Author Topic: Praying for the souls in purgatory not necessary (Read 54009 times)

Matto · « **Reply #70 on:** May 16, 2015, 11:52:12 PM »

Quote from: poche

For your practical resolutions, the following is suggested:

Advise your family members that when you are dying to call a Priest to give you the Last Rites which include the Sacrament of Extreme Unction and not to wait until you are unconscious or unable to converse with the Priest. The sooner a Priest is called, the better.

http://www.shrineofsaintjude.net/home1606.html#8.

They don't do Extreme Unction anymore. Now they do anointing of the sick. Unless of course your priest is a traditionalist.

And I don't know how often it happens, but my old Novus Ordo priest does not hear deathbed confessions. He just anoints the people with oil and gives them communion (leaving them in a state of mortal sin and damning them if they happen to die).

poche · « **Reply #71 on:** May 18, 2015, 10:42:43 PM »

Indulgences and Purgatory

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.

http://www.shrineofsaintjude.net/home1606.html#8.

Matto · « **Reply #72 on:** May 18, 2015, 10:47:13 PM »

Quote from: poche

Then, for each Hail Mary of the Rosary, one gains more than 2,000 days Indulgence!

Remember though that often when one attempts to gain an indulgence it is not successful. To gain an indulgence one needs to have the proper dispositions. One has to be in a state of grace and also be free from any attachment to sin, even venial sin. And for some indulgences there are other conditions also.

poche · « **Reply #73 on:** May 19, 2015, 04:16:05 AM »

Quote from: Matto

Quote from: poche
Then, for each Hail Mary of the Rosary, one gains more than 2,000 days Indulgence!

Remember though that often when one attempts to gain an indulgence it is not successful. To gain an indulgence one needs to have the proper dispositions. One has to be in a state of grace and also be free from any attachment to sin, even venial sin. And for some indulgences there are other conditions also.

That doesn't mean that we should give up trying. One of the children told me that he shot 12 baskets in honor of his late uncle. I told him that he could help his uncle a lot better if he would offer twelve worthy communions for him.

poche · « **Reply #74 on:** May 19, 2015, 10:29:41 PM »

Indulgences Come from the Spiritual Treasury

For your practical resolutions, the following is suggested:

1) Gain all the Plenary Indulgences possible, but at least partial indulgences, and apply all of them to the Poor, Suffering Souls in Purgatory.

2) Indulgences for the Act of Accepting One's Own Death from the Hands of God

The Faithful who at any moment of their lives, from a sincere spirit of love of God and with at least a contrite heart, express their intention of accepting calmly and gladly from the hands of God whatsoever manner of death it may please Him to send them, together with all of its pain, anguish and suffering, may gain the following Indulgences: One Plenary Indulgence for themselves each time they recite it (not to exceed one per day). In addition, One Plenary Indulgence for themselves at the hour of death if they have devoutly made this Act at least once during their lifetime under the following 3 conditions.

Requirements to gain the Plenary Indulgence:

1) be in the State of Grace (no mortal sins on soul;

2) make this act devoutly and, or recite a prayer which expresses this act; and, 3) have the intention of gaining these indulgences.

3) Prayerfully consider making the Heroic Act of Charity for the Poor Souls.

The Heroic Act of Charity
For the Poor, Suffering Souls in Purgatory

O Holy and Adorable Trinity, desiring to co-operate in the deliverance of the Souls in Purgatory and to testify my devotion to the Blessed Mary, ever-Virgin, I cede and renounce on behalf of those Holy Souls all of the satisfactory part of my works, and all of the suffrages which may be given to me after my death, consigning them entirely into the hands of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, that she may apply them according to her good pleasure to those souls of the Faithful Departed whom she desires to deliver from their sufferings. Deign, O my God, to accept and to bless this offering which I make to Thee at this moment. Amen.

http://www.shrineofsaintjude.net/home1606.html#8.