Prayer for Souls in Purgatory

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It’s been weighing heavily on my heart recently to pray for the souls of the departed, especially the ones in Purgatory. Are they any good prayers to say regarding this?
 
I don’t know any specific prayers for souls in Purgatory, but a particularly helpful thing to do is to offer up the Eucharist for their sakes whenever you receive it.

I’m not sure about the ins and outs, but that is supposed to be very useful for them.

Another thing you can do is to do partial and plenary indulgences on their behalf, a list of which you can find here:

 
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It’s been weighing heavily on my heart recently to pray for the souls of the departed, especially the ones in Purgatory. Are they any good prayers to say regarding this?
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@GloryOfGod17 , the greatest prayer is to join in the celebration of the Eucharist .
 
I recommend the rosary for everything and everyone in all circumstances. Jesus made his mother the Queen of Heaven for a reason. There’s no greater prayer for souls on Earth and in Purgatory.
 
The two ones I like are:
Holy water is a sacramental that remits venial sin. It benefits the soul and body for the living and brings consolation to the souls of the departed. The holy souls long for holy water. If we desire to make a host of intercessors for ourselves, let us always remember the holy souls at the holy water font. The holy souls nearest to heaven may need the sprinkling of only one drop to release them.

Use Holy Water as follows: Dip your fingers into the holy water and say,

“By this holy water and by Thy precious blood, wash away all my sin, O Lord, and relieve the souls in purgatory,”

and then make the sign of the cross.

Holy water is a powerful sacramental to aid the holy souls. Several times a day St. John Macias’ would sprinkle holy water on the ground, a practice he insisted was a great help to these unseen sufferers in purgatory.
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and the Chaplet of the Precious Blood for the souls of deceased priests.
 
The doctrine of purgatory was proclaimed as a dogma of faith by Council of Florence in 1439. Also in the Bible it says nothing about purgatory when people die they go to either - Heaven or Hell.
 
No, this is not Catholic teaching. Are you aware you are on a Catholic forum? You are a Baptist; please be respectful of Catholic doctrine here.
 
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When we die, we still have attachment to sin. Maybe I wasn’t honest with my husband as to how much I was spending on Amazon. Or maybe my laziness made my family suffer, because I preferred to play on the internet rather than doing my job. Or whatever. But 99.999% of us are going to have something that keeps us from being the best people God wanted us to be.

So… we know that nothing unclean can enter heaven.

Is my Amazon spending going to send me to hell? How about playing Farmville too much?

God’s mercy has given us a process where we’re able to rid ourselves of what separates us from him.

Catholics call that process Purgatory. It’s not so much a place, as it is a state-of-being---- someone undergoing a final purification to be rid of what separates them from God. Because just like you wouldn’t go to an Oscars party or a White House gala in the same clothes you’d just painted a house in, with your hair frazzled and maybe some spinach stuck between your teeth— you wouldn’t dare enter heaven with your soul any less than sparkling.

Likewise, it’s also understood that people who are undergoing that process are no longer able to help themselves… but the people who are still alive are able to perform meritorious acts on their behalf. It’s an act of charity, just as much as feeding the hungry is. You see it in Maccabees; you see it in epitaphs of the second and third centuries; you see it in your martyrologies; you see it in your early Christian writers, like Tertullian and Cyprian of Carthage and Gregory of Nyssa and any other number of prominent figures.
 
Of course. That’s what the Redemption is. It’s a gift to us that we totally don’t deserve, and without it, we couldn’t hope to have earned a smidge of anything— because we can’t do anything in ourselves.

But, like all gifts, it can be rejected. Which is why you have hell.

So, if we’ve agreed that hell is permanent separation from God, even in spite of the Redemption, does it not follow that we can mess up, even a little bit? And even a little bit of messing up is sufficient to separate us from God. Because Nothing unclean can enter heaven. Even if it’s something like choosing to play Farmville, instead of taking care of a baby.

But God, in his mercy, doesn’t allow that misplaced priority to send us to hell, even though Farmville got in the way of me doing my job and serving not just my neighbor, but a little infant who doesn’t know what computer games are, just that I’m sitting three feet away and not giving him what he wants.

So, if I die, and if choosing Farmville over my responsibilities is the only thing on my soul, it will be a very fast purgation. It’s not something I do to myself, but it’s something I choose because God allows it— because you don’t want to stand before God even with Farmville on your soul, with the knowledge that Farmville separates you forever. The cleansing might take place in an instant, even though technically, it’s all outside of time anyways. But it still takes place.

I gotta pay my last penny before I can get out and get to the good stuff. 🙂
 
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The doctrine of purgatory was proclaimed as a dogma of faith by Council of Florence in 1439. Also in the Bible it says nothing about purgatory when people die they go to either - Heaven or Hell.
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You seem to be reading your truncated Bible with your anti-Catholic blinders.
 
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