New resolution: begin praying for Holy Souls in purgatory

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New resolution: begin praying for Holy Souls in purgatory
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      Volume 14 Number 11                                                                                      November 2021

New resolution: begin praying for Holy Souls in purgatory
               “November begins with two beautiful days; the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls.
          Holy Mother Church remembers all of her children, to whom she has given the life of Jesus
        through Baptism ...We all know that during this whole month, we give them extra love and care,
                         by praying to them and for them.” -- St. Teresa of Calcutta

   For Catholics, Novem-                                                                                 pray for you for the rest of
ber is the month of the                                                                                  your life. God has worked
Holy Souls in Purgatory.                                                                                 out a marvelous economy
The Catechism teaches:                                                                                   for each segment of the
   “All who die in God’s                                                                                 Church to help the other
grace and friendship but                                                                                 ones.
                                                                                                             The Catechism of the
are indeed assured of
their eternal salvation; but                                                                                                      -
after death, they under-                                                                                 tion, so as to achieve the
                                                                                                         holiness necessary to
achieve the holiness nec-                                                                                enter the joy of heaven,”
essary to enter the joy of                                                                               which is experienced by
heaven.” (CCC 1030)                                                                                      those “who die in God’s
     It is very common for                                                                               grace and friendship, but
many people to make a          rosary, the Divine Mercy        selves. They rely entirely
New Year’s resolution; of-                                     upon the prayers of the                   (CCC 1030). It notes that
ten revolving around diets     Eternal Rest prayer for         Church Militant (us), and
and joining the gym. A bet-    the Holy Souls is a won-        the Church Triumphant                     the elect . . . is entirely
ter resolution to make is to   derful practice to weave        (heaven). Once a soul is                  different from the pun-
begin praying for the Holy     into your daily prayers.        released into heaven by                   ishment of the damned”
Souls in purgatory. Offer-         The souls in purga-         the power of your prayers,                (CCC 1031).
ing Masses, praying the        tory cannot pray for them-      that triumphant saint will                        Continued on next page

   October 25, 2021            prays, little children, feels   from God. Because God
   Message to Marija           the freedom of the chil-        loves and gives His peace
                               dren of God and in joy of       to every creature; and that
   “Dear children!             heart serves for the good       is why He sent me to you
        Return to prayer       for his brother-man.            to help you to grow in holi-
   because who prays is              Because God is love       ness.
   not afraid of the future;   and freedom, therefore,             Thank you for having
   who prays is open to        little children, when they      responded to my call ”.
   life and respects the       want to put you in bonds             Note: These messages are not yet
   life of others; who         and to use you, it is not          recognized by the Catholic Church as
                                                                      having a supernatural origin.
New resolution: begin praying for Holy Souls in purgatory
Fr. Dan                                                                                                  spiritual children to pray
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                                                                                                         for him after his death.
                                      From the Desk of
                                                                                                         He knew the importance
necessary because, as
Scripture teaches, noth-
                                         Fr. Dan                                                         of the prayers for the de-
                                                                                                         ceased.
ing unclean will enter the                                                                                   Please join me in pray-
                                          Fr. Dan Reehil                                                 ing for our dearly departed
presence of God in heav-              National Priest Director
en (Rev. 21:27) and, while                                                                               brothers and sisters:
                                           Radio Maria
we may die with our mor-
tal sins forgiven, there can
still be many impurities in           “Today, I entered into         sin was, even the small-                  Eternal rest grant
                                  the bitterness of the Pas-         est sin, and how much it              to them, O Lord, and
and the temporal punish-          sion of the Lord Jesus. I          tormented the soul of Je-             let perpetual light
ment due to sins that have        suffered in a purely spiri-        sus. I would rather suf-              shine upon them. May
already been forgiven.            tual way. I learned how            fer a thousand hells than             the souls of the faithful
    St. Faustina Kowal-           horrible sin was. God              commit even the smallest              departed, through the
ska wrote in the Diary of         gave me to know the                venial sin.” (Diary, 1016)
Divine Mercy that even                                                                                     mercy of God, rest in
                                  whole hideousness of sin.              St. Padre Pio on his
small venial sins are atro-                                                                                peace. Amen.
                                  I learned in the depths            deathbed asked for all
cious before God.                 of my soul how horrible            his fellow friars and all his

                                      Purgatory targets the need for prayers for the dead
                                                                           People have been wonder-          One of them was St.
                                                                     ing what awaits them after death
                                                                     since the beginning of time. And    died September 17, 1701.
                                                                     although nobody managed to          After the vision of the Holy
                                                                     penetrate the secret, there have    Spirit, he founded the Marian
                                                                     been many people through the        Fathers, an order that aimed
                                                                     ages that could see more – like     at promoting the adoration
                                                                     Fulla Horak, St. Faustina Kow-      of the Immaculate Concep-
                                                                     alska or St. Padre Pio. These       tion of the Most Blessed
                                                                     mystics – people who have           Virgin Mary and interceded
                                                                     been graced by the visits of        particularly for the dead. The
                                                                     souls from Purgatory – are only     memory of those who are no
                                                                     some of the protagonists of         longer with us was particu-
                                                                                            Purgatory.   larly strong in him after the
                                                                                                     -   mystical experience of the
                                                                     ator of Love and Mercy: Faus-       vision of Purgatory and the
                                                                     tina and Two Crowns, which          souls suffering there. He rec-
                                                                     have been appreciated both in       ommended to his brethren:
                                                                     Poland and abroad, tells the        “Pray, brothers, for the souls
                                                                     story of souls living in bodies     in Purgatory, for they suffer
                                                                     and souls that have already left    an unbearable torment”. He
                                                                     this world. It is also a reminder   also emphasized that there
  PURGATORY,                                                     -                                   -   is no greater mercy than the
  atres Oct. 25 & 28, but can be seen on some streaming media        standing theologians and scien-     one shown to the dead.
  like Roku and Hulu. There are several movie titles by the name     tists, who have been studying            For more information or
  of “Purgatory.” Make sure it is the one by Michael Kondrat, cre-   the state of human conscious-       to watch the movie trailer, go
  ator of Love and Mercy: Faustina and Two Crowns.                   ness when the body dies.            to www.purgatorymovie.com.
New resolution: begin praying for Holy Souls in purgatory
Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.
                                               S a i n t s                   LITANY OF

                                                                 St. Augustine, pray for us.                                     By the coming of the Holy Spirit, Lord, save your
Christ, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.              St. Jerome, pray for us.                                        people.
Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.                  St. Martin, pray for us.                                        On the Day of Judgment, Lord, save your people.
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        Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
                                                                 St. Dominic, pray for us.                                       prayer.
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                                                                 St. Catherine, pray for us.                                     Lord, hear our prayer.
        Saint Joseph, Protector of the Church,                       Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, pray for us.                   Jesus, I trust in you.
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St. Matthew, pray for us.                                        your people.                                                    Grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed,
        All you holy Martyrs, pray for us.                           Lord, be merciful.                                     sins of the world, spare us, Lord.
St. Simon, pray for us.                                          From the snares of the devil, Lord, save your people. Lord, hear our prayer.
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                                                                                                Lord,  save  your  people.       Have    mercy     on  us.
        Saint Bernard, pray for us.                                                                                         Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
St. Stephen, pray for us.                                        By the mystery of your Holy Incarnation, Lord, save
        Saint Dominic, pray for us.                                  By your Incarnation,                                   Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
St. Lawrence, pray for us.                                       your people.                                                    Christ, hear us, Christ, graciously hear us
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St. Vincent,   Francis,
                  for us. pray for us.                               Lord,    deliver    us,  we   pray.
                                                                 By Your Coming, Lord, save your people.                    Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
                                                                                                                                 Lord Jesus, hear our prayer Lord Jesus, hear
        All you  holy  Priests
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                                                                                                                                 Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on
St. Cosmas   andholy
        All you   Damian,  pray and
                       Monks     for us.
                                       Hermits,                      By the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
                                                                 people.
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        Holy Martyrs,
                                                                                                                                 us.
              for us. pray for us.                               By Lord,
                                                                     Your Cross     andus,
                                                                              deliver     Passion,   Lord, save your people.
                                                                                              we pray.
                                                                 By Your Death and Burial, Lord, save your people.               Christ, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy
St. Sylvester, pray for us.                                      By Your Holy Resurrection, Lord, save your people.              on us.
St. Gregory, pray for us.                                        By Your wonderful Ascension, Lord, save your peo- Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on
St. Ambrose, pray for us.                                        ple.                                                            us.
New resolution: begin praying for Holy Souls in purgatory
Results of Battle Ready Fall Mariathon
    A big thank you to    es, which contained holy       together these very
all of the donors who     water, a Rosary, two med-      special boxes and to
called in with pledges    als and two prayer cards,      bless them with a spe-
and donations dur-        and a vial of holy oil with    cial exocism blessing,”
ing the Fall Mariathon    an exorcism blessing,          said Fr. Dan. “When
held Oct.11-16.           was offered to listeners       used properly, the con-            TUESDAY
    A total of $66,000    who made a $40 a month         tents of this little box            NOV. 30
was raised during the     pledge or more. All con-       can be very powerful.”
six-day     fundraising   tents were blessed by Fr.
event.
                                                                                           Chose Radio Maria
                          Dan Reehil.
    A highlight of the        A f t e r
event was offering the    the     initial
Battle Ready boxes        40     boxes
put together by Fr.       were quickly
Dan Reehil, our na-       claimed, Fr.
tional priest director,   Dan       was
and host of his popu-     able to offer
lar program Battle        10 more.
Ready.                        “I   was
    The wooden box-       happy to put

                                                         Fr. Dan Reehil to speak at
                                                         Boston Marian Conference
                                                            Fr. Dan Reehil, na-      Wahlberg, executive di-
                                                        tional priest director for   rector of the Mark Wahl-
                                                        Radio Maria USA, will be     berg Youth Foundation;
                                                        one of the guest speak-      Tim Francis, founder of
                                                        ers at the Boston Marian     “You Shall Believe;” Kath-
                                                        Conference to be held        leen McCarthy, a world-
                                                        Nov. 13-14 at the Marriott   renowned Catholic evan-
                                                        Quincy Hotel in Quincy,      glist; Ki Morrissey, pro-life
                                                        Massachusettes.              speaker and adoption ad-
                                                            In addition to speak-    vocate; Fr. Jozo Grbes,
                                                        ing Saturday morning         custos of the Croatian
                                                        after the opening Mass       Franciscans of the US and
                                                        where he will be the cel-    Canada; and inspirational
                                                        ebrant, Fr. Dan will also    testimonies from couples
                                                        lead Adoration on Sunday     Artie & Judy Boyle and
                                                        from 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.        John & Colleen Willard,
                                                            Other speakers in-       and Guy Murphy.
                                                        clude Cardinal Sean              Music will be provided
                                                        O’Malley, archbishop of      by Anna Nuzzo.
                                                        Boston; Ivan Dragicevic,         For more information,
                                                        one of the six visionar-     go to www.totallyyours.
                                                        ies from Medjugorje; Jim     org. or call 630-279-8424.
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                          Dec. 8, 2020 - Dec. 8, 2021

                                                            Medjugorje visionary Ivan to speak Nov. 20
           Prayer to St. Joseph                                          Medjugorje visionary Ivan Dragicevic
                                                                                 will be speaking Nov. 20
   Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer,                                       at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church,
   Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.                                   444 Metairie Road, Metairie, La. 70005
   To you God entrusted his only Son;
   in you Mary placed her trust;                           Saturday, November 20, 2021
   with you Christ became man.                             4:00 p.m. Parish Vigil Mass
                                                           5:10 p.m. Break Refreshments
   Blessed Joseph, to us too,                              5:40 p.m. Talk by Ivan
                                                           6:10 p.m. Rosary
   show yourself a father
                                                           6:40 p.m. Apparition & Sharing
   and guide us in the path of life.
                                                                     of Message
   Obtain for us grace, mercy, and courage,
   and defend us from every evil. Amen.                                       For more information, go to
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                                                              Roy Schoeman                                                                                                         Depalma                         for the World                          Dr. Patrick DiVietri
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