Ijournal entry 110215 #44 November, Month of The Holy Souls. GO SAINTS! Quotes from St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, St. Robert Southwell, and Pope St. Gregory the Great. Book: "Who Dies Shall See……Purgatory and Heaven", by Servant of God, Dom Dolindo Ruotolo. "Purgatory and Praying for the Holy Souls"' by by Fr. Tommy Lane. Audio presentation: "Ths Bible teaches Purgatory", by Brother Peter Diamond
Prayer of Blessed James Alberione
"Blessed souls, you are suffering and asking suffrage from me; I am in great danger and need, and I await aid and protection from you. So for this (month or year) I will offer all my prayers and especially all my good works for you. And you in turn remember my needs; deliver me from the dangers I face, and in particular, obtain for me this grace (mention petition). And let the first of you to enter heaven not cease to plead for me before the divine mercy until I, too, arrive there. May the Sacred Heart bless this agreement. Amen."
"Blessed souls, you are suffering and asking suffrage from me; I am in great danger and need, and I await aid and protection from you. So for this (month or year) I will offer all my prayers and especially all my good works for you. And you in turn remember my needs; deliver me from the dangers I face, and in particular, obtain for me this grace (mention petition). And let the first of you to enter heaven not cease to plead for me before the divine mercy until I, too, arrive there. May the Sacred Heart bless this agreement. Amen."
Three consecutive wins in a row
Celebrating heartedly, You go Black & Gold Boys, GO!!!
Celebrating heartedly, You go Black & Gold Boys, GO!!!
🔴 "Once I was summoned to the judgment of God. I stood alone before the Lord. Jesus appeared such as we know Him during His Passion. After a moment, His wounds disappeared except for five, those in His hands, His feet and His side. Suddenly I saw the complete condition of my soul as God sees it. I could clearly see all that is displeasing to God. I did not know that even smallest transgressions will have to be accounted for. What a moment! Who can describe it? To stand before the Thrice-Holy God!" By St. Maria Faustina Kowalsk
⚫️ "The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing". By St. Robert Southwell
🔵 "Beside all this, a more wonderful grace is bestowed upon the Saints in heaven: for they know not only them with whom they were acquainted in this world, but also those whom before they never saw, and converse with them in such familiar sort as though in times past they had seen and known one another: and therefore when they shall see the ancient fathers in that place of perpetual bliss, they shall then know them by sight, whom always they knew in their lives and conversation. For seeing they do in that place with unspeakable brightness, common to all, behold God, what is there that they know not, that know him who knoweth all things?" By Pope St. Gregory the Great
⚫️ "The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing". By St. Robert Southwell
🔵 "Beside all this, a more wonderful grace is bestowed upon the Saints in heaven: for they know not only them with whom they were acquainted in this world, but also those whom before they never saw, and converse with them in such familiar sort as though in times past they had seen and known one another: and therefore when they shall see the ancient fathers in that place of perpetual bliss, they shall then know them by sight, whom always they knew in their lives and conversation. For seeing they do in that place with unspeakable brightness, common to all, behold God, what is there that they know not, that know him who knoweth all things?" By Pope St. Gregory the Great
One of the books on my reading leader board by St. Padre Pio's spiritual director, Servant of God Dom Dolindo , about purgatory is a real eye opener. He reiterates how painful purgatory is, and shares an account of the sufferings holy souls as was seen by St. Magdalene De Pazzi in a revelation. Knowing it is painful is not new to me, but his presentation and examples, helps me to more than get it. It's like, making an impression like never before. After reading her account, it really was the impetus for lighting a fire for me to try and heed my dad's advice. He used to say at times: "you better straighten up and fly right", or at other times: shape up or ship out. All these little idioms have never left my mind. Guess kids today aren't hearing these kind of things anymore. Maybe parents then, knew they would serve a purpose in reinforcing the following scripture:
"Train up a child in the way he should go, Evenwhen he is old he will not depart from it"
Maybe this is triggering your memory about something your parents used to say. If you care to, please share. At the times, such sayings seemed so lame and uncool, but now what a difference "a day" makes. With a day passing after reading, the marinating process was complete. In the morning of the following day, that was heavy on my mind. It all made perfect sense. How easy it is to believe the revelations of St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, because our earthly experiences strikingly foreshadows the happenings in the spirit world. We can se that on earth, when we have an illness, a disorder, or disease, the treatment plan or remedy is most often painful, or assuredly a discomfort more often than not. Take for example a broken bone. The need is there for a cast, and the case may even necessitate additional surgery. The incision and other aspects of the treatment plan will produce pain and a bit of suffering varying in nature, depending on the person. Being out sick, time for rehabilitation, one's threshold for pain, etc. makes a big difference from individual to individual. Another example is dieting for obesity, that is not a piece of cake🍰 for sure. Ask someone prone to anger if they find their anger management sessions delightful and fulfilling?
So with these earthly examples, we can see that correction and reversing disorder is most often a painful process. So dear people: "on earth as it is in heaven", says it all. Needless to say, after reading about purgatory, pumped up and motivated. On my lips are these words: "Mercy, mercy, Divine Mercy, Lord God, please have mercy on me", have mercy on us. Also the holy souls are more on my mind than usual, and offering small sacrifices a bit more often. Hope that last and don't wear off, as their is the tenancy for good intentions to easily slip away unless we teams in vigilant. May our Guardian Angel help keep us in check. There is a song, "Change my Heart O God", and a scripture that is ringing in my spirit:
🎵🎶🎵 Change My Heart oh God:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjUvoynGMM&sns=em
Maybe this is triggering your memory about something your parents used to say. If you care to, please share. At the times, such sayings seemed so lame and uncool, but now what a difference "a day" makes. With a day passing after reading, the marinating process was complete. In the morning of the following day, that was heavy on my mind. It all made perfect sense. How easy it is to believe the revelations of St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, because our earthly experiences strikingly foreshadows the happenings in the spirit world. We can se that on earth, when we have an illness, a disorder, or disease, the treatment plan or remedy is most often painful, or assuredly a discomfort more often than not. Take for example a broken bone. The need is there for a cast, and the case may even necessitate additional surgery. The incision and other aspects of the treatment plan will produce pain and a bit of suffering varying in nature, depending on the person. Being out sick, time for rehabilitation, one's threshold for pain, etc. makes a big difference from individual to individual. Another example is dieting for obesity, that is not a piece of cake🍰 for sure. Ask someone prone to anger if they find their anger management sessions delightful and fulfilling?
So with these earthly examples, we can see that correction and reversing disorder is most often a painful process. So dear people: "on earth as it is in heaven", says it all. Needless to say, after reading about purgatory, pumped up and motivated. On my lips are these words: "Mercy, mercy, Divine Mercy, Lord God, please have mercy on me", have mercy on us. Also the holy souls are more on my mind than usual, and offering small sacrifices a bit more often. Hope that last and don't wear off, as their is the tenancy for good intentions to easily slip away unless we teams in vigilant. May our Guardian Angel help keep us in check. There is a song, "Change my Heart O God", and a scripture that is ringing in my spirit:
🎵🎶🎵 Change My Heart oh God:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjUvoynGMM&sns=em
"Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me"
Yes, yes, it's time now to change. Let us learn and turn away from faults, failings, and wrong doing by the help of God's grace. To ask is to receive!
Yes, yes, it's time now to change. Let us learn and turn away from faults, failings, and wrong doing by the help of God's grace. To ask is to receive!
"For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened"
Book: "Who Dies Shall See……Purgatory and Heaven", by Servant of God, Dom Dolindo Ruotolo
Chapter- Revelations of Saints:
"Revelations given to us by Saints cannot be seen in the thick fog of our materiality and sensibility that is more selfish than logical. We need to meditate on them in the reality of a world and a life of purification so much different from our world and our earthly life.In this light of love, we are going now to narrate a revelation given by St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi. One evening the Saint was walking with a group of Sisters in the garden of the convent when she fell into ecstasy. The nuns heard her shouting a few times: “Yes, yes,I’ll follow You” – these words were directed to her Guardian Angel and she was agreeing to his invitation to visit Purgatory. The Sisters, walking with her, looked at her in admiration and terror. She then started that sorrowful walk about which, later on, she wrote a detailed report. Now and then she would move around the garden bent to the floor like a person crushed under a very heavy weight, while with gestures and the expression of her face she alternatively showed horror and compassion at what the Angel was showing her.
Sometime she would shout with high cries: “Oh, what a torment! Mercy, my God,mercy!” The Angel took her into the deepest part of Purgatory. There she saw Priests and Religious. At that she shouted: “What! Priests and Religious in this horrid place! Oh, my God have mercy! How great is their torments!” and while she so highly lamented she was seen trembling and in great pain herself. From the place of purification of the Priests, she was taken to the one where there were simple souls, children and unlettered souls whose faults were mitigated by their ignorance. She saw ice and fire and souls who would go alternative from one place to the other. They looked like they were in torment and at the same time they looked happy because they knew that such torments were their way to their eternal joy with God.
In another place she saw a great number of loathsome demons piercing those souls who in their earthly life had been vain and hypocritical to benefit from others. In another place she saw a huge crowd carrying very heavy weights pushed toward a place were they all ended crushing on the ground and she was told that those souls during their life had been impatient and disobedient. She entered the place of the liars, which was very close to Hell. There souls were immersed in an icy pond and demons poured liquid lead into their mouths. She saw the souls of the miserly almost melted by this fire, which was almost like lead in a furnace. She saw the place of impure souls who had their sins forgiven but did not expiate them sufficiently when they lived on earth. Their place of expiation was filthy and rotten. The mere sight of it aroused horror and excruciating pains. She saw the prison of ambitious souls and she saw them suffering excruciating pain in thick darkness. On seeing them she shouted: “Oh how miserable they are! They wanted to be over others and now they are condemned to suffer in this darkness!” As she went on, she saw the souls who never had been grateful to God, being hard of heart. These souls had never known the meaning of their Creator, Redeemer and loving Father. She could see them plunged in a lake of liquid lead in pain for having left the fountain of grace remain sterile in them because of their ungratefulness. Finally in the last prison she was shown those souls who even without any special vice, committed numberless of venial sins and for this reason they had to endure the punishment for them due to the real vices but in smaller proportion.
It is clear that the kind of pain seen by Saint Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi for the different sins that the souls expiate in Purgatory were symbols of a most painful reality that cannot have comparison with the pains on earth. God could only show to an earthly creature an image of the pains of Purgatory, for each state of sin or imperfection of the souls. The ice and the fire that the Saint saw for those souls, reflected the cold-heartedstate of those souls, who did not love God and did not know Him out of ignorance; the fire meant the burning longing they have to know and love Him. The piercing suffered by the souls who had been vain in their life represented the strong pangs of regret of their spirit, shown as needles because they penetrated deeply in them who had sought instead creaturely pleasures. The heavy weights on the souls who had been impatient and disobedient stood for the oppression they felt in being held over the fire and enclosed by the flames. The liquid lead poured into the throats of the liars and the icy pond in which they were plunged was in reality symbol of the expiation for the lies. Their opposition to the Eternal Truth was like a fire that causes destruction and the cold for the spirit far from the Eternal Truth. The liquid lead where she saw the miserly seemed to be melting was their tormenting expiation for being so much attached to money. The filth where they chaste souls stay represented the conditions of their soul and the filth of their shameful acts.
The darkness of the ambitious soul was the expiation for their ardent desire to shine with earthly glory. Every sin in fact, every imperfection stains the soul. It becomes for the soul like a cloth, a nature, a way of living, so much so that we spontaneously do not say the vice is a man, but we personify it; we do not say: “ This man sin of avarice” but we say: “He is amiser”. The vice covers him altogether and the expiation also covers the soul too and the soul is like lead that melts; it becomes then free from the dross and takes a new form, so to speak, a form of justice that makes the soul longing for the richness of the Eternal Life. The pride becomes humility, in the humiliation of the pains that weigh over the soul; the avarice, detachment from earthly things in the longing to own the Eternal Goodness; the lewdness, filth cloth of filthy passions, becomes like a penitential cloth that cleans the soul. The state of rage becomes a habit of patience because the soul endures with love the pain that balance her with the peace. The gluttony slowly through the expiation acquires a taste for eternal things. Envy becomes charity for the yearning that all suffering souls may enter into the eternal glory. Sloth becomes strong leaps toward the Lord through the expiation that purifies the soul, awaking it from the dullness in which it lived on earth.
The soul is almost like a silkworm: first it has an earthly life with earthly longings similar to a silkworm before becoming a butterfly, famish eating of the mulberry tree.The soul enters Purgatory like a slime and revolting worm like the silkworm in the cocoon. Being once in the sphere of Purgatory, the soul acquires almost a new nature until it becomes the butterfly that flies toward God in its eternal happiness. If we would consider the damage we do to ourselves with our venial sins and the poor satisfaction of passing moments, we would not be so foolish to follow so easily the impetus of our passion and the pleasures of the senses. We would constrain ourselves and live as much as possible in the grace of God! Instead we are like very foolish and bad children who for a tantrum during a game hurt themselves and for the miserable pleasure of lighting a small flame end up causing afire!"
Chapter- Revelations of Saints:
"Revelations given to us by Saints cannot be seen in the thick fog of our materiality and sensibility that is more selfish than logical. We need to meditate on them in the reality of a world and a life of purification so much different from our world and our earthly life.In this light of love, we are going now to narrate a revelation given by St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi. One evening the Saint was walking with a group of Sisters in the garden of the convent when she fell into ecstasy. The nuns heard her shouting a few times: “Yes, yes,I’ll follow You” – these words were directed to her Guardian Angel and she was agreeing to his invitation to visit Purgatory. The Sisters, walking with her, looked at her in admiration and terror. She then started that sorrowful walk about which, later on, she wrote a detailed report. Now and then she would move around the garden bent to the floor like a person crushed under a very heavy weight, while with gestures and the expression of her face she alternatively showed horror and compassion at what the Angel was showing her.
Sometime she would shout with high cries: “Oh, what a torment! Mercy, my God,mercy!” The Angel took her into the deepest part of Purgatory. There she saw Priests and Religious. At that she shouted: “What! Priests and Religious in this horrid place! Oh, my God have mercy! How great is their torments!” and while she so highly lamented she was seen trembling and in great pain herself. From the place of purification of the Priests, she was taken to the one where there were simple souls, children and unlettered souls whose faults were mitigated by their ignorance. She saw ice and fire and souls who would go alternative from one place to the other. They looked like they were in torment and at the same time they looked happy because they knew that such torments were their way to their eternal joy with God.
In another place she saw a great number of loathsome demons piercing those souls who in their earthly life had been vain and hypocritical to benefit from others. In another place she saw a huge crowd carrying very heavy weights pushed toward a place were they all ended crushing on the ground and she was told that those souls during their life had been impatient and disobedient. She entered the place of the liars, which was very close to Hell. There souls were immersed in an icy pond and demons poured liquid lead into their mouths. She saw the souls of the miserly almost melted by this fire, which was almost like lead in a furnace. She saw the place of impure souls who had their sins forgiven but did not expiate them sufficiently when they lived on earth. Their place of expiation was filthy and rotten. The mere sight of it aroused horror and excruciating pains. She saw the prison of ambitious souls and she saw them suffering excruciating pain in thick darkness. On seeing them she shouted: “Oh how miserable they are! They wanted to be over others and now they are condemned to suffer in this darkness!” As she went on, she saw the souls who never had been grateful to God, being hard of heart. These souls had never known the meaning of their Creator, Redeemer and loving Father. She could see them plunged in a lake of liquid lead in pain for having left the fountain of grace remain sterile in them because of their ungratefulness. Finally in the last prison she was shown those souls who even without any special vice, committed numberless of venial sins and for this reason they had to endure the punishment for them due to the real vices but in smaller proportion.
It is clear that the kind of pain seen by Saint Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi for the different sins that the souls expiate in Purgatory were symbols of a most painful reality that cannot have comparison with the pains on earth. God could only show to an earthly creature an image of the pains of Purgatory, for each state of sin or imperfection of the souls. The ice and the fire that the Saint saw for those souls, reflected the cold-heartedstate of those souls, who did not love God and did not know Him out of ignorance; the fire meant the burning longing they have to know and love Him. The piercing suffered by the souls who had been vain in their life represented the strong pangs of regret of their spirit, shown as needles because they penetrated deeply in them who had sought instead creaturely pleasures. The heavy weights on the souls who had been impatient and disobedient stood for the oppression they felt in being held over the fire and enclosed by the flames. The liquid lead poured into the throats of the liars and the icy pond in which they were plunged was in reality symbol of the expiation for the lies. Their opposition to the Eternal Truth was like a fire that causes destruction and the cold for the spirit far from the Eternal Truth. The liquid lead where she saw the miserly seemed to be melting was their tormenting expiation for being so much attached to money. The filth where they chaste souls stay represented the conditions of their soul and the filth of their shameful acts.
The darkness of the ambitious soul was the expiation for their ardent desire to shine with earthly glory. Every sin in fact, every imperfection stains the soul. It becomes for the soul like a cloth, a nature, a way of living, so much so that we spontaneously do not say the vice is a man, but we personify it; we do not say: “ This man sin of avarice” but we say: “He is amiser”. The vice covers him altogether and the expiation also covers the soul too and the soul is like lead that melts; it becomes then free from the dross and takes a new form, so to speak, a form of justice that makes the soul longing for the richness of the Eternal Life. The pride becomes humility, in the humiliation of the pains that weigh over the soul; the avarice, detachment from earthly things in the longing to own the Eternal Goodness; the lewdness, filth cloth of filthy passions, becomes like a penitential cloth that cleans the soul. The state of rage becomes a habit of patience because the soul endures with love the pain that balance her with the peace. The gluttony slowly through the expiation acquires a taste for eternal things. Envy becomes charity for the yearning that all suffering souls may enter into the eternal glory. Sloth becomes strong leaps toward the Lord through the expiation that purifies the soul, awaking it from the dullness in which it lived on earth.
The soul is almost like a silkworm: first it has an earthly life with earthly longings similar to a silkworm before becoming a butterfly, famish eating of the mulberry tree.The soul enters Purgatory like a slime and revolting worm like the silkworm in the cocoon. Being once in the sphere of Purgatory, the soul acquires almost a new nature until it becomes the butterfly that flies toward God in its eternal happiness. If we would consider the damage we do to ourselves with our venial sins and the poor satisfaction of passing moments, we would not be so foolish to follow so easily the impetus of our passion and the pleasures of the senses. We would constrain ourselves and live as much as possible in the grace of God! Instead we are like very foolish and bad children who for a tantrum during a game hurt themselves and for the miserable pleasure of lighting a small flame end up causing afire!"
"Purgatory and Praying for the Holy Souls"' by by Fr. Tommy Lane
Info from this site:
http://www.frtommylane.com/homilies/years_abc/all_souls-2.htm
"We can help the souls in Purgatory in many ways:
🙏 "Having Mass offered for the soul of a departed loved one is the greatest help we can give them because Mass, being the sacrifice of Jesus offered to the Father, is the greatest prayer.
🙏 We can pray for the souls in Purgatory.
🙏 We can offer our fasting, almsgiving, pilgrimages the glory of God, in atonement for sins of those in Purgatory.
🙏 Let us also remember to gain indulgences for the souls in Purgatory this week. We can gain a plenary indulgence (full remission of all temporal punishment due for sins whose guilt has already been forgiven [temporal punishment is the remains of sin which do not leave us totally open to grace]) for souls in Purgatory today, Commemoration of All Souls, by:
🙏 Visiting a church or oratory and praying there the Creed and one Our Father
🙏 Praying for the Pope’s intentions
🙏 Receiving Holy Communion within a week before or afterwards
🙏Receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation within a week before or afterwards
🙏Being in a state of grace i.e. not having any attachment or desire for sin of any kind.
🙏 We can also gain a plenary indulgence (full remission of all temporal punishment due for sins) for souls in Purgatory each day from Nov 1st to 8th by
🙏visiting a cemetery and praying for the faithful departed
🙏 praying there for the Pope’s intentions the Creed and one Our Father
🙏 Receiving Holy Communion within a week before or afterwards
🙏 Receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation within a week before or afterwards
🙏 Being in a state of grace i.e. not having any attachment or desire for sin of any kind.
🙏 Let us pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory."
Info from this site:
http://www.frtommylane.com/homilies/years_abc/all_souls-2.htm
"We can help the souls in Purgatory in many ways:
🙏 "Having Mass offered for the soul of a departed loved one is the greatest help we can give them because Mass, being the sacrifice of Jesus offered to the Father, is the greatest prayer.
🙏 We can pray for the souls in Purgatory.
🙏 We can offer our fasting, almsgiving, pilgrimages the glory of God, in atonement for sins of those in Purgatory.
🙏 Let us also remember to gain indulgences for the souls in Purgatory this week. We can gain a plenary indulgence (full remission of all temporal punishment due for sins whose guilt has already been forgiven [temporal punishment is the remains of sin which do not leave us totally open to grace]) for souls in Purgatory today, Commemoration of All Souls, by:
🙏 Visiting a church or oratory and praying there the Creed and one Our Father
🙏 Praying for the Pope’s intentions
🙏 Receiving Holy Communion within a week before or afterwards
🙏Receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation within a week before or afterwards
🙏Being in a state of grace i.e. not having any attachment or desire for sin of any kind.
🙏 We can also gain a plenary indulgence (full remission of all temporal punishment due for sins) for souls in Purgatory each day from Nov 1st to 8th by
🙏visiting a cemetery and praying for the faithful departed
🙏 praying there for the Pope’s intentions the Creed and one Our Father
🙏 Receiving Holy Communion within a week before or afterwards
🙏 Receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation within a week before or afterwards
🙏 Being in a state of grace i.e. not having any attachment or desire for sin of any kind.
🙏 Let us pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory."
Audio presentation: "The Bible teaches Purgatory", by Brother Peter Diamond
Audio link:
http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/audio/The_Bible_teaches_Purgatory.mp3
Audio link:
http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/audio/The_Bible_teaches_Purgatory.mp3
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Holiness will sprout if U plant da right spiritual seed
Holy Scripture & Christian Classics will 4 sure meet dat need
A Great way 2 avoid overgrowth & every troublesome weed
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