MARY, OUR MOTHER

Saturday, November 05, 2005

CHAPTER LXXV: TWO HEARTS OF WIT & WISDOM

THE CHURCH TEACHES that God has given you and me the potential power to gain the release of SOULS FROM PURGATORY.
What a wonderful GIFT this is! Our Blessed Mother can't encourage you enough to use this Gift--often, for your loved ones and forgotten souls in Purgatory.
What better Gift could you offer them than the gaining of a plenary indulgence? As you know, a plenary indulgence is a way to obtain complete release from the temporal punishment due to sins.
There are only seven conditions you must meet in order to gain this Plenary Indulgence:

Be baptized and in the state of grace.
receive Holy Communion each time you strive to gain a plenary indulgence.
Go to Confession within approximately a four-week period. A single sacramental confession suffices for gaining several plenary indulgences.
Have a disposition of mind and heart that totally excludes all affection to sin, even venial sin.
Pray for the intentions of the Holy Father, the Pope: One 'Our Father' and one 'Hail Mary' and a 'Glory Be.'
Have at least a general intention to gain a plenary indulgence.
Fulfill one of the following suggested spiritual works: At least a half hour's adoration before the Blessed Sacrament; Or, Family or group Rosary; Or, Private Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament; Or, walking the Stations of the Cross in a Church; Or, at least a half hour of pious reading of the Bible; Plus, on the Feast of All Souls, Nov. 2nd, a plenary indulgence may be gained by prayerfully visiting a church. And, from Nov. 1-8 visit a cemetery and pray for the departed, a plenary indulgence is gained.

That's all there is to it. It's powerful. It's beautiful.

By giving 30 minutes of your time here, you could gain eternal happiness for a soul now suffering in Purgatory.

And imagine the gratitude the soul you loose from Purgatory will have for you when that soul resides in Heaven. Praying for you! And your loved ones! Even if it is only a partial indulgence, reducing part of their temporal punishment, that soul will be forever grateful, because the poor souls cannot help themselves. But those of us still on earth can shorten their time in Purgatory and relieve their suffering through our prayers, good works and indulgences.

It is a fact that the prayers of the Poor Souls, and souls released from Purgatory, are extremely powerful with God.

Just 30 minutes of your time. What a small price to pay!

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‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head.’

(Gen. 3:15)

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Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

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