Thirtieth Day
Last will of the deceased
– We must execute it faithfully –
A dying person’s last will is sacred! We must respect it!
The Council of Trent recommended that bishops closely scrutinise the execution of the last will made by the faithful departed.
Other Councils went so far as to refuse communion to anyone who appropriated to […]
Twenty-Ninth Day
Apparitions
– Does God allow the souls in Purgatory to come back to earth? –
One of St. Augustine’s close friends, the Bishop of Ustale, one day asked him the following, What must we make of the many reports we have of deceased people appearing and going about the world? What must we also make of the reports that in certain graveyards, sounds […]
Twenty-Eighth Day
How can we avoid Purgatory?
– By often thinking about Purgatory –
The thought of Purgatory leads our spirit to meditate on death and judgement and thereby can only inspire in us salvific reflections. Meditate on your death, the Holy Spirit tells us, and you will not sin.
The thought also inspires the spirit of penance and mortification. Meditating on […]
Twenty-Seventh Day
Eighth means of relieving the souls in Purgatory: Heroic acts of charity
– Its nature –
A heroic action consists in abandoning into Our Lady’s hands for the souls in Purgatory, all good deeds, even those done for us by others, before and after our death.
On November 20, 1854, Pope Pius IX recommended that act in a decree to […]
Last Sunday After Pentecost – A Message From St. John Chrysostom
Translation From the Holy Gospel According to Matthew
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: When you shall see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (he that reads, let him understand:) then they that are in […]
Twenty-Sixth Day
Seventh means of relieving the souls in Purgatory – Indulgences
– How precious they are –
Our sins are so serious and grievous, our reparations so slight, that we could not acquit the temporal debt of these sins in this world if the Church did not assist our weaknesses by opening up the treasure chest of indulgences.
This is an […]
