Pray for the
Holy Souls In PURGATORY
They must have prayers,
for they cannot pray for themselves;
we must pray, offer alms, offer
personal sacrifices and Masses
FOR THEM.
(Taken from the Marian Centre Newsletter, with permission)
"I see so many souls from Purgatory that they don't frighten me any more'. 'More souls of the dead than the living climb this mountain to attend my Masses and seek my prayers.' (Padre Pio)
Padre Pio had a very special relationship with the Holy Souls..indeed such was the relationship that they were his frequent visitors..and led him to make the statements quoted above.
When Padre Pio was asked how long a particular soul would stay in Purgatory he replied " At least one hundred years. We must pray for the Souls in Purgatory. It is unbelievable, what they can do for our spiritual good, out of gratitude they have towards those on earth who remember to pray for them.'
"The souls who are being purified pray for you, offer their sufferings for your well being and, through your prayers, are assisted in being set free from those human imperfections which prevent them from entering into the eternal joy of paradise....Those souls in purgatory who, while on earth, had formed part of my cohort, now enjoy a special union with me, feel in a special way my presence which sweetens the bitterness of their suffering, and shortens the time of their purification. And it is I myself who go to receive these souls into my arms, that I may lead them into the incomparable light of paradise."
(From "To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons", Our Lady's words to Father Gobbi, through locutions.)
Our Lord told St. Gertrude the GREAT that the following prayer would release 1,000 souls from Purgatory each time it is said.
Eternal Father, I offer you the Most Precious Blood of yoru Divine Son, Jesus, inunion with all 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."
PRAY FOR SOULS IN PURGATORY
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.
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 were in purgatory.
Our Lady said that if we pray the prayers
"we'll deliver so many souls, so many souls!"
for the souls in Purgatory."
BIBLE - 2 Machabees, Chapter 12. Verse 46:"it is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead,that they may be loosed from sins."
An indulgence, applicable ONLY to the Souls in Purgatory, is granted when the faithful devoutly visit a cemetery and pray for the departed.
John Paul II wrote a message to encourage prayer for the souls in purgatory, stressing the special need that the deceased have.
That charism consists in remembering the profound communion between the living and the dead.
In particular, the message published Saturday by the Vatican Press Office stressed "'suffrage' for the souls in purgatory."
"The first and highest form of charity for brothers is the ardent desire for their eternal salvation," the Pope observed.
"Christian love knows no boundaries and goes beyond the limits of space and time, enabling us to love those who have already left this earth," he said.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, in Nos. 1030 and 1031, says, in part: "All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect."
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