Have you lost a loved one who passed away, or know someone who has? Prayers for souls in purgatory can help them! While we can derive great comfort from the hope that our loved ones are enjoying Eternal Life with God, it never hurts to pray for their souls in any case. 

 

In purgatory, the souls of many of those who have died in God’s grace undergo purification so that they may enter heaven.

 

The Prayer of St. Gertrude, below, is one of the most famous of the prayers for souls in purgatory. St. Gertrude the Great was a Benedictine nun and mystic who lived in the 13th century. According to tradition, our Lord promised her that 1000 souls would be released from purgatory each time it is said devoutly. 

 

 

Eternal Father, I offer Thee 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.

 

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; And let perpetual light shine upon  them.

                                          May they rest in peace.   Amen

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                                                         Fatima and the Five First Saturdays

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Our Blessed Lady said to Lucy at Fatima, "I promise to help at the hour of death with the graces needed for salvation, whoever, on the First Saturday of Five Consecutive Months, shall confess and receive Holy Communion, recite Five Decades of the Rosary, keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the Mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation for me."