Author Topic: Praying for the souls in purgatory not necessary (Read 54050 times)

poche · « **Reply #80 on:** May 24, 2015, 10:25:15 PM »

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!

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poche · « **Reply #81 on:** May 25, 2015, 11:02:01 PM »

There was a Lady who was a member of one of the Parishes where one of our Priests was the Pastor. She called her Pastor to ask him if he could go to the local hospital to visit her Father and to say some prayers for him.
After getting the necessary details, the Pastor went to the hospital. During this visit, the Grace of God touched the heart and Soul of the Father of this Lady and he asked to go to Confession and to receive the Last Rites of the Catholic Church from which he had been away for over 50 years! Of course, the Pastor was more than happy to comply with the wishes of this very sick man.

A few days later, the Mother of the Pastor called him to tell him she had just become very ill and, with no one else to take care of her, she was hoping he could get permission from his Bishop to leave the Parish and to take care of her during her illness. She lived about a thousand miles away. The necessary arrangements were made, the Pastor left, and was temporarily replaced by another Priest.

Within several days after arriving at his Mother's home, the Pastor received an emergency call from the Lady to whose Father he had given the Last Rites only about a week earlier.

She explained to her Pastor that her Father had just died a few hours before that and that he was in desperate need of having her Pastor offer a Requiem Mass for him as soon as possible.

Why was she in such a great hurry?

In her great sorrow and deep grief, she explained to her Pastor, that her Father had just appeared to her!

She and her young Daughter were kneeling on the floor of their living room, saying the Rosary for the happy repose of his immortal Soul, when the floor beneath them opened up, as it were, and she could see her Father in a sea of huge flames! She could also hear him screaming from the horrible pain of the agony of the never-consuming fires of Purgatory!

Yes, her Father told her, he was in Purgatory, although he had been destined to go to Hell.

Her Father explained to his Daughter that because of the Last Rites which he had received from her Pastor, that he was able to escape going to Hell for all eternity!

He also told his grieving Daughter that although God had spared his Soul from going to Hell, there was no way he could go to Heaven without first going to Purgatory because between the time that the Pastor had left him in his hospital room, and the time he died, due to a bad habit, he had committed a few venial sins.

Now this Father begged his Daughter to call her Pastor immediately in order to request that he immediately Offer a Catholic Requiem Mass for him.

He was very insistent that it had to be her Pastor who was the one to Offer this Catholic Requiem Mass because he knew her Pastor was a validly Ordained Catholic Priest and that her Pastor would use his Requiem Missal with which to Offer the much needed Requiem Mass for him.

He told his Daughter that if her Pastor would offer this one Mass for his Soul, before the conclusion of this one Catholic Requiem Mass, he would be released from Purgatory and go straight to Heaven!

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poche · « **Reply #82 on:** May 27, 2015, 01:21:48 AM »

Who could be so heartless, so lacking in true, Christian Charity, not to offer a Requiem Mass for such a suffering Soul, irregardless whether or not one would want to believe in the authenticity of this reported vision?

Of course, the Pastor, who had, about a week before that, administered the Last Rites to this elderly man in the hospital, now immediately after this frantic telephone call from his agonizing Parishioner, Offered the requested, and even required, Catholic Requiem Mass.

This Soul obviously wanted to get out of Purgatory as fast as possible and he knew what he needed to do in order both to get out of Purgatory and to get to Heaven super quick! So this is why he insisted that his Daughter's Pastor Offer this Catholic Requiem Mass.

We all get much too busy at times with what are ultimately non-essential things and tend to forget about praying for the Poor, Suffering Souls in Purgatory! Therefore, let this be a gentle reminder to you that YOU need to take action!
For example, ask yourself when was the last time YOU gave a Stipend to have the required Catholic Requiem Mass Offered for the happy repose of the Soul of someone YOU know who is deceased, whether it might be a Parent, or Grandparent, or a relative, or even a close friend?

But don't limit yourself in the practice of the Theological Virtue of Charity!

Perhaps the Priest who Baptized you, or maybe the Bishop who Confirmed you, or perhaps some of the Priests at whose Masses you assisted years ago are deceased? Such Bishops and Priests need Masses, too!

Think of all of the terrible, horrible sufferings YOU will spare a Soul that is in Purgatory!

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poche · « **Reply #83 on:** May 27, 2015, 10:48:07 PM »

To Avoid Purgatory, Do as Follows

1. In every prayer you say, every Holy Mass at which you assist, every Holy Communion you receive, every good work you perform, have the express intention of imploring God to grant you a holy and happy death and that you will go straight to Heaven when you die. Surely God will hear a prayer said with such confidence and perseverance.

2. Always unite and conform your will with 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 labors 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. Practice little acts of supererogation.

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 favor to others when it is possible.

These and suchlike little acts are a splendid penance, but the most perfect penance is to unite and conform you will with God’s Holy Will.

8. Do all in your power for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Pray for them constantly, get others to do so, have Requiem Masses offered for them, gain plenary indulgences and partial indulgences for them.

9. There is no way more powerful of obtaining from God a most holy and happy death than by weekly Confession, daily Mass

10. A daily visit to the Blessed Sacrament, kneeling in the presence of the Eucharist Christ, with your eyes fixed on the Tabernacle, while you say a few prayers such as: "My Jesus, mercy." "My Jesus, have pity on me, a sinner" "My Jesus, I love You" "My Jesus, give me a happy death". Always remember to make a Spiritual Communion.

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poche · « **Reply #84 on:** May 28, 2015, 10:25:21 PM »

Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, I believe that Thou art really present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love Thee above all things and I desire to possess Thee within my soul. Since I am unable now to receive Thee Sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace Thee as being already there, and I unite myself wholly to Thee; never, never permit me to be separated from Thee. Amen.

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