Seventeenth Day
Second Reason: The Love of Our Lord
– How He loves the souls in Purgatory –
Consider that Jesus has the same infinite love for the souls in Purgatory as He has for all the souls for whom He has shed His Blood. Everyone can say, He loves me and has died for me. If there are degrees to infinity, He must love […]
Sixteenth Day
First reason for bringing relief to the Souls in Purgatory
– This devotion glorifies God –
Our first motivation for hastening by every possible means the relief of those holy souls is the glory, which it gives God. Truly, nothing glorifies the Almighty, praises His holy Name, dilates his paternal Heart or contributes to the compliance of his adorable Will than the relief […]
Fifteenth Day
Forgetting the dead
– It denotes a great insensitivity –
The Bible speaks of a man called Lazarus who was covered in ulcers, dressed in rags and lay on the doorstep of a wealthy man. He asked for very little: the mere crumbs, which fell from the rich man’s table. He was refused even that.
What insensitivity! What hardness of […]
Fourteenth Day
Relief for the Souls in Purgatory
– What can bring them relief –
The Council of Trent decreed, We believe that souls detained in Purgatory are relieved by the suffrages of the faithful. That is how the Church, in its Divine and magnificent unity, includes Christians of all eras and all classes. The charity, which binds them and unites their spiritual wealth is […]
Thirteenth Day
Abandoned Souls
– Abandoned by their friends –
Consider the fact that there are souls completely forgotten in Purgatory for whom no one prays and who suffer without consolation.
It is true that the Church does not forget any of her children. Those abandoned souls have a right to the prayers of our tender Mother who petitions the Lord every […]