of purification held a high place in biblical times, has retained its rich symbolism.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">EARLY USE</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> According to the Apostolic Constitutions, a document dating back well over 15 centuries, the use of Holy Water is attributed to a recommendation issued by St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The lives of the saints are packed with instances of heavenly protection and blessing secured through the reverent use of Holy Water. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">KNEW IT FOR A GOOD THING</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The saints knew, as we know by faith, that Holy Water is sanctified by the blessing of the Church, that it benefits the faithful by obtaining actual grace and the remission of temporal punishment; that it is a most effective aid in all conflicts with the powers of Hell.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A calm and reverent tracing of the Sign of the Cross with Holy Water upon oneself will often prove most helpful in subduing a temptation.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IN THE HOME</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Take an empty bottle to the parish church, fill it with Holy Water and bring it back home for the spiritual and temporal protection of the family. It should not be tucked away in a remote corner but be made available to all.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Holy Water is a sacramental that helps us to be sorry for our sin. Because of the blessing attached to it, the Holy Church strongly urges its use upon Her children; especially when dangers threaten such as fire, storms, sickness and other calamities. Every home should always have a supply of Holy Water in it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Holy Water has its great power and efficacy from the prayers of the Church which its Divine Founder always accepts with readiness. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THESE ARE SOME OF THE PETITIONS THE PRIEST MAKES TO GOD WHEN HE BLESSES WATER</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> May this, your creature, become an agent of divine grace in the service of your mysteries, to drive away evil spirits and dispel sickness, so that everything in the homes and other places where your faithful gather that are sprinkled with this water may be freed of all uncleanness and delivered from every harm (Let no breath of infection, no disease bearing air remain in these places). May the wiles of the lurking enemy prove of no avail. Let whatever might menace the safety and peace of those who live here be put to flight by the sprinkling of this water so that the health obtained by calling on your Holy Name may be made secure against all attack. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DISPOSES US TO BE SORRY FOR OUR SIN</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Because Holy Water is one of the Church’s sacramentals, it disposes us to be sorry for our sin. Keep your soul beautifully pure in God’ sight by making the Sign of the Cross reverently while saying:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“By this Holy Water and by Thy Precious Blood wash away all my sins, O Lord.” </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DISPELS THE DEVIL</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The devil hates Holy Water because of its power over him. He cannot long abide in a place or near a person that is often sprinkled with this blessed water.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In case after case of possession, both exorcist and onlookers are in complete agreement on this particular point: it is impossible to sprinkle Holy Water on any man or woman in a state of possession without deadly effect on the possessing spirit. “You are burning me, you are burning me!” he cries. There is thus an active power in the Holy Water which cancels out hidden demonic activities. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DO YOUR DEAR ONES LIVE AT A DISTANCE?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Holy Water, sprinkled with faith and piety, can move the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to bless your loved ones and protect them from all harm of soul and body. When worry and fear take possession of your heart, hasten to your Holy Water font, and give your dear ones the benefit of the Church’s prayers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">THE HOLY SOULS LONG FOR IT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Only in Purgatory can one understand ardently the poor souls longing for Holy Water. If we desire to make a host of intercessors for ourselves, let us try to realize now some of their yearnings, and never forget them at the Holy Water font.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">When sprinkling Holy Water for your loved ones, your friends, etc., do not forget the priests, especially those of your own parish, who have served the sacraments and holy masses. In gratitude, you should give them sprinkling of Holy Water several times daily and have Masses offered up for the repose of their souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Sprinkle a few drops of Holy Water and pray fervently: “O God, in Your Mercy multiply these drops into as many drops of Holy Water as there are souls in Purgatory, and allow them not to fear the pains of Purgatory, as long as the moisture of Holy Water is present.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHAT SOME PARENTS DO</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Some parents make it a regular routine to sprinkle their sleeping children with Holy Water. Others install Holy Water fonts in all the bedrooms and encourage all the members of the family to bless themselves, morning and night and during the day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Whenever the faithful make the Sign of the Cross devoutly with Holy Water and pray: “ In the Name of the Father, etc.” they gain a partial indulgence.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PRAYERS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> SAVE A SOUL FROM HELL IN THREE SECONDS </span></b> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Every time you pray the prayer below, you will prevent a person from going to eternal damnation. you can save sixty souls from Hell in the time it takes to boil a three-minute egg. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Incredible, but true. Such is the power of the names of Jesus and Mary. Such is the power of Love. Many souls go to Hell because no one prays for them. Here is the prayer:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“Jesus, Mary, I love you, save souls.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PRAYER OF ST. GERTRUDE, THE GREAT </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> A PRAYER WHICH WOULD RELEASE 1000 SOULS FROM PURGATORY EACH TIME IT IS PRAYED.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Our Lord told St. Gertrude, The Great, that the following prayer would release 1000 souls from Purgatory each time it is said. The prayer was later extended to include living sinners as well. The Approval and Recommendation below does NOT include this extension.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “ETERNAL FATHER, I OFFER THEE THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THY DIVINE SON, JESUS, IN UNION WITH THE MASSES SAID THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TODAY, FOR ALL THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY, FOR SINNERS EVERYWHERE, FOR SINNERS IN THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH, THOSE IN MY OWN HOME AND WITHIN MY FAMILY. AMEN.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PRAYER FOR ABORTED INFANTS </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Dear little infant Jesus, in honor of thy Holy Birth and through thy Holy Mother, I pray that the innocents who will this day be murdered may find refuge and eternal glory before the throne of our Heavenly Father.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">SPIRITUAL BAPTISM OF THE UNBORN: I believe in God... (Here you should recite the Apostles Creed, continuing with...) That all who were born dead this day may reach everlasting life through Jesus Christ, Mary, Joseph, John and (Saint of the Day) ___________________________________. I baptize you if God so wills (Sprinkle Holy Water to the north, south, east and west of your home or church) “IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Say one Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">THE POWERFUL IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY GREEN SCAPULAR BADGE AND PRAYER JUST GIVEN TO YOU WAS FIRST ENTRUSTED TO THE WORLD BY MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD, IN THE YEAR 1840. IT HAS BEEN BLESSED, AND MAY BE WORN, CARRIED IN A WALLET, OR PLACED IN THE ROOM OF ONE WHO IS IN NEED. THE POWERFUL PRAYER: “Immaculate Heart of Mary Pray for us now and at the hour of our death”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF THE BADGE SHOULD BE SAID DAILY FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS AS MANY HAVE RECEIVED COUNTLESS PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS AS WELL AS ANSWERS TO MANY PROBLEMS DEPENDING ON THE FAITH OF THE ONE WHO PRAYS.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Make the sign of the Cross over your affliction with your blessed Green Scapular Badge and say: DEAR BLESSED MOTHER, INTERCEDE FOR MY HEALING, AND FROM THIS HEALING, I RECEIVED THROUGH YOUR INTERCESSION, MAY ALL HEARTS LOVE YOUR PRECIOUS SON, JESUS CHRIST. AMEN.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CONSECRATION PRAYER TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY</span></b> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Mary, my Mother, I consecrate myself to Your IMMACULATE HEART. I am all Yours and all I have is Yours. Keep me under Your Mantle of Mercy. Protect me as your child, and lead my soul safely to Jesus in Heaven. Purify all that I give You and take it to JESUS, that He may use it to help Save the World and Souls. AMEN.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> “Immaculate Mary, Meek and Humble of Heart, make our Heart like unto the Heart of Jesus.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> As a sign of our Consecration to Her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, The Blessed Mother asked at Fatima that we: Pray the ROSARY daily; wear the BROWN SCAPULAR (we can send these both to you); and offer PENANCE and REPARATION for sin.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A WEEK OF PRAYERS FOR THE HOLY SOULS</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> SUNDAY:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Lord, God Almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Blood which Thy Divine Son Jesus shed in the garden, deliver the souls in purgatory and especially that soul amongst them all which is most destitute of spiritual aid; and vouchsafe to bring it to thy glory, there to praise and bless Thee forever. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Father, Hail Mary. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">MONDAY:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Lord, God Almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Blood which Thy Divine Son Jesus shed in His cruel scourging, deliver the souls in purgatory and especially that soul amongst them all which is nearest to its entrance into Thy glory; so that it may forthwith begin to praise and bless Thee forever. Amen. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Father, Hail Mary. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">TUESDAY:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Lord, God Almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Blood which Thy Divine Son Jesus shed in His bitter crowning with thorns, deliver the souls in purgatory, and in particular that one amongst them all which would be last to depart out of those pains, that it may not tarry so long a time before it comes to praise Thee in Thy glory and bless Thee forever. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Father, Hail Mary. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> WEDNESDAY:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Lord, God Almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Blood which Thy Divine Son Jesus shed in the streets of Jerusalem, when He carried the Cross upon His sacred shoulders, deliver the souls in purgatory, and especially that soul which is richest in merits in Your sight, so that having soon attained the high place in glory to which he is destined, he may praise You triumphantly and bless You forever. Amen. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Father, Hail Mary. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> THURSDAY:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Lord, God Almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Body and Blood of Thy Divine Son Jesus which He gave with His own hands upon the eve of His Passion to His beloved Apostles to be their meat and drink, and which He left to His whole Church to be a perpetual sacrifice and the life-giving food of His own faithful people, deliver the souls in purgatory, and especially that one which was most devoted to this mystery of infinite love, that it may with Thy Divine Son, and the Holy Spirit, ever praise Thee for Thy love therein in eternal glory. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Father, Hail Mary. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> FRIDAY:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Lord, God Almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Blood which thy Divine Son shed on this day upon the wood of the Cross, especially from His most sacred hands and feet, deliver the souls in purgatory, and in particular that soul for which I am most bound to pray, that no neglect of mine may hinder it from praising Thee in Thy glory and blessing Thee forever. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Father, Hail Mary. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. Ma y they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> SATURDAY:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Lord, God Almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Blood which gushed forth from the side of Thy Divine Son Jesus, in the sight and to the extreme pain of His most Holy Mother, deliver the souls in purgatory, and especially that one amongst them all which was the most devout to her that it praise Thee in her, and her in Thee, world without end. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Father, Hail Mary. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE HEROIC ACT</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a hero as “a mythological or legendary figure of great strength and ability; or a man admired for his achievements and qualities. “A hero goes above and beyond the call of duty to help others. It is someone who has made a sacrifice for the benefit of those who could not help themselves.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> There are heroes in the Catholic Church. They are the canonized saints. It is true, that all people who enter Heaven are saints, but the canonized saints have done something that is extraordinary and have been made role models for future generations of Christians.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> All of us can become heroes while on earth. It won’t necessarily lead to our canonization, but it would definitely help those in need and also bring us closer to Jesus. An opportunity has been given to us by the Church to help the souls in Purgatory. It is the Heroic Act of Charity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Through the Heroic Act, we give all of the Indulgences from our prayers, our sufferings, and our works of charity for the benefit of the souls in Purgatory. Also, the indulgences from the prayers offered after your death will go to the souls in Purgatory. Even though we give the holy souls the value of our indulgences acts, we still keep the blessings of what we have done which will bring us glory in Heaven.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Heroic Act of Charity has been approved by Popes Benedict XIII (1728), Pius VI (1788), and Pius XI (1852). The Sacred Congregation of Indulgences made a decree regarding it on December 18, 1885 and it was confirmed by Pope Leo XIII the next day:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The Heroic Act of Charity in favour of the souls detained in purgatory consists in this: that a member of the Church militant (Christifidelis), either using a set, offers to God for the souls in purgatory all the satisfactory works which he will perform during his lifetime, and also all the suffrages which may accrue to him after his death. Many Christians devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, acting on the advice of the Theatine Regular Cleric Father Gaspar Olider, of blessed memory, make it a practice to deposit the said merits and suffrages as it were into the hands of the Blessed Virgin that she may distribute these favours to the souls in Purgatory according to her own merciful pleasure.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Now, you might be thinking, “What a great idea, but what will happen to me when I die and I don’t have any indulgences to get me out of Purgatory? Will I suffer enormously there because of the Heroic Act?” This objection is not taking into account God’s love and mercy for us:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. “Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.” Matthew 16:24.25</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> We would be blessed by God for making this sacrifice. St. Gertrude the Great (who has revealed the prayer to release 1000 souls from Purgatory) made this heroic act. When she was close to death, the sins she had committed came to her mind along with the fact that she gave all of her indulgences to the souls in Purgatory. The devil tormented her by showing that she would suffer a great deal in Purgatory because she didn’t have anything to help her get out sooner. At that point, Jesus appeared to her and said, “Be assured, My daughter, your charity towards the departed will be no detriment to you. Know that the generous donation you have made of all your works to the holy souls has been singularly pleasing to Me; and to give you a proof thereof, I declare to you that all the pains you would have had to endure in the other life are now remitted; moreover, in recompense for your generous charity I will so enhance the value of the merits of your works as to give you a great increase of glory in Heaven.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In the past, there was a series of indulgences that benefited those who made the Heroic Act of Charity, but these indulgences have not been mentioned in the Enchiridion of Indulgences (Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary; June 29, 1968) so they may not be in effect at this time. This should not in any way prevent us from performing this Act. The goal here is to help the souls in Purgatory any way we can.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> If you would like to make the Heroic Act, you can in your own words offer the indulgences of all your prayers, your works of charity, and your sufferings for the benefit of the souls in Purgatory. This includes the benefits of all of the prayers said for you after death. If you have a problem with saying this in your own words, use the following prayer:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Lord Jesus, King of infinite Mercy, I give all of the Indulgences that would have been mine through my prayers, acts of charity, my own sufferings, and for the prayers said for me when I pass into eternity to free my brothers and sisters from the pains of Purgatory. Have mercy on them and bring them into glory in Your eternal presence in Heaven. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Praying for the dead is a spiritual work of mercy. With the Heroic Act of Charity, we can help the poor souls in a much more effective way. We highly recommend that all Catholics who love the souls in Purgatory do this act of mercy. (From Holy Souls online, Jul-Aug-Sept. 1999) </span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ROSARY OF THE HOLY WOUNDS</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> There are many uses of rosary beads. The greatest of course, is the Marian rosary, but there have been many other devotions that use these beads. One of them is the Rosary of the Holy Wounds. It has been given to us by Jesus, according to Sister Mary Martha Chambon (1841-1907) . She was a nun at the Monastery of the Visitation of Chambery in France. The cause for her canonization as a saint began in 1937. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Jesus made many promises to those who would honor His Holy Wounds by praying this rosary. Some of them are: </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">• At each word that you pronounce of the Chaplet of the Holy Wounds, I allow a drop of My Blood to fall upon the soul of a sinner.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">• I will grant all that is asked of Me through the invocation of My Holy Wounds. You will obtain everything, because it is through the merit of My Blood, which is of infinite price. With My Wound and My Divine Heart, everything can be obtained.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">• My Wounds will repair yours, My Wounds will cover all your faults. Those who honor them will have a true knowledge of Jesus Christ. In meditation on them, you will always find a new love. My Wounds will cover all your sins.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">• When you have some trouble , something to suffer, quickly place it in My Wounds, and the pain will be alleviated.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">• There will be no death for the soul that expires in My Holy Wounds; they give true life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">• Those who pray with humility and who meditate on My Passion will one day participate in the glory of My Divine Wounds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">• The soul who during life has honored the Wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ and has offered them to the Eternal Father for the Souls in Purgatory, will be accompanied at the moment of death by the Holy Virgin and the angels; and Our Lord on the Cross, all brilliant in glory, will receive her and crown her.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our Lord also made a promise to St. Gertrude for those who honor His Holy Wounds. She had a vision of Jesus after finishing her prayers for His wounds at one time. There were golden roses on top of His wounds. Jesus then said, "Behold, I will appear to you in this radiant form at the hour of your death, and I will cover all your sins, and adorn you with a glory like that with which you have adorned My Wounds by your salutations. All who do so shall receive the like favor.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The method of praying this rosary is as follows. You begin with:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Jesus, Divine Redeemer, be merciful to us and to the whole world. Amen. Strong God, Holy God, Immortal God, have mercy on us and the world. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Grace and Mercy, O my Jesus. During present dangers cover us with Your Precious Blood. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Eternal Father, grant us mercy through the Blood of Jesus Christ, Your only Son. Grant us mercy, we beseech You. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> On the “Our Father” beads (the larger ones) you pray, Eternal Father, I offer you the Wounds of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, to heal the wounds of our souls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> And the smaller “Hail Mary” beads you pray:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> My Jesus, pardon and mercy, through the merits of Your Holy Wounds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> At the very end of the rosary, at the “Hail, Holy Queen” part, conclude by praying the following three times:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Eternal Father, I offer You the Wounds of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, to heal the wounds of our souls. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Source: Association of the Holy Souls Online.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOVENA FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY </span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">OPENING PRAYER</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Please kneel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Eternal Father. I offer You the Most Precious Blood of Your Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory and for sinners everywhere - for sinners in the Universal church, for those in my own home and for those within my family. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Most loving Jesus, I humbly beseech You to offer to Your Eternal Father, on behalf of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, Your Most Precious Blood, which poured forth from the Sacred Wounds of Your adorable body, together with Your agony and death.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> O Sorrowful Virgin Mary, do present to the Heavenly Father, together with the sorrowful passion of Your Son, Your own sighs and tears and all the sorrows You did suffer in communion with Him, in order that refreshment may be granted to the souls now suffering in the fiery torments of purgatory, so that, being delivered from that painful prison, they may be clothed with glory in Heaven, there to sing the mercies of God for ever and ever. Amen. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SCRIPTURAL READING AND MEDITATION FOR THE DAY</span></b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> NOVENA PRAYER</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Merciful Father, in union with the Saints in heaven, we beg You to have mercy on the souls in purgatory. Be mindful of Your eternal love for them and show them Your mercy because of the boundless merits of Your Beloved Son. Be pleased to free them from pain and sorrow that they may soon enjoy eternal peace and happiness.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Loving Redeemer, Jesus Christ, You are the King of kings in the land of bliss. We beg You, in Your mercy, hear our prayer and set free the holy souls in purgatory. Lead them from the prison of darkness to the light and freedom of the children of God in the Kingdom of Your glory. Redeem them with Your Precious Blood and save them from eternal death.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Holy Spirit, Lord of Light, enkindle in us the flames of charity that we might be able to offer up our prayers and sacrifices for the suffering souls in purgatory. We wish to apply the merits of this devotion to the entire Church Suffering, but especially to our departed loved ones. Hear our prayers that we may be united with them in the kingdom of Your glory, Father, Son and Holy Spirit forever. Amen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LITANY OF THE HOLY SOULS</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Almighty God, Father of goodness and love, have mercy on the poor suffering souls and grant them Your aid:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To our parents and ancestors;* Lord have mercy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To our brothers and sisters and relatives;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To our spiritual and temporal benefactors;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To our former friends and subordinates;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To all for whom love or duty bids us to pray;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who suffered disadvantage or harm through us;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who have offended us;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To all those who are especially beloved by You;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those whose release is at hand;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who desire most to be united with You;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who endure the greatest suffering;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those whose release is most remote;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who are least remembered;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who are most deserving on account of their services to the Church;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the rich, who are now the most destitute;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the mighty, who are now as lowly servants;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the blind, who now see their folly;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the frivolous, who spent their time in idleness;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the poor, who did not seek the treasures of Heaven;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the tepid, who devoted little time in prayer;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the indolent, who were negligent in performing good works;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those of little faith, who neglected the frequent reception of sacraments;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the habitual sinners, who owe their salvation to a miracle of grace;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To parents, who failed to watch over their children;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To superiors, who were not solicitous for the salvation of those entrusted to them;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the souls of those who strove for hardly anything but riches and pleasures;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the worldly minded, who failed to use their wealth and talents in the service of God;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who witnessed the death of others, but would not think of their own;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who did not provide for the great journey beyond and the days of tribulation;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those whose judgment is so severe because of the great things entrusted to them;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the popes, rulers, kings and princes;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the bishops and their counselors;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To teachers and advisors;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the deceased priests of this diocese;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the priest and religious of the whole Church;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To the defenders of the Holy Faith;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who died in the battlefield;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who are buried at sea;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who died suddenly;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who died without the last rites of the Church;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To those who will die within the next twenty-four hours;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">To my own poor soul when I shall have to appear before Your judgment seat;*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">L: Eternal rest grant unto all those souls of the faithful departed, Lord</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">A: And let perpetual light shine upon them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">L: May they rest in peace</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">A: Amen</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SCRIPTURAL READINGS / MEDITATIONS</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">First Day</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> "If he had not believed that the dead would be raised, it would have been foolish and useless to pray for them. In his firm and devout conviction that all of God’s faithful people would receive a wonderful reward, Judas (Maccabaeus) made provision for a sin offering to set free from their sin those who had died." 2 Maccabees 12:44-45 </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Sin is the one thing that holds back the progress of men and women. True progress is man’s ascent to God. Only sin blocks this path.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Vice and crime throw away human being to animal levels when they should be mounting towards the Angels. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Death in mortal sin means the complete failure that is hell. It flings man, who is destined for eternal happiness, into eternal loss and pain.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Death in venial sin or with the punishment due to sin still on the souls, means a half in the progress toward heaven. The poor souls - poor indeed in his eagerness to reach God and the painful and tedious delay that keeps him from God - must linger in this prison house.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> This is purgatory, a place of anxious, almost impatient waiting.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Second Day</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> "Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the law. So let us thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Cor. 15:55-57</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Nothing else is humanly harder to bear than painful waiting. All the souls in Purgatory are sure one day to reach Heaven. They know how wonderful heaven is and how desirable God is. But they cannot follow the violent impulse which drives them towards their happiness. They must hunger for God and still be withheld from the possession of Him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In hell, there is only bleak and hopeless despair. In purgatory, there is hope and certainty, love and eagerness - and long period of waiting, waiting, waiting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> There is suffering, too, in purgatory, the suffering that washes away in flame the stains of guilt and cleanses as with fire the souls will eventually enter into the presence of the all-holy God. But the real pain in purgatory is that of awful eagerness for God, who is just out of reach, and that longing to go home to heaven, which is almost seen but as yet unattainable.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Nothing defiled can ever enter heaven. So purgatory is the place where defilement is removed, where the souls that are destined for glory are prepared by punishment and tedious delay for their homecoming with God.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Third Day</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> "If Christ lives in you, then although the body be a dead thing in virtue of our guilt, the spirit is a living thing, by virtue of our justification. And if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead will give life to your perishable bodies too, for the sake of his Spirit who dwells in you." Rom 8:10-11</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> This life on earth is a time of merit. When through the Church’s indulgences we avail ourselves of the merits of Christ and of the Saints, we can wipe away the guilt of forgiven sins and eliminate the punishment due to venial sins, as we can also do through penance and deeds of charity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> But once the souls enter purgatory, the time for that soul to gain merit has ended.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> When we suffer on earth, we can offer our sufferings to God, increasing thereby our future happiness in heaven and canceling out the pains of purgatory. When a soul suffers in purgatory, he slowly and tediously cancels the debts of sin but gains no further merit for heaven. There are no indulgences in purgatory, nor fresh use of the merits of Christ, of His Mother or of the Saints.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Thanks, however, to our union in the Mystical Body of Christ, thanks to the communion of Saints, we can gain merit for the suffering souls. We can win indulgences and apply them to their period of waiting. We can cut their sufferings and speed their entry into heaven by whatever good we offer for them on earth.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fourth Day</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> "If we have died with Christ, we have faith to believe that we shall share his life. We know that Christ, now he has risen from the dead, cannot die any more; death has no more power over him; the death he died was a death, once for all, to sin; the life he now lives is a life that looks towards God. And you, too, must think of yourselves as dead to sin, and alive with a life that looks towards God, through Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom 6:8-11</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Swiftly the memory even of the dear departed seem to pass from human minds. Memory is like tears in a coffin, swiftly evaporated, quickly dried.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The rush of the days fills the minds and hands of the living. The press of old associations and the establishment of new friends help supplant and elbow into dusty corners of our minds the friends now hidden in God’s penitentiary. But these prisoners do not forget us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In the slow, painful dragging of the days, they have time to remember. They are so hungry for God that they have little heart for new companions. They are made sensitive, as pain always makes us sensitive, to memory, to neglect, to hope for deliverance, to the knowledge that those who once cried aloud their love have swiftly forgotten.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> With gratitude, they do think of those who remember them. With sorrow, they think of those who have swiftly dropped them. They pray to God, who loves them even in their exile, the thoughtful and the mindful. They beg that those who have pushed them away for the near and the living will drop in their prison house a thought, a prayer, a good deed in ransom.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fifth Day</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> "Remember the Good News that I care; ‘Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, sprung from the race of David.’ Here is a saying that you can rely on: If you have died with him, then we shall live with him. If we hold firm, then we shall reign with him. If we disown him, then he will disown us. We may be unfaithful, but he is always faithful, for he cannot disown his own self." 2 Tim 2:8,11-13</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Those in purgatory are friends of God. These souls are saved. Their crowns are awaiting them, their thrones prepared, their mansions ready.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> God loves them deeply, as He loves all those faithful sons and daughters who fought the good fight. Their prayers for others come straight to His throne. They can no longer pray for themselves; their time of merit is over. They can pray and they do pray for those on earth whom they love. That loving mother in purgatory is interceding for her children. That devoted father is now more devoted. Those friends have not forgotten the value of their friendship. Those relatives are bound to us with ties much closer than blood.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Most of all, the holy souls pray for their benefactors. Our slight remembering of them wins for us a great measure of intercession from them. We pray thoughtlessly; they pray with the intensity of souls who are coming ever closer to God. We ask for deliverance for them; they beg God for a thousand blessings for us.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sixth Day</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> "Christ himself, innocent though he was, died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body, he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life. He has entered heaven and is at God’s right hand, now that he has made the angels and Dominations and Power his subjects." 1Pet 3:18,22</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Our souls hunger for God with far more intensity than a body hungers for food. Here in this world we are distracted by the pleasure of life about us. In purgatory, there are no distractions. Their eyes fixed on the closed gates of heaven, the holy souls long for God, yearn for God, hunger and thirst for God.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The terms of their sentences ring in their ears: "thus and thus long shall you remain separated from your joy, until these sins, misdeeds, stains and blemishes have been atoned for."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Balanced against their consuming hunger for God is their certainty that they would not dare enter His presence with the slightest stain upon them. They almost wished that the fires burned more fiercely and more rapidly so that the pain could be at once more intense and more cleansing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Imagine then their gratitude for every prayer or good deed by which we help them cleanse their soul and speed them on their way to God. Imagine the leaping joy with which they welcome any act by which we cut their sentence, shorten their stay in purgatory, and hasten their entrance into heaven. </span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Seventh Day</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> "None of us lives for himself only, none of us dies for himself only. If we live, it is for the Lord that we live, and if we die, it is for the Lord that we die. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. For Christ died and rose to life in order to be the Lord of the living and of the dead." Rom 14:7-9</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> What food is to the starving, what drink is to the parched throat, what light is to a man long blind, what restored health is to the patient invalid, what freedom is to the prisoner, all this and far more is release from purgatory of a holy soul.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> And when food, health and freedom come suddenly and unexpectedly, the human heart leaps and bounds, and the souls know the sharp ecstasy of joy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> So it is with each prayer that we say for the beseeching souls in purgatory. Our prayer is bread and water, light and health; it is a reprieve and a release, freedom and homecoming. It is the cutting of bonds, the lessening of weary waiting, the termination of exile, the sudden glorious lift that picks them up and seems almost to shoot them towards the center of their joy, God Himself.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> For us, that prayer is an almost careless gesture, a routine act of charity. Prayers, alms, a bit of fasting, a good deed done… all forgotten in the long doing. For them, however, such are beyond price and measure, something for which they can repay us only in the immortal coin of eternity.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eighth Day</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> "They will see the Lord face to face, and his name will be written on their foreheads. It will never be night again and they will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will be shining on them. They will reign forever and ever." Rev. 22:4-5</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Then, a happy day of release comes. Perhaps, for those whose friends on earth forgot and for those because of some valid reason did not receive any special consideration from God, that release comes only at the end of long and bitter centuries. Perhaps, it comes far sooner than they have dared to hope. Their friends have remembered them, prayers poured in upon them and God has accepted these in part or full payment of their debt.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> But late or soon, the release comes, the sentence is finished, the grim gates of purgatory swing open. Ahead are the white and shining portals of the Eternal City. Like the rush of light, the released soul sweep upward toward God. Fierce winds have now the fierce intensity, which marks this flight of a soul from exile to the happiness for which God destined it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Then, in the presence of God, there is the moment of triumph, the welcome by the Trinity, the entrance into the heavenly mansion, the enthronement of another saint. At that moment shall begin for that soul an eternity of bliss and incomparable happiness that shall be without flaw, never to be marred by uncertainty or disillusionment. For, then, the souls shall possess God for all eternity.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ninth Day</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> "Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn away anyone who comes to me, because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me. And it is the will of him who sent me that I should not lose any of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them all to life on the last day. For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them on the last day." John 6:37-40</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Joy does not cause the souls in heaven to forget. On the contrary, joy makes them more alive to memory. The soul that has entered into bliss does not, for a second, forget the generous friends on earth who helped him reach God and glory.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Now a saint in heaven, he uses to the full his power of intercession. He prays to God to be merciful and generous. By name he mentions to Christ and to Mary those who mentioned his name when he was helpless to help himself. He speaks to the Trinity about his friends.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> He becomes, in effect, a mighty benefactor, persuasively beseeching God to extend mercy and grant favors to those who remembered him in purgatory. He prays with the fervor of new-found joy that their passage through life will be safe, their stay in purgatory be brief, their entrance into heaven swift and triumphant. He prays that one day, they too might behold the beatific vision and see God face to face through the endlessness of eternity. It is their unselfish urge to share so great a bliss that we ask them to send us. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Source: MEDITATION from Daniel A. Lord, SJ</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Nihil Obstat: Fr. Rufino C. Sescon. Jr. Censor ad Hoc</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">THE PRAYER WARRIORS OF THE HOLY SOULS (PWHS) is an apostolate of the MONFORT FOUNDATION, INC., a non-stock, non-profit foundation, whose Founding-President is Dr. Narciso D. Monfort, M.D.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">VISION STATEMENT: The PWHS is a Catholic Apostolate of committed, prayerful members involved in activities to uplift suffering souls and to assist the living on how to avoid purgatory.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">MISSION STATEMENT: To create and spread global awareness on the plight of the holy souls in purgatory thru sustainable efforts; to pray for the holy souls; to strengthen the faith and longing for holiness of the Prayer Warriors; and to tap resources to sustain the apostolate.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The PRAYER WARRIORS of the HOLY SOULS is composed of dedicated individuals who pray, offer masses, do works of mercy for the intentions of the holy souls, and recruit members who will identify with the cause of assisting the holy souls reach their state of perfection so as to be able to enter the Kingdom of God, in an accelerated pace.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The PWHS, which was organized in July 29, 1992, is recognized by the Association of the Holy Souls (AHS) as the official organization in the Philippines that shares its objectives. The AHS is under the care of the MONASTERY PIUS XII based in Fatima, Portugal.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Deputy Executive Director of the PWHS is Carlos Oda, and the Executive Director is Chita G. Monfort, who is also the Editor-in-chief of the PWHS quarterly publication “Fore & Aft”.</span><br />
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