HELP RESCUE THE HOLY SOULS FROM THE TORMENTS OF PURGATORY

"It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins."

(2 Machabees 12:46)

Who is 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. When they are finally released from their pains and enjoy the beatitude of Heaven, far from forgetting their friends on earth, their gratitude knows no bounds. Prostrate before the Throne of God, they never cease to pray for those who helped them. By their prayers they shield their friends from many dangers and protect them from the evils that threaten them.

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A True Family Regeneración

Hopefully parents will never forget that their authority comes from God! And hopefully family life will be founded on this holy base! The whole society creaks and wobbles. Who will save it? The government? Politicians? Political parties? Social policies or reforms? What will save it? Rallies or strikes? Or perhaps speeches? None of this can save it. The remedy is this: strengthen family life, renew it on a Christian basis.

We need a regeneration, but a spiritual regeneration, a moral regeneration. We need families, fathers, mothers, children, to faithfully observe the Decalogue. Families on whose sanctuary is respected the Kingdom of God. Families in which Christ is the law. Families that in the middle of this icy world raise the Cross of Christ, and are raised by the Cross of Christ.

Bishop Tihamér Tóth

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When the Numbers Don't Add Up

BALANCE = SACRILEGE

Modernist heresy

Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Is. 5:20)

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Prayer for priests and religious vocations

O Lord, grant us priests.

O Lord, grant us holy priests.

O Lord, grant us many holy priests. 

O Lord, grant us many holy religious vocations.

Amen.

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If the Shoe Fits...

On Communion of Saints by Archbishop Luis María Martínez

"It is often assumed that those who do good to souls are either preachers, confessors or missionaries, because they are the ones who make noise and we tend to focus only on appearances.

But the reality is different. When a priest preaches, a soul is converted; but its conversion was due not so much to the preaching of the priest, but to the hidden sacrifice of a poor unknown soul that lives in a corner of the world!

The person that made the sacrifice doesn't even know what he or she did, and neither does the one that received the benefit. Only God in Heaven knows it, and, on the last day, we are going to discover the true history of souls.

We are going to be so surprised. Ah! This grace that I received was thanks to that unknown soul that is over there, and this other grace thanks to that one... and I didn't even know it! I thought I had received those graces thanks to the ministry of a priest. No, it was thanks to the sacrifices of those unknown souls.

So with our prayers, with our sacrifices, with our life on the Cross we can save souls and buy graces for them, many more perhaps than missionaries and apostles themselves."

Luis María Martínez +, Primate Archbishop of Mexico, “Espiritualidad de la Cruz”, p.p. 97. 

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