Our Lady, Queen of Purgatory

“I am the Mother of all the souls in purgatory,
and I am Mother of Mercy to these my children who are in the greatest need
​of my assistance, since in their torments they cannot help themselves.”
- Our Lady to St. Bridget
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Langúentibus in Purgatório

​1. The suffering souls in Purgatory,
Who are being purified in excessive heat,
And are tormented by severe punishment,
Assist them, in your compassion, O Mary!

2. You are the open-wide fount who wash away the faults of men.
All you help, rejecting none:
Extend your hand to the Dead,
Who in pain languish continually, O Mary!

3. To you the souls of the Dead lovingly sigh,
Desiring to be rescued from pain
And to stand in your sight,
To possess eternal joys, O Mary!

4. As they groan, hasten, Mother;
In mercy, show them your heart.
May Jesus through His wounds
Be pleased to heal them: ask this, O Mary!

5. You are true hope to them that call upon you.
The Holy Souls Sodality cry to you for their brethren.
Appease your Son, that in Heaven
He may give them their reward, O Mary!

6. Grant that the tears we shed at the feet of the Judge,
And which you regard with kindness,
May soon extinguish the avenging flames,
That the Holy Souls may join the choirs of Angels, O Mary!

7. And when the strict accounting takes place
In the terrible and awesome Judgment of God,
As He judges us, supplicate your Son,
That with the Saints may be our portion, O Mary!

1. Langúentibus in Purgatório
Qui purgántur ardóre nímio
Et torquéntur grávi supplício,
Subvéniat túa compássio: O María !

2. Fons es pátens qui cúlpas ábluis
Omnes júvas el núllum réspuis
Mánum túam exténde mórtuis
Qui sub poénis lánguent contínuis: O María!

3. Ad te píe suspírant mórtui
Cupiéntes de poénis érui
El adésse túo conspéctui
Ǽternísque gáudiis pérfrui: O María!

4. Geméntibus Máter accélera
Pietátis osténde víscera
Illos Jésu per súa vúlnera
Ut sanáre dignétur ímpetra: O Maria!

5. Tu véra spes ad te clamántium
Ad te clámat túrba sodálium
Pro frátribus ut pláces Filium
El caeléste det éis praémium: O María!

6. Fac lácrimae quas bóna réspicis
Quas fúndimus ad pédes Júdicis
Mox exstínguant vim flámmae víndicis
Ut jungántur chóris angélicis O María!

7. Et cum flet strícta discussio
In tremédo Déi judí cio.
Judicánti súpplica Fílio,
Ut cum Sánctis sit nóbis pórtio: O María!

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Week Two: Daily Prayers for the Faithful Departed
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