Author Topic: Praying for the souls in purgatory not necessary (Read 54020 times)

donkath · « **Reply #60 on:** May 07, 2015, 06:40:01 PM »

Yes indeed. Thank you Poche for these beautiful posts. Much needed instruction on the Souls in Purgatory and how to pray for them and for ourselves God bless you. AMDG+

poche · « **Reply #61 on:** May 07, 2015, 10:35:27 PM »

For your practical resolutions, the following is suggested:

Before going to Confession, going to Mass, and receiving Holy Communion, try to make sure the Liturgical Rite being used is Catholic, not the Protestant Memorial Supper Meal which is not a Catholic Rite of Mass because it does not have either the ontological or the metaphysical essence of the Mass Christ perfectly instituted and which, therefore, no one has the power to change. Without these valid essences, there is no Mass, only a Protestant Meal on a Table.

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poche · « **Reply #62 on:** May 08, 2015, 10:39:25 PM »

The Fifth Means: Asking God

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 and instead to take them straight to Heaven when they die.

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.

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poche · « **Reply #63 on:** May 11, 2015, 10:23:13 PM »

For your practical resolutions, the following is suggested:

1) Practice the above devotion of asking God that you may totally avoid Purgatory and be taken straight to Heaven when you die.

2) Every time you say the Hail Mary, say with all the fervor of your heart: “Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen”

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poche · « **Reply #64 on:** May 12, 2015, 10:48:01 PM »

A Sixth Means:
Resignation to Death

A Sixth Means of avoiding Purgatory is given to us by some great Saints who 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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