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This book was written to impress upon its readers many truths about Purgatory -- first, that it exists; second, that the souls detained there suffer long and excruciating pains, and that they desperately need our prayers and sacrifices; and that we ourselves should strive mightily to avoid Purgatory. Confirms in the reader's heart a healthy and holy respect for the sufferings endured by the Holy Souls, such that he will always remember them in his prayers. Impr. 169 pgs,

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 août 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781618903334
Langue	English

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Nihil Obstat: Richard A. O’Gorman, O.S.A. Censor Deputatus Imprimatur: Francis Archbishop of Westminster September 14, 1904
First published in 1904, by R. & T. Washbourne, 1, 2 & 4 Paternoster Row, London, and Benziger Bros., New York, Cincinnati and Chicago, under the title Forget-Me-Nots from Many Gardens, or Thirty Days’ Devotion to the Holy Souls . Retypeset, retitled and republished in 2005 by TAN Books, an Imprint of Saint Benedict Press, LLC.
ISBN: 978-0-89555-799-5
Cover illustration: Detail of stained-glass window Assumption of Our Lady . Photo copyright © 1992 Alan Brown. Used by arrangement with Al Brown Photo, 3597 N. Roberts Rd., Bardstown, Kentucky 40004.
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
TAN Books An Imprint of Saint Benedict Press, LLC Charlotte, North Carolina 2012
REST ETERNAL GRANT THEM, LORD!
Take we up the touching burden of
November plaints,
Pleading for the Holy Souls,
God’s yet uncrowned Saints.
Still unpaid to our departed
is the debt we owe;
Still unransomed, some are pining,
sore oppressed with woe.
Friends we loved and vowed to cherish
call us in their need:
Prove we now our love was real,
true in word and deed.
“Rest eternal grant them, Lord!”
full often let us pray—
“Requiem aternam dona eis, Domine!”
REQUIEM AETERNAM
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.
ETERNAL REST
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.
CONTENTS
1. FIRST DAY—A Day of Fervent Prayer That Many Souls in Purgatory May Be Admitted To the Joys of Paradise
2. SECOND DAY—A Day of Supplication for All the Faithful Departed
3. THIRD DAY—A Day of Prayer for Those Who Suffer Most in Purgatory
4. FOURTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for the Souls Longest in Purgatory
5. FIFTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for Deceased Parents and Relatives
6. SIXTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for Deceased Friends and Benefactors
7. SEVENTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for Poor Souls Who Have None to Pray for Them
8. EIGHTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory Who during Life Were Most Devoted to the Blessed Sacrament
9. NINTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for the Souls In Purgatory Who during Life Were Most Devoted to Our Blessed Lady
10. TENTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for the Souls In Purgatory Who during Life Were Most Devoted to St. Joseph
11. ELEVENTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for vii All the Faithful Who Died during the Past Year ….
12. TWELFTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for Deceased Priests and Religious
13. THIRTEENTH DAY—A Day of Prayer For Those Who While on Earth Were Most Fervent in Praying for the Souls in Purgatory
14. FOURTEENTH DAY—A Day of Prayer For the Souls in Purgatory Who during Life Were Most Devoted to the Holy Angels
15. FIFTEENTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for The Soul Who Is Richest in Merit
16. SIXTEENTH DAY—A Day of Humility to Atone for Souls Suffering for Sins of Pride
17. SEVENTEENTH DAY—A Day of Prayer For Souls Suffering for Sins of Anger and Impatience
18. EIGHTEENTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for Souls Suffering for Sins of Intemperance
19. NINETEENTH DAY—A Day of Charity To Atone for Souls Suffering for Sins against This Virtue
20. TWENTIETH DAY—A Day of Prayer for Souls Suffering in Purgatory on Our Account
21. TWENTY-FIRST DAY—A Day of Prayer For Souls Whom Our Blessed Lady Is Most Desirous to Have Released from Purgatory
22. TWENTY-SECOND DAY—A Day of Prayer For the Souls in Purgatory Who Were Most Devoted to the Sacred Heart
23. TWENTY-THIRD DAY—A Day of Prayer For Those Who Died Suddenly and without Preparation
24. TWENTY-FOURTH DAY—A Day of Prayer For Souls Suffering for Sins of Detraction
25. TWENTY-FIFTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for Souls Who while on Earth Were Most Devoted To the Sacred Passion
26. TWENTY-SIXTH DAY—A Day of Prayer For Souls Suffering for Attachment to Earthly Things
27. TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY—A Day of Prayer for Those Who Were Members of Pious Confraternities and Sodalities
28. TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY—A Day of Fervor To Atone for Souls Suffering for Negligence in Spiritual Duties
29. TWENTY-NINTH DAY—A Day of Prayer For Souls Nearest to Being Released
30. THIRTIETH DAY—A Day of Prayer for All The Faithful Departed, Especially for Those Who Died during This Month
Appendix I: Prayers for the Souls in Purgatory
Appendix II: How to Gain a Plenary Indulgence
Appendix III: The Dies Irae
A Collection of Classic Artwork
What Will Hell Be Like
We Expect Reward or Punishment
Teaching of Pagan Philosophers
Belief of Pagans
Where Is Hell Located?
Catholic Teaching
Hell Is a Definite Place
Pains of Hell
Fire of Hell
Can a Spiritual Soul Feel Fire?
Punishment by Cold
Remorse of Conscience
Suffering from Devils and Darkness
Pain of Loss of God
Teaching of St. Thomas
God Makes Heaven
God Makes Hell
Eternal Choice Is Made During Life
Greatest Pain of Hell
The Damned Do Not Forget
The Damned Know Nothing About Us
Do the Damned Have Faith?
The Will Is Set on Evil
Do the Damned Wish Evil to Others?
Case of the Rich Man in Hell
Do the Damned Repent of Sin?
Hatred of God
Do the Damned Desire to Be Destroyed?
Punishment of Hell Is Eternal
This Punishment Is Not Unjust
How Punishment Is Measured
The Patience of God
Jesus’ Parable of Dives and Lazarus
Fatima Children’s Vision of Hell
FIRST DAY
A DAY OF FERVENT PRAYER THAT MANY SOULS IN PURGATORY MAY BE ADMITTED TO THE JOYS OF PARADISE
A LL SAINTS—All Souls! It was well done to place thus close together these two beautiful solemnities. There is a fitness, too, in this season of the fall of the leaf for such a commemoration of the departed. The flowers and green leaves of May, the yellow harvests and the warm glow of August, would be out of place upon All Souls’ Day. Better to sing this universal Requiem when Nature herself has laid aside the garments of her gladness, when the warm blood of youth is no longer coursing through the earth’s veins, when the very sunshine seems chill and sad, and the wind through the naked branches is a dirge. But at whatever period they come, All Saints Day [November 1] and All Souls Day [November 2] should come together. And they come together, though one might be tempted, in all reverence, to wish that the order of their coming were reversed. If the commemoration of All Souls came first, we might hope that the suffrages of all the Church Militant on that day, joined with the prayers of all the Church Triumphant, might avail much to the relief of the Suffering Church; might procure the discharge of many, perhaps, among the patient victims detained in that prison house of mercy, and so increase the hosts of those honored in the Festival of All Saints. Or is it only by a tender afterthought, as it were, that the Church, having rejoiced in the glory of those of her children who have secured their crown in Heaven, turns with affectionate compassion to those others who are not yet there , though they are no longer here , whose earthly fight is over, but whose heavenly happiness is not yet attained? Would that all who are gone were gone to join that multitude which no man can number, thronging the Courts of Heaven! But so many disappoint the yearnings of the Heart of Jesus. So many live and die as if Jesus had not lived and died for them. And even of those who die in the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, how few are found “with the perfect sheen of Heaven upon them”! How few are pure enough, at once, after closing their eyes upon this sinful world, to open them to the full piercing light of glory, to meet, without shrinking, the all-discerning Eye of the God of Infinite Purity! And we are living under that same Eye, and we are laboring for that Heaven which the Saints have not earned too dearly, and for which the Holy Souls are not undergoing too severe a preparation. Have we worked and prayed during the past year as if we believed this?
These and other general lessons are urged upon us by the twin feasts with which November opens—if, indeed, the 2nd of November can be called a feast—a more eager longing for the society of the blessed in Heaven, a deeper horror for sin, a keener thirst for the glory of God and for the increase of grace and merit in our own souls, and a more intense reverence for the majesty and holiness of God thus “wonderful in His Saints,” and thus rigid in the purification of the Holy Souls.
But there is for each of these solemnities one peculiar object having its counterpart amongst the objects of the other. As All Saints’ Day may well be supposed to offer compensation to such of the blessed as have no special festival during the year, so the suffrages of All Souls’ Day supply what is wanting in the individual charity of the faithful, and may be devoted chiefly to the most neglected of the Holy Souls—those who have no friends to pray for them. No doubt there are many such: some with no loving hearts to cherish their memory—and even the most loving hearts cannot keep up a practical remembrance of the departed during many years of our short lifetime. The Purgatory of many souls may last very many lifetimes. One who is hardly there now, for he ended a very holy life by a very holy death, said on his deathbed: “Eternity is so long that I think Purgatory must be long, too. You must help me, then, with prayers. Even in religion we are apt to forget our deceased brothers, relying too much on their having died religious.”
Before the month closes which is opening now, may our hearts have grown more pleasing to the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary—more dear to them because more like to them; and, as all belongs to Jesus, let us give to Mary a mother’s share in all the days of our lives, especially in these two sacred days which invite us to love and honor her as Queen of All Saints and Compassionate Mother of the Suffering Souls.