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PURGATORY
The saying goes, my brothers, saying that we know surely
"Who tells me, is my friend." I wanted to be your friend,
talk to you about an eternal truth that nowadays if you want to reject,
but as it is eternal truth and no one can erase.
And the truth is this: Purgatory. The existence of Purgatory.
The Mercy of God cleanses and prepares the soul to heaven.
The thoughts are taken from a little booklet of EDM on Purgatory.
One of the most serious faults and the most misunderstood among us Catholics Portuguese,
is the abandonment of our dead.
As a family member falls sick, lavishing care,
urge repeated physician visits,
not hesitate to seek the best and most expensive drugs,
and realize that everything is able to more dedication and unveiling more affectionate love.
There are no limits to our generosity when it comes to the body.
Patient dies. There is an explosion of pain, sincere, profound, no doubt, but just sometimes immoderate.
It is the burial with funeral pomp, with the assistance of an immense number of people
no friends dare to be absent - cover the coffin with wreaths of flowers very rich.
We spare no expense.
For a few weeks remain expressions of grief:
visited the cemetery, we received visits of condolence.
Past but more weeks, we returned to our normal life.
All kindly do their best to distract us, lest we think in our distress.
It's beautiful, and thus proceed well. What good is pain, which serves the immoderate grief?
But unfortunately, God is put aside
all this time, we did the soul of the sick baby? Little or nothing.
There we prayed, because we occupied in completely and entirely with medicines and physicians,
fears and hopes.
We never crossed my mind to have some Masses to pray for the improvement of the patient!
And yet God and God alone gives life and health, God and only God can give virtue and efficacy to the medicines.
Well it is true, and it is our duty, call your doctor and apply remedies.
But it is simple madness to put part of God, the author of life.
Our obligation is to implore God manifests aid
with fervent prayers and constant, especially
pray that sending Mass is supremely efficient way to move the heart of the Lord.
How is it possible that we know the tremendous value of the Mass,
forget her in the squeaking of our lives, when it is more necessary than ever?
Worse yet, with a temerity cruel, we postpone the administration of the Sacraments late, too late
at great risk of the patient die without them or receiving them when they no longer can produce their results,
sin that cries to heaven.
But God instituted these sacraments expressly for healing,
relief and comfort of patients and produce results as long as they unfailingly,
of course, that the cure is not against the eternal salvation of the sick.
How many people are alive because of health and well received
and with time these salutaríssimos Sacraments, and many now lie in cemeteries,
they would still be well and happy in their homes if they had received the Holy Oils.
If, however, God provides for the extension of life would not do for the good of the patient
or that would be the cause of their eternal damnation, we ask, they serve the sacraments in this case?
Serve a lot. They give comfort and relief to the patient, dispel fear,
understate the extraordinary spirit of the dying,
away from the devil and his satanic temptations - raging at the last minute, truly
and pledge to be holy and happy death.
Moreover, as stated by Thomas Aquinas and St. Albertus Magnus,
when the last sacraments are received properly and with time,
prepare the soul to enter immediately in heaven, perhaps even without passing through Purgatory.
Invaluable free!
When we put off because of over administration of the sacraments for our patients:
1 - private as possible our dear father,
our beloved mother, brother or son, for many years.
2 - We deny you the extraordinary graces just mentioned.
3 - For our sakes, there are long years in Purgatory.
If that procedure, lack of a sacred duty, commit a crime that cries to heaven;
and as the blood of Cain, that seeks revenge, God.
It is a cruel abandonment
The patient dies and is already in purgatory, suffering tortures severíssimos.
Never have so much of our aid. Ask, beg our votes.
And we? We range in our pain. - We have no head (say so) to pray,
we do not have time or energy for that, crazy as we are with this crazy affliction!
And the poor soul continues to suffer waiting for our votes do not give it.
It is good and natural before the death of us ladies were crying bitter tears;
human is to miss the loss of dear sick, but tears and pain
lead us to abandon the deceased in their dire need, are false and cruel.
The more sincere is the pain it causes us to pray.
The pain that amuses our attention from the excruciating suffering of our dead is illusory.
At the moment the imperative duty is to pray and pray hard and earnestly,
Masses to pray is to have as before, and not one or two, but all that we have to pray.
Spare no expense for the disease, because we hesitate now
the giving of alms insignificant for the Masses that are a thousand times more necessary and urgent
for the soul than the expenses we made very generous to the body?