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Purgatory
This
is the touching prayer that the poor souls in Purgatory address their friends on
Earth, begging, imploring their help, in accents of the deepest anguish.
Alas! many are deaf to their prayers.
It is
incomprehensible how some Catholics, even those who are otherwise devout,
shamefully neglect the souls in Purgatory.
It would almost seem that they do not believe in Purgatory.
Days
and weeks and months pass without their having a Mass said for the holy souls!
Seldom too, do they hear Mass for them, seldom do they pray for them,
seldom do they think of them! Whilst
they are enjoying the fullness of health and happiness, busy with their work,
engrossed with their amusements, the poor souls are suffering unutterable
agonies on their beds of flame.
What
is the cause of this awful callousness? Ignorance,
gross, inexplicable ignorance.
People
do not realize what Purgatory is. They
have no conception of its dreadful pains and they have no idea of the long years
that souls are detained in these awful fires. As a result they take little, or no care to avoid Purgatory
themselves, and worse still, they cruelly neglect the poor souls who are already
there and who depend entirely on them for help.
Dear Reader, peruse this little book with care and you will bless the day that it fell into your hands.
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