I first wish to say thank you for accepting my application to join purgatory and also to inform everyone here that everyday I say the purgatory prayers to help release thousands of souls from purgatory!
I further ask for prayers pertaining to my health as it appears that my health is drifting down an empty road,I need to be strong for my family as I know they need me and I can not if my health is drifting
Thank you all
GOD bless you all
Ave Maria

The 15 Prayers revealed by Our Lord to St. Bridget in the Church of St. Paul at Rome, approved by Pope Pius IX

Our Lord made these promises to anyone who recited/prayed these
15 Prayers for one whole year:

1. I will deliver 15 of his lineage from Purgatory.

2. 15 Souls of his lineage will be confirmed and preserved in grace.

3. 15 Sinners of his lineage will be converted.

4. Whoever prays these Prayers will attain the 1st degree of perfection.

5. 15 Days before his death, I will give him … [More]

Prayers Honoring the 7 Times Jesus Spilled His Precious Blood for Us, as Revealed by Our Lady to St. Bridget, and Approved by Pope Clement XII

Our Lord made these promises to anyone who recited/prayed these
Prayers for 12 entire years**:

1. The soul who prays them will suffer no Purgatory.

2. The soul who prays them will be accepted among the Martyrs as though
he had spilled his blood for his faith.

3. The soul who prays them can choose three others whom Jesus will then
keep in a state of … [More]

Chaplet of the Holy Wounds

(may be said on regular Rosary beads)

On the large beads:
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ
to heal the wounds of our souls.

On the small beads:
My Jesus, pardon and mercy, through the merits
of Thy Holy Wounds.

---as taught to Sr. Mary Martha Chambon by Our Lord in France, 1907.

NOVENA PRAYERS FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS
AND THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS

After each invocation say:
My Jesus, pardon and mercy through Thy Sacred Wounds

O Jesus, Thou didst suffer and die that all mankind might be saved and brought to eternal happiness. Through the Agony of Thine Crown of Thorns I offer it to Thy Eternal Father that Thou wilt hear our pleas for further the grace of final perseverance for the just and mercy on sinners:

My dear parents and grandparents,
My brothers and sisters … [More]

Prayer to the Wound of Jesus' Shoulder

(It is related in the annals of Clairvaux that St. Bernard asked Our Lord which was His greatest unrecorded suffering, and Our Lord answered: "I had on My Shoulder, while I bore My cross on the Way of Sorrows, a grievous Wound, which was more painful than the others, and which is not recorded by men. Honor this Wound with thy devotion, and I will grant thee whatsoever thou dost ask through Its virtue and merit. And in regard to all those who shall … [More]

Prayer to Imitate the Suffering Christ

O Jesus, You have called me to suffer because You on Your part suffered for me, leaving me an example that I might follow. When You were insulted, You did not return the insult. When You were mistreated, You did not counter with threats but entrusted Yourself to the One Who judges justly. By Your wounds we are healed. Help me to imitate You in suffering.

Let me break with sin by means of my sufferings, so that I may no longer live according to the lusts … [More]

Prayers in Honor of Christ's Wounds, Passion, and Death

# Passion of Christ, Strengthen Me

Passion of Christ, strengthen me! Strengthen me under the pressure of temptation. Strengthen me when principle is at stake. Strengthen me to do Your Will, My God. Strengthen me in moments of suffering, in times of loneliness, in periods of depression. Strengthen me that I may never swerve from You, dear Christ, nor weaken through human respect, through a desire to be popular, through hope of social … [More]

Our Lady herself goes to Purgatory to release the souls

Fr. Schouppe, who has written about Purgatory from the revelations of the saints, tells us that Our Lady herself goes to Purgatory to release the souls on Saturdays and her feast days. (Fr. F.X. Schouppe S.J. Purgatory Explained page 137 in 1973 edition) Fr. Schouppe refers to St. Peter Damien’s account of Our Lady releasing souls on the feast of her Assumption on August 15th.

St. Peter Damien wrote of a certain lady having received an … [More]

Our Lord Jesus Christ revealed to Saint Margaret Mary many favours He would grant all souls devoted to His Sacred Heart. The principal ones are as follows:

1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.

2. I will give peace in their families.

3. I will console them in all their troubles.

4. I will be their refuge in life and especially in death.

5. I will abundantly bless all their undertakings.

6. Sinners shall find in my Heart the source and infinite ocean of … [More]

The Rosary

3 of the 15 Promises made to Blessed Alanus in favor of those devoted To Our Lady's Rosary:

"I will deliver very promptly from purgatory the souls devoted to my Rosary."

"Those who shall recite my Rosary piously, considering its mysteries, will not die a bad death."

"I have obtained from my Son that all the members of The Rosary Confraternity shall have for their intercessors in life and death the saints of heaven."

Chaplet of The Sacred Wounds

Sister Mary Martha Chambon, a humble lay Sister of the Visitation Order of Chambery, France, who died in the odor of sanctity, March 21st, 1907, received these two invocations from Our Lord Himself, as she affirmed, and with them a double MISSION to adore and invoke the Sacred Wounds unceasingly and to revive this devotion in the hearts of creatures.

Using your Rosary Beads say the following:
On the large beads:

'Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Wounds of Our … [More]

Powerful Means of Releasing Souls:

1) Offer up the Sacrifice of the Holy Massfor souls

2) Offer up the Daily Rosary that Our Lady of Fatimaasked of us.

3) The Way of the Cross ~ It was revealed to a chosen soul that when one offers up the stations of the cross for the holy souls in Purgatory he obtains the release of 10,000 souls!

4) The Holy Wounds of Christ

5) The Holy Face prayers and devotions of reparation

6) Praying many short indulgenced prayers:

'Jesus, Mary, I love You, save … [More]

Your Family Our Family Our beloved Departed

Once a year, lets make it a point to offer a Mass for each of our family members - both living and deceased. Let's try to choose feast days for their Masses.

And lets offer masses for the souls who dosent hav anyone to pray !

What could be easier? For Christmas this year, instead of sending a card - why not send a Spiritual Bouquet? Be different!

Only in the next life can we know the effects of our little sacrifices made with love in this life.

Efficacious Means of Releasing the Holy Souls

Food for Thought

We live in such a 'Hallmark' society. For example, we see at funerals the beautiful flower arrangements people present to the funeral parlor and church for display around the coffin of the beloved departed. After the body has been interred, the flowers are usually just tossed on top of the dirt to cover the grave. 'Yes, yes - so what's your point' you say? The point, is to think about the high cost and politics of simply burying a … [More]

Revelations of the Saints on Purgatory

St. Jean Vianney, The Cure' of Ars (1786-1859)

"We must say many prayers for the souls of the Faithful Departed, for one must be so pure to enter Heaven!"

Our Lord to Sr. Mary Martha Chambon:

"When you offer My Holy Wounds for sinners, you must not forget to do so for the souls in Purgatory, as there are but few who think of their relief...."

Our Lord to Sr. Mary Martha Chambon:

"The Holy Wounds are the treasure of treasures for the souls in … [More]

1030 - All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.

1031 - The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.

The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence (1439) and … [More]

What's the Catholic Church's View?

The existence of Purgatory or a 'purifying process' after death is a Catholic Dogma of the Faith which means every Catholic must believe in order to remain a Catholic. The Church does not insist that it is a place, but may be a process only. It is not a destination but a sort of passage through which all who must experience it, will eventually be purified enough to see God face to face.

It's understood that the souls undergoing this purification may benefit … [More]

Prayer of
St. Gertrude the Great

Our Lord dictated the following prayer to St. Gertrude the Great to release 1,000 Souls from Purgatory each time it is said.

"Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen."

St. Gertrude's life was the mystic life of the … [More]

The Holy Souls Will Repay Us
A Thousand Times Over

Now who can be in more urgent need of our charity than the souls in Purgatory? What hunger, or thirst, or dire sufferings on Earth can compare to their dreadful torments? Neither the poor, nor the sick, nor the suffering, we see around us, have such an urgent need of our help. Yet we find many good-hearted people who interest themselves in every other type of suffering, but alas! scarcely one who works for the Holy Souls.

Who can have more … [More]

"WHAT THE HOLY SOULS DO FOR THOSE WHO HELP THEM"

St. Alphonsus Liguori says that, although the Holy Souls cannot merit for themselves, they can obtain for us great graces. They are not, formally speaking, intercessors, as the Saints are, but through the sweet Providence of God, they can obtain for us as astounding favors and deliver us from evils, sickness and dangers of every kind.

It is beyond all doubt, as we have already said, that they repay us a thousand times for anything we do for … [More]

HOW WE CAN HELP THE HOLY SOULS

I. The first means is by joining the Association of the Holy Souls. The conditions are easy:

a) Have your name registered in the Book of the Association.
b) Hear Mass once a week (Sunday suffices) for the Holy Souls.
c) Pray for and promote devotion to the Holy Souls.
d) Contribute once a year an offering to the Mass Fund, which enables the Association to have perpetual Masses said every month.

(If special Masses for the Holy Souls are desired, it is important … [More]

HOW LONG DO SOULS REMAIN IN PURGATORY?

The length of time souls are detained in Purgatory depends on:

a) the number of their faults;
b) the malice and deliberation with which these have been committed;
c) the penance done, or not done, the satisfaction made, or not made for sins during life;
d) Much, too, depends on the suffrages offered for them after death

What can safely be said is that the time souls spend in Purgatory is, as a rule, very much longer than people commonly imagine.

We … [More]

CAN ALL THIS BE TRUE?

The existence of Purgatory is so certain that no Catholic has ever entertained a doubt of it. It was taught from the earliest days of the Church and was accepted with undoubting faith wherever the Gospel was preached.

The doctrine is revealed in Holy Scripture and has been handed down by Tradition, taught by the infallible Church and believed by the millions and millions of faithful of all times.

Yet, as we have remarked, the ideas of many are vague and superficial on … [More]

WHAT IS PURGATORY?

It is a prison of fire in which nearly all [saved] souls are plunged after death and in which they suffer the intensest pain.

Here is what the great Doctors of the Church tell us of Purgatory:
So grievous is their suffering that one minute in this awful fire seems like a century.

St. Thomas Aquinas, the Prince of Theologians, says that the fire of Purgatory is equal in intensity to the fire of Hell, and that the slightest contact with it is more dreadful than all the … [More]