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I came to realize several things last night…
Being Catholic is really awesome. I actually feel bad for those who believe in other religions. For example, most of my mom’s side is Presbyterian, and there are some really beautiful God-loving people there, but my take is not so much that they are wrong, but that they are really doing things the hard way. Others, who believe in religions distant from Jesus, or who don’t believe at all…I don’t know what to say.
Look at all the perks we Catholics have: the rosary, the pope, the novenas, scapulars, relics, traditions – the list goes on…
In any event, I discovered a new prayer (St. Gertrude’s) last night on this website about purgatory www.mtep.com, and this is what hit me: the Catholic faith really has a team mentality. “Save us all”. “We are all sinners”. “Have mercy on us all”. That kind of thing. For example:
[Fatima Prayer – Lucy, Francisco, Jacinta]
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.
[Divine Mercy Prayer – St. Faustina Kowalska (Josefa Menendez)]
Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. // For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
[Purgatory Prayer – St. Gertrude]
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.
I’m a grown man, but when I first discovered the Divine Mercy Prayer, it would make me teary-eyed. To request mercy for everyone in the world is just such a beautiful thing. Lately however, having gotten used to the wording, it did not touch me in the same way. But then, when I made my discovery of the above-captioned website yesterday, I read the following:
**In one Vision, Our Lord tells Gertrude that he longs for someone to ask Him to release souls from purgatory, just as a king who imprisons a friend for justice’s sake hopes that someone will beg for mercy for his friend. Jesus ends with:
“I accept with highest pleasure what is offered to Me for the poor souls, for I long inexpressibly to have near Me those for whom I paid so great a price. By the prayers of thy loving soul, I am induced to free a prisoner from purgatory as often as thou dost move thy tongue to utter a word of prayer.”**
When I read that part, about the king hoping someone would say something just to give him any excuse to act mercifully, I got teary-eyed again.
Being Catholic is really awesome.
On a related note, I humbly ask everyone to read about the souls in purgatory, and consider praying that St. Gertrude prayer daily. We have to support the team…
Being Catholic is really awesome. I actually feel bad for those who believe in other religions. For example, most of my mom’s side is Presbyterian, and there are some really beautiful God-loving people there, but my take is not so much that they are wrong, but that they are really doing things the hard way. Others, who believe in religions distant from Jesus, or who don’t believe at all…I don’t know what to say.
Look at all the perks we Catholics have: the rosary, the pope, the novenas, scapulars, relics, traditions – the list goes on…
In any event, I discovered a new prayer (St. Gertrude’s) last night on this website about purgatory www.mtep.com, and this is what hit me: the Catholic faith really has a team mentality. “Save us all”. “We are all sinners”. “Have mercy on us all”. That kind of thing. For example:
[Fatima Prayer – Lucy, Francisco, Jacinta]
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.
[Divine Mercy Prayer – St. Faustina Kowalska (Josefa Menendez)]
Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. // For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
[Purgatory Prayer – St. Gertrude]
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.
I’m a grown man, but when I first discovered the Divine Mercy Prayer, it would make me teary-eyed. To request mercy for everyone in the world is just such a beautiful thing. Lately however, having gotten used to the wording, it did not touch me in the same way. But then, when I made my discovery of the above-captioned website yesterday, I read the following:
**In one Vision, Our Lord tells Gertrude that he longs for someone to ask Him to release souls from purgatory, just as a king who imprisons a friend for justice’s sake hopes that someone will beg for mercy for his friend. Jesus ends with:
“I accept with highest pleasure what is offered to Me for the poor souls, for I long inexpressibly to have near Me those for whom I paid so great a price. By the prayers of thy loving soul, I am induced to free a prisoner from purgatory as often as thou dost move thy tongue to utter a word of prayer.”**
When I read that part, about the king hoping someone would say something just to give him any excuse to act mercifully, I got teary-eyed again.
Being Catholic is really awesome.
On a related note, I humbly ask everyone to read about the souls in purgatory, and consider praying that St. Gertrude prayer daily. We have to support the team…
Go long for the Hail Mary pass