Daily Pilgrimage to Purgatory: Thursday.
Daily Pilgrimage to Purgatory: Thursday.
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Preparation: Either one of the following acts or similar one will suffice:
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Prayer. O St. Margaret Mary, whom the Lord has chosen to reveal to the whole world all the treasures hidden in His merciful Heart of Love! O thou who hast heard how the Poor
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Souls in Purgatory begged for this new remedy, the devotion to the Sacred Heart which relieves them so effectively of their torments! O thou who hast set free so many of these poor prisoners by practicing this devotion: obtain for us the grace to make this Pilgrimage worthily in the company of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Amen. Unite your own intentions with those of the faithful who make this pilgrimage daily.
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Consecration of the Day:
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Divine Heart of Jesus, in making this pilgrimage with Thee as my Companion, I consecrate to Thee all my thoughts, words and actions of the entire day. I pray Thee to unite my small merits with Thine and to apply them to the Poor Souls, especially the soul of Thy servant, NN______.
Likewise do I entreat you, holy souls, to help me obtain the grace to persevere in love and loyalty toward the Sacred Heart, by submitting readily and without complaint to whatever designs He may have in my regard.
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Offering:
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Eternal Father, we offer Thee the Blood, Passion and Death of Jesus Christ, and the sorrows of the most holy Mary and St. Joseph, in payment for our sins, in suffrage for the holy souls in Purgatory, for the wants of our Holy Mother the Church, and for the conversion of sinners. Amen.
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Ejaculations:
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"May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere."
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"Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, pray for us."
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"St. Joseph, model and patron of those who love the Sacred Heart, pray for us."
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Preparatory Meditation:
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Let us for a moment, in company with the Sacred Heart, descend in spirit into the consuming flames of Purgatory. How many of these souls are beginning their painful imprisonment this very moment! How many of them have been there for a long t:me and shall be there for a longer time to come! And what a holy legion, almost entirely purified and cleansed at the present moment, shall rise to heaven this very day! How happy the Poor Souls are! They have escaped hell forever. They are certain to obtain eternal happiness. They are friends of God; they are saved. And yet, how miserable they are at the same time. They must still suffer temporal punishment for sins which have been already forgiven them. The gates of their heavenly fatherland are still closed to them; they are sentenced to expiating fire. Behold them in their present plight! Listen to their lamentations! Speak to them a word of friendship and sympathy, and hasten to their assistance!
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Thursday.
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Holy Souls in Purgatory, is there anything you regret when you think of your life on earth? I deeply regret the scandal which I have given! Oh, if I had to grieve over my own faults only... If only I would have prevented, in the hour of my health, the disastrous consequences of the scandal of which I was the cause. If only I could detain from this place of darkness the many souls that followed my sad example and listened to my pernicious teachings! But no! Through my fault the evil goes on, and perhaps, will spread over a period of years and centuries. And now I have to give an account of all the sins for which I am to blame! Oh, were I but able to let my sad words resound unto the ends of the earth and to wander through the world as a preacher of penance! With what untiring zeal would I labor among souls in order to estrange them from evil and return them to virtue. O you my friends on earth, who come to visit me in this dark prison in order to let a ray of salutary light shine upon me: you shall find in the Sacred Heart the surest and easiest way of bringing back to God as many souls as I have led into sin by bad example! Tell them that "this divine Heart is a fortress and a sanctuary for those who desire to escape divine justice by seeking refuge in Him. For the number of sins committed at the present time is so great, that they challenge a just Creator to punish the sinner swiftly and severely.
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Pious Exercises:
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Resolution. -- Today I will do everything possible to assist the souls of the faithful departed from North and South America, especially those from my native town. I also recommend myself to those who are entering heaven at this moment.
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Thought for the day. --"The Son of Man will render to everyone according to his works."
(Math. 16:27)
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Exercise. -- Give to someone a picture or a book treating of the Sacred Heart.
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Special Intention -- Pray for the soul which had the greatest devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament.
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Motive. -- That soul will obtain for you the grace to receive Holy Communion worthily at the hour of death as a pledge of your eternal salvation.
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Prayer.
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O Lord God Almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Blood of Thy divine Son Jesus, which He gave with His own hands upon the eve of His Passion to His beloved Apostles to be their food and drink, and which He left to His whole Church to be a perpetual sacrifice and life-giving food of His own faithful people, deliver the souls in Purgatory, and especially that one which was most devoted to this mystery of infinite love, that it may with Thy same, divine Son, and with Thy Holy Spirit, ever praise Thee for Thy love therein in eternal glory. Amen.
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Our Father.... Hail Mary.
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Ejaculation. -- My Jesus! Mercy!