Week Four of Daily Prayers for the Faithful Departed: Day 24 | Day 25 | Day 26 | Day 27 | Day 28 | Day 29 | Day 30 Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. Week Three of Daily Prayers for the Faithful Departed: Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | Day 20 | Day 21 | Day 22 | Day 23 Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. Week Two: Daily Prayers for the Faithful Departed Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14 | Day 15 | Day 16 Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. The Souls in Purgatory appreciate the things of God more fully than we. Enlightened by divine love, they understand the respect and obedience which God merited for them, and the ingratitude and baseness of their sins.
The Souls in Purgatory are powerless to help themselves. They cannot do penance, nor offer satisfaction, nor gain indulgences, nor receive the Sacraments. They cannot pray for themselves. We, who are still on earth, can share with them the Graces which God so generously and abundantly gives us.
In consideration of our future prayers, God deigns to grant to a dying sinner good dispositions which secure him the salvation of his soul.
Pieve di San Cassiano di Controni - Purgatorio Death separates us; it breaks the earthly tie which binds this one to the other, but it cannot break the spiritual tie which unites one soul to another – one heart to another.
The souls of the Just do not leave us; if we desire it they still remain with us, affording us and indescribable but very effective solace. Let us recall them frequently by our prayers, by our aspirations, and by our good works which will help them and will help us to gain Heaven.
Is not the memory of the dead sweet to the heart, and is it not truly consoling to gather about us in thought the family dispersed by death?
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