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2 of 2 ❀•°❀°•❀•°❀°•❀ THE ROSARY FOR THE POOR SOULS On the Cross: De Profundis or Pater and Ave. On the Large Beads: V. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord. R. And let perpetual light shine upon them. Act of Faith: My God, I believe in Thee, because Thou art Truth itself. Act of Hope: My God, I hope in Thee, because Thou art infinitely good. Act of Charity: My God, I love Thee with all my heart, and above all things, because Thou are infinitely perfect. (Indulgence 7 years, 7 quarantines, each time. Benedict XIV., Jan. 28, 1756. Plenary once a month, if said every day. Benedict XIII., Jan. 16, 1728.) (Plenary, in articnio mortis—at the point of death—if frequently used during life. Benedict XIV, Jan 28, 1758.) On the Small Beads: Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my love. (300 days once a day. Leo XIII., May 21, 1892.) Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation. (300 days each time. Pius IX., Sept. 30, 1852. Plenary, once a month.) At the end: Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine. (300 days each time. Pius IX., Pr. Ma. Jan. 25, 1868; Pius X., Sept. 15, 1905.) Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, pray for us. (100 days each time. Pius X., Br. July 9, 1904.) St. Joseph, model and patron of those who love the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. (100 days once a day. Leo XIII., Dec. 19, 1891.) ~ Rev. J.F. Durin, Novena for the Relief of the Poor Souls In Purgatory (1931) ❀•°❀°•❀•°❀°•❀

THE ROSARY FOR THE POOR SOULS It is a practice earnestly recommended to all persons who desire to assist the “Poor Souls.” It is said on any ordinary beads. (continued)

DO NOT FORGET that, by all means, the Holy Sacrifice of Mass is the most efficacious means to help, to relieve, to deliver the “Poor Souls” in Purgatory. ~ Rev. J.F. Durin, Novena for the Relief of the Poor Souls In Purgatory (1931)

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2 of 2 29th Day ~ How to help the Holy Souls in Purgatory 2. We should also be careful to say as many indulgence prayers as we can for them. Every prayer offered for them benefits them; every indulgenced prayer has a double efficacy. It has a satisfactory value in itself, and has a further power to obtain relief for them by reason of the indulgence attached to it. In this way how much we may do for the holy souls! 3. There are some whom God inspires to m a k e what is called the Heroic Act, by which they offer up all the satisfactions of all their works, of the prayers and Masses said for them, and the indulgences gained for them after their own death, to be bestowed on the holy souls accord ing to Our Lady's pleasure. This supreme act of self-sacrifice is indeed heroic, for it includes a willingness to remain in purgatory as long as God shall please for the sake of helping others out. What a great reward this will obtain in heaven! What gratitude it will earn from the holy souls! Think how many there are that need your help. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the The Holy Souls in Purgatory ~ November 29th ✧✿✿✧❁❁✧✿✿✧ 29th Day ~ How to help the Holy Souls in Purgatory 1. We should make it our practice to offer each day some special prayer or work for the holy souls. We may not do much, but by constancy in laboring on their behalf we shall gradually accumulate a treasure for their benefit. We should never miss saying a De Profundis for them every night, and we should offer up holy Communion for them from time to time. In our morning oblation we should pray that God may accept our labors, our sufferings, our penances for them. (continued)

2 of 2 28th Day ~ Indulgences in Purgatory 2. What is meant by a Plenary Indulgence? It is one which brings with it a complete remission of the temporal punishment due to sin, if the person gaining it has perfect dispositions, and a hatred of sin corresponding to its hatefulness. But if the dispositions are imperfect, then it has only a partial effect. Hence we may gain many plenary indulgences and yet have a large debt still to pay. 3. Are indulgences always assigned to those for who they are offered? Yes, they always bring them some benefit. Yet we are said to offer them by way of suffrage. Many theologians explain this as meaning that we ask God, if it be His good pleasure, to bestow them on this or that person; if not, on those more worthy. Our friends may gain many plenary indulgences for us after our death without our being released. We must deserve them now if we are to enjoy their full effect. Make a resolution to do more to aid the holy souls. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the The Holy Souls in Purgatory ~ November 28th ✧✿✿✧❁❁✧✿✿✧ 28th Day ~ Indulgences in Purgatory 1. We can gain for ourselves, or for the holy souls, indulgences varying from thirty days to thousands of years. Does this mean that our time in purgatory will be abridged by this period? No, but that we shall be spared that amount of suffering which would have been involved in a corresponding period of the old canonical penances of the Church. What that amount of suffering is we do not know. All we know is that each indulgence brings with it some sort of relief. It may be that an indulgence of a thousand years may only shorten our purgatory by a few moments. We may gain indulgences amounting to millions of years, yet still may have a time of purgatory remaining. (continued)

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2 of 2 27th Day ~ The Duration of Purgatory 2. No time on earth will appear a hundredth part as long as the long tedious hours in purgatory. Those who have been there but for a day have complained that they had been left there for a hundred years and more; a few moments seem like months. We little know what we are preparing for ourselves when we commit venial sins, or what is in store for us by reason of our imperfect atonement for past sins. 3. Each soul that appears before God at the particular judgment with sin imperfectly atoned for will be condemned to a certain period of purgatory, a fixed number of days, or weeks, or months, or years, as the case may be. But the time may be shortened by the prayers and suffrages of those on earth and in heaven. God will provide relief for those who have relieved others, but those who have neglected the suffering souls will in their turn be left to work out their time of suffering unaided. Be wise and provide for yourself friends now, that they may receive you into eternal habitations. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the The Holy Souls in Purgatory ~ November 27th ✧✿✿✧❁❁✧✿✿✧ 27th Day ~ The Duration of Purgatory 1. Purgatory will continue until the day of judgment. There will be some there still, who have been expiating their sins in dreadful torments for long years, perhaps for centuries. We read, in the revelations of the saints, of men being condemned to suffer the torment of fire as long as the world shall last. The Church, in sanctioning Masses in perpetuity, favors this opinion. At all events, fifty, or one hundred, or one thousand years will be the extent of the time that some will have to endure the penalty of sins committed during their life. Shall not I have to expect a long purgatory? (continued)

A PRAYER for DECEASED PARENTS O God, Who hast commanded us to honor our father and our mother; in Thy mercy have pity on the souls of my father and my mother (or, the soul of my father, or, the soul of my mother), and forgive them their trespasses (or, forgive him his trespasses, or, forgive her her trespasses); and make me to see them (or, him, or, her) again in the joy of everlasting brightness. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen. (The Roman Missal) An indulgence of 3 years. A plenary indulgence under the usual conditions, if the devout recitation of this prayer be continued every day for a month (S. P. Ap., Sept. 12, 1935). ~ The Raccolta (1943)

2 of 2 26th Day ~ The Retributions of Purgatory 2. Those who have chosen to follow their own will instead of the will of God, who have been proud and ambitious, and rebellious against God, will have far worse things to suffer. The God whom they have forgotten will in His turn forget them; and in the agony of their remorse they will lament the folly and the sin that have left them in the blackness of darkness. If without self-will there be no hell.it is also true that with out self-will there would be no purgatory. 3. Those who have neglected to help the holy souls during life will be neglected in their turn. Somehow others will forget to pray for them,or if Masses and prayers are offered for them, God will transfer the main benefit of these to others. Every one who goes to purgatory will lament his want of generosity to others while he had a chance of helping them. Slow indeed will be the release of those who did little or nothing for the release of others. Try to anticipate those punishments in kind by (1) mortification, (2) submission, (3) charity to others. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the The Holy Souls in Purgatory ~ November 26th ✧✿✿✧❁❁✧✿✿✧ 26th Day ~ The Retributions of Purgatory 1. God's way is to punish in kind. This law holds in purgatory as in most other penalties that God inflicts. Those who have pampered their bodies will suffer an exceeding great physical torment. Each sinful indulgence of the body will add to the fierceness of the scorching flames. The intemperate and glutton will suffer a parching thirst and gnawing hunger; the luxurious will be plunged into a cauldron as it were of boiling metal, and endure an agony, one moment of which will more than out-balance all the delights of earth. Have I reason to fear in this respect? (continued)

2 of 2 25th Day ~ The Allotment of Suffrages in Purgatory 2. The very prayers and Masses that wili avail us will be in great measure the result of what we do now to please God. If we help others now, we shall then have many to help us; if we give alms liberally, God will take care that we receive spiritual alms. A rich man who has been niggardly during life, but leaves a large sum of money for Masses to be said for him, will indeed derive some benefit from them, but it may be that God will transfer the great proportion of the satisfaction to some poor man who has been generous and charitable to others during life. The rich man may wait for long years, and the poor man, who had no money to leave, may be delivered at once. Learn then to be generous now. 3. The satisfactory value of every Mass, though it is in itself infinite, is not infinite as applied to the individual. It is limited by the will of God and the dispositions of man. God looks upon the merits of His Son and accepts them for that soul in proportion to its conformity to the likeness of Christ before its death. We must seek to be humble and meek of heart as Christ was, if His merits are to avail us then. Pray for more grace and love now. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the The Holy Souls in Purgatory ~ November 25th ✧✿✿✧❁❁✧✿✿✧ 25th Day ~ The Allotment of Suffrages in Purgatory 1. Everything done to help any of the holy souls brings some sort of relief to the soul for whom it is offered. But the amount of relief we do not know; it depends on the will of God and the merits of the individual. A Mass offered for one person may deliver him altogether; for another it may have the effect merely of a drop of water to cool his tongue in the burning flames, or of a breath of cool air amid the furnace of fire. On our life now will depend our speedy relief and deliverance from purgatory still more than on the prayers offered for us then. (continued)

2 of 2 24th Day ~ How to shorten our Purgatory 2. Another certain way of shortening our purgatory is devotion to the holy Mother of God. She, the Mother of mercy and compassion, has a special compassion for the suffering souls, and she, the most grateful of all the beings that God has ever created, will be speedy to relieve and to deliver those who were devout to her upon earth. Each prayer we say, each aspiration we make, each little invocation we repeat in her honor, will gain for us help when help will be sorely needed. Cannot you do something more in honor of Mary? 3. We can also pay part of the debt due to God by means of indulgenced prayers. To certain prayers and good works the Church attaches the remission of a certain amount of suffering: and she is most generous in the amount of debt that she gives us an opportunity of paying off before we die. How we shall rejoice over each such prayer when we come to experience the deliverance it has gained for us! Ask of God that, if you have to pass through purgatory, at least your time there may be short. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the The Holy Souls in Purgatory ~ November 24th ✧✿✿✧❁❁✧✿✿✧ 24th Day ~ How to shorten our Purgatory 1. Most of us cannot hope to escape altogether from the cleansing fires, but we all desire to render our sojourn there as short as possible. There are many means of doing this. All the means already mentioned for escaping altogether will help to abridge our time of waiting; especially compassion for the holy souls. They will not when they attain to the vision of God forget those who have done anything to help them. Yet how little we do! And how bitterly we shall one day regret that we have not done more! (continued)

2 of 2 23rd Day ~ Other Means of avoiding Purgatory 2. We may also hope to avoid purgatory if we prayGod to give us our purgatory in this life. It requires some courage to do so, as, if God hears our prayer, we must expect to suffer greatly before we die, and perhaps to spend our lives in intense pain. How small will be the price paid in comparison with the advantage gained! All the sufferings of this life are small compared with the sufferings after death; and moreover here we can merit, we can go on increasing our eternal reward, but not in purgatory. 3. Purity of intention in all our actions is another of the most efficacious means of attaining the same end. Any one who does all his actions purely for God's sake will have nothing for the searching fire to lay hold of. It is self that has to be burnt out of us; self-will, self-love, self-indulgence. He who is rid of these may hope to go straight to heaven, Pray that by one or other of these means you may avoid separation from God after your death. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)