Prayer of St. Gertrude the Great - A prayer which would release 1,000 souls from purgatory each time it is said. "Eternal father, I offer you 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. - Amen"

Let us remember and pray for the souls in purgatory especially for those souls who have no one to pray for them.

It is a holy and salvific thought, that of praying for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sins.

Settle your accounts with your enemies while you are still in this world. If you do not, your enemies will deliver you into the hands of the Judge and the Judge will give you over to his minister, who will through you in jail from which you will not be freed until your debt has been paid, down to the last farthing.

Our Lord revealed to Saint Bridget:

The Seven our Fathers and Hail Marys In honor of His Holy wounds and His precious blood

"Know that I will grant the following five graces to those who recite every day for twelve years (or until their death, should they die before):

1. They will avoid Purgatory.
2. They will be numbered amongst the martyrs, as though they had shed their blood for the faith.
3. I will maintain the souls of three of their children (or relatives) in a state of santifying grace.
4. The souls of their relatives, up to four generations, will avoid Hell.
5. They will know the date of their death one month in advance.

Pope Innocent X confirmed this revelation and added that those who practice this devotion will liberate a soul from Purgatory on Good Fridays. How many graces can we thus obtain by accepting to dedicate 10 minutes each day to the Holy Wounds of our Lord...

Shocking, but True:

In 1848 there lived in london a 29 year old widow, quite rich and very worldy. Among the regular guests in her home was a young lord of questionable conduct. Late one night, this young widow was in bed reading a book when suddenly, a bright light started to fill her room with growing intensity. Astonished and quite worried, she saw the door to her room slowly open. The young lord who had been her acomplice in revelry stood there, all in flames. Before she could utter a word, he grabbed her wrist and shouted, "there truly is a hell where one burns! Know this for certain!"

The searing pain in her wrist caused the young widow to pass out. When she came to about 30 minutes later, she called for her chamber maid. Upon entering the room, the servent could smell the strong odor of burned flesh. She noticed the burn on her mistress' wrist, which was seared to down to the bone. That wound had the distinct print of a man's hand. She also noticed that the carpet showed the imprint of a man's foot from the doorway to the bed and that those footprints had burned the carpet.

The next day, the widow learned that the young lord had died that very night...