Sister Mary of the Cross: "Where is Purgatory? It comes in a small place? "
It is located near the center of the earth to hell (as you have seen one day after Holy Communion). The souls there are, as if the place was narrow, given the multitude that is there, because there are thousands and thousands of souls, but how much space is needed for a soul? Every day there come several thousand, and most of them remain from thirty to forty years, others much longer and still others are not. I say this according to the calculations of the earth, for here is something else. Ah, if you knew if you knew the Purgatorio, and when you think it is their own fault that you are! I am here for eight years. I seem to have been ten thousand years! ...
Oh, my God! Reported exactly this to your Father ... What he learns from me this place of suffering in order to do more to know in the future. He may have convinced yourself that it is beneficial devotion to the souls in Purgatory.
The good Lord grants more often thanks to the mediation of Codest souls of those who suffer the same saints. When he wants to get something with more security, ask your preference for the souls who most loved the Blessed Virgin and that, consequently, this good Mother wants to leave, and he will tell you if it finds you well. There are also not of the souls in Purgatory are staying properly said. So I, during the day, I accompany you wherever you go, but when you rest at night, suffer more, I find myself in Purgatory. Other souls are sometimes their Purgatory in the places where they have sinned, at the foot of the holy altar where the Blessed Sacrament is kept, but, wherever they are, always bring with them their suffering, a little 'less intense, however, that in the real Purgatory.
The Father (spiritual) had good reason to tell you never to seek anything but the holy will of God in everything you do. This will provide for you the happiness you see his will in everything that happens to you, sorrows and joys. Everything comes from Jesus anyway. Oh! Be good, doubly good, to please God, to him that is so good with you! Keep your eyes fixed on Him the soul to prevent the slightest desire. Go even further, in order to please Him. The more you try to make him, the more He will do it to you. God does not allow itself to be outdone in generosity, on the contrary! He always gives more than he should be given. Therefore, be clever to spend for his sake and for His glory.
The Englishman Who was drowned at Mont Saint-Michel has gone directly to heaven. She had the required contrition at death and at the same time the baptism of desire. Everything went well for the intervention of St. Michael. Happy accident!
As the Father who is retiring, San Michele has not been satisfied, but the good Lord has left everyone's freedom. He wants his service only to people who so freely the gift without ever looking back.
Tell Father P. by the good God who followed with great courage in all he has done to him, but that it is prudent, that do not involve more than his strength. I pray, as I said before, all its intentions, and even for him, as also for you.
Pius IX went straight to Heaven, his purgatory on earth was done.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "How MP know that you went straight to Heaven, since you have not seen passing through Purgatory? "
The good Lord made me know and also that it is he, for his goodness, lets me know that I ask, when it has not seen and experienced for myself.
justice of God holds us in Purgatory, it is true, and we deserve it, but be sure that his mercy and his father's heart do not leave us there without any consolation. We earnestly desire the full union with Jesus, but He wants almost like us. On earth, He often communicated in a way close to some souls (as some want to hear) and welcomes to reveal its secrets. The souls who receive his favors are those that seek to be his welcome in all their conduct and who live and breathe only for Jesus and please Him.
there are souls in Purgatory very guilty but repentant, and, despite the sins to be expiated, are confirmed in grace and can not sin: they are perfect. Well, as they purify the soul in the place of atonement, she understands better God, indeed, both are better understood, but without seeing each other, because then there would be no Purgatory. If in Purgatory did not know God more than on land, our suffering would not be so large nor so our atrocious torture, what is the Our main torment is the absence of Him who is the sole object of our desires so persistent!
Sister Mary of the Cross: "And when a soul is destined to have a more beautiful place in heaven, no purgatory in a larger number of grace that not many others?"
course, plus a 'soul is destined to occupy a high place in Heaven and, thereby, to better know their God, they are also more extensive his knowledge and his intimate union with Him in the place of atonement. Everything here is proportionate to the merits.
The three friends are VP's in heaven a long time.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "Well, what happened to the prayers that the Father P. has done for them? "
People who are in heaven and on earth which can please have Codest prayers for the souls that want to apply. It is very sweet to the souls of this world to see relatives or friends do not forget them on the ground, although they no longer have need of prayer. In return, they are not ungrateful.
reviews of God are very different from those of the living on earth. He takes into account the temperament, character, of what you do for sheer carelessness or malice. To him, who knows the bottom of our hearts, it is not difficult to see what happens (in souls), Jesus is very good, but nonetheless also very fair!
Sister Mary of the Cross: "What is the distance between the earth and we live in Purgatory?"
Purgatory is in the center of the globe.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "The earth itself is not perhaps a purgatory?"
Among the people who live there, some you do so entirely by voluntary penance or accepted: such persons after their death , go immediately to heaven, others I'll begin, because the earth is certainly a place of suffering, But these souls, not having enough generosity, go to the end Purgatory Purgatory in their true.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "The sudden and unexpected deaths are a justice or mercy of God?"
This kind of justice are sometimes dead, sometimes a mercy. Once a person is shy, and God knows that it is prepared and ready to appear before him, to spare the fears that could prove the last moment, the door out of this world with a sudden death. Sometimes even the good Lord takes souls through his righteousness. They are not necessarily permanently lost, but private or receiving the last sacraments in a hurry without having prepared the last step, their purgatory is much more is prolonged and more painful. Others, having filled up the measure of their crimes and having remained deaf to all the graces, the good Lord takes away from the earth so there cause even more vengeance.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "The fire of Purgatory is a fire like that of the earth?"
Yes, except that the fire of Purgatory is a cleansing of God's justice and that the earth is well tolerated compared to that of Purgatory. It is a shadow in comparison to large braziers of divine justice.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "How then can burn a soul?"
For a fair
permission of God, the soul that was the real culprit, because the body does not obey that (in fact, what harm do you see a dead body?), The body suffers as if he suffered.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "Tell me, what is the agony and after? The soul is in light or darkness? In what form is pronounced the sentence? "I had no agony, you know, but I can tell you that in that last crucial moment the devil to wreak his anger around the dying. The good Lord, to make acquire more merit to the souls, those who suffer can last test, those last fights: the strong and generous souls, in order to have a place even more beautiful in Heaven, they are frequently at the end of their lives and anxieties of death, this terrible struggle against the angel of darkness (you do you have witnessed ), but come out victorious. The good God does not allow a soul, which is totally to him in your life, perish in those last moments. The people who loved the Blessed Virgin, who have relied their entire lives, many thanks received from her in recent fights. The same is also true for those that have been devoted to St. Joseph, St. Michael's or some other saint. So above all, as I told you, we are happy to have an intercessor with God in that painful time. There are quiet souls who die without experiencing anything of what I said. The good Lord has his plans in everything He does or allows anything to the well-being of everyone.
How to tell you and describe what happens after the agony? You can not understand it well without being passed. Nevertheless I will try to explain as best I can. The soul, in leaving the body, is all lost, all invested (so to speak) from God, it is in a light that in the blink of an eye sees all his life and, therefore, that it deserves. Herself in this vision so clearly pronounced its ruling. The soul does not see God, but is destroyed by his presence. If you soul as I was guilty and that, consequently, has earned the Purgatorio, it is so oppressed under the weight of the sins that remain to be expiated, which by itself is sinking in Purgatory. Then only we can understand the good God, his love for souls and disgrace which is the sin in the eyes of his Divine Majesty. San Michele is there when the soul leaves the body, I saw him alone and see all the souls. He is like the witness and the executor of divine justice. I also saw my guardian angel. This is for you to understand how it can be said that San Michele leads the souls in Purgatory ... because you do not take a soul, but it is also true in the sense that he is there, present at the execution of the award. Everything that happens in the world is a mystery to you.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "And when it comes to a soul that goes directly to heaven?"
For this soul, the union began with Jesus continues to death here is heaven, but ' union of Heaven is much more intimate than that of the earth.
Because today you have done so with God? He is not pleased with your conduct. He is so good to you, this is your ingratitude. And why should investigate the conduct of others? Be careful only to yours: that is enough. Not everyone has the same head, and if you had had to lose in the seven years that I speak to you, after all the fears had already long this would take place. Rest assured, therefore, and do not act anymore as it is today!
you good reason not to love ecstasy. Of course, one must accept when God sends them, but He does not want you want. These are not things that lead to Heaven. A mortified life, humble, is more to be desired and much safer. It is true that many saints have had revelations and ecstasy, but this was a reward that God gave them after a long struggle and a life of renunciation, or even because they wanted to use them for great things in view of his glory, and all was done without noise, without ostentation, in the silence of prayer, and, when they were discovered, all remained confused and was talking about obedience.
The good God has crushed in the past but premunitevi of patience and be very brave because it will crush you again in the future.
Tell the Mother Superior of the meetings that if the anime character and temperament of Sister X. .., be careful and do not listen to everything that would even tell her.
regard to what I say, be quiet. Here's how one can know that there is a grace granted by God Those with good reach and will flock to you like a storm that surprises you in the middle of a beautiful day when the sky seems almost serene. Then you should not fear that she has tried to get them; them no thought. You have seen this several times. The thing is quite different when it comes to you with credit granted by Jesus, but instead are merely the fruit of an imagination that has worked hard to produce them. These were due to be feared, because often the devil s'inframmette and profits of a weak brain, of a weak temperament, in an opinion not too straight, then he deceives those poor souls who, moreover, do not commit sin; listen to the advice provided for people who lead them, and I can attest that there are many in today's world. The devil does so in order to fall into ridicule the religion!
Few people love God as He wants. They believe they seek the good Lord, they seek themselves and contemplate a holiness that is not true!
Sister Mary of the Cross: "Tell me, therefore, is that true holiness?"
you well know, but, as you wish, I repeat, as I have, in fact, have said more times: the true sanctity of denying all day, living sacrifice, in being able to constantly put aside 1'io human, in leaving work from God as He so wishes, to receive the graces that come from His goodness, with a deep humility and recognize unworthy, in keeping as much as possible in the holy presence of God in making all its shares under its gaze divine, not looking to him as a witness of their efforts, and as the reward also in all the other things that I told you. This is the holiness that Jesus wants and needs from the souls who wish to be solely his own and live his life. The rest is illusion.
Some souls are serving their purgatory on earth through suffering, others by love, because love really also his martyrdom. The soul, who really tries to love Jesus, perceives that, with all its efforts, does not love what you want, and this is a continuous martyrdom for it, caused only love and not without great pain! It is, as I said, a little 'state of a soul in Purgatory, which is thrown continuously towards the One who is his only desire, and that he sees at the same time rejected because his atonement is not complete.
Ask the Mother Superior to read what I say from time to time in place of reading. Take one day each week, on Thursday for example, because what good writing, if not ever read again (as you wrote)? Would end by forgetting, and not to do this I tell you, but that will boost profits.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "If I had not talked to any of the you told me when you listen to, what would have been the result? You know that I had great desire to keep everything for myself! "
You were free to keep everything to yourself, but if you had not spoken, I would have advised you to do so, because God has never given that the perfection of some come directly from Heaven. Since they live on earth, God wants to perfect on earth ends following the advice that allows the data are for that purpose. So you have done well to show what it costs so much to say. Moreover, none of this comes from you, and God, who directs everything for the good of those he loves, he knows at the same time to draw his glory.
November-December 1879. - The sister of N. ... is in Purgatory, where much suffering. The Rev. Father can ease his pain by offering it to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
The old sinner was saved by the mercy of God, like so many others. It is in great Purgatory.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "The day and the eighth of the Dead bring joy and cause numerous releases in Purgatory?"
The Day of the Dead, many souls leave the place of atonement for the Sky and, for a great grace of God, that day just all the souls in purgatory, without exception, participate in the benefit of the public prayers of the holy Church, even those of the great Purgatory. However, the easing of sanctions and each soul is in proportion to its merits. Each receive more, others less so. Nevertheless, all feel the effects Of this exceptional grace. Many poor souls in purgatory, for God's justice, that this one does not get cool during the long years they spend in Purgatory. However, no salt in the Day of the Dead to Heaven the greatest number of souls, but on Christmas Eve.
There are many things I could tell you, but I do not have permission. It is you need to question me. Then I can answer.
I am very comforted by the effective prayer of the Rev. Father. Tell him I thank him for his and what he has to do for the love of my intentions. I always pray for him, as I said. I hope to do even more when I'm in heaven. Tell him that I know that he prays for me and the same goes for the other souls in Purgatory. For a license to the good God, this is more of a pain for them, because the prayers that are made according to their intention are not always applicable to them. The prayers of the earth, in Purgatory, you receive only as much as God wants every soul receives according to his disposition. It is an added pain to others to apply to such poor souls to see that the prayers that are made for their release are not applied to them, but to others. Few souls receive prayers, most are abandoned, or without I remember one prayer or one of the world.
regard to time of our liberation, we know nothing. If we knew the end of our suffering, this would be a relief, a joy for us, but no! Let us know that our pains are reduced, that our union becomes more intimate, but that day (according to the calculations of the earth, because here there are days) we will be reunited with him, we ignore it altogether; this is a secret of God . The souls in Purgatory know the future only as much as God can give them and wants to know. In proportion to their merits, some souls have more knowledge of the other, but all these things about what the future may benefit cause, unless there is an interest the glory of God and the good of some soul? No wonder the devil and his followers sometimes provide around the future, the knowledge that come true. The devil is a spirit, consequently, has a lot more tricks and knowledge that any person on earth, except some saints that God illumines by its light. He wanders everywhere looking to hurt, see what happens in the world and, because of his sagacity, of things that can easily foresee then you realize: this is the only explanation. Woe to those who become its slaves with consult, it is a pity that this very sorry to the good God
Sister Mary of the Cross: "The souls can sometimes go wrong? God can allow this? "
.. Yes, as to things not existing, but those happen, but there is no imperfection in it for them. God himself does not seem to change often the order of his designs? [1] occurred in this way: could it be that God in his justice, will punish a kingdom, a province, a person: it is the intention which He manifests, but if some people of that kingdom, of that province through prayer or other means disarm his justice, God will forgive all or decrease the punishment according to the predictions of infinite wisdom. Often allows that major events are predicted in advance, which makes them known to some souls so that they prevent and arrest his revenge: his mercy is so great that He does not punish, if not to the extremes. So about the person, which one day I have spoken then and there I did not say things as they happened. However, it was precisely all that the good Lord it made me know then, but because it changes a bit 'conduct, the good Lord only half of the inflicted punishment that was reserved if it had remained under the same provisions. Here's how it may sometimes seem to change.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "There are many Protestants saved?"
to the mercy of God, there are a number of Protestants who are saved, but their Purgatory last long and is strict for many. It is true that they did not abuse because like many Catholics, but neither had the graces of the Sacraments and other famous rescue of the true religion, which makes their expiation is prolonged for a long time in purgatory.
speak more softly than usual, so that you, eight days, talk to God a voice too low in psalmody. When you speak in a louder voice, I will too.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "In Purgatory know the persecution of the Church which is the subject? Do you know the term? "know that the Church is persecuted and pray for his triumph, but when that happens? I do not know the ... It may be that some souls to know it! As for me I do not know. The souls in Purgatory are not only employed in their sorrows, they pray a lot for the great interest of the good God, for people who shorten their suffering. Praise and thank our Lord of his infinite mercy for them, because some of them the space that separates the purgatory of hell was very small and very nearly did not fall into the abyss. Consider then how great is the recognition of these poor souls to Satan so torn.
I can not explain how we no longer see the earth as you do, this can not be understood except when the soul left the body, because then the land that she has left, leaving it to his body, not seem more than a point compared to the unlimited horizons of eternity that is unfolding for you.
should not look after "that if they tell you?". The true merit of a soul is not to blame the patient received it a bit 'worthy, but patiently to receive those who did not deserve, especially when he did everything in his power to make the best possible as The are accused.
I get more relief from your last action done in a large union with Jesus, who has a vocal prayer, because what God hears? Everything you do with the inner spirit. The more intimate is the union of soul with Him, the more He gives everything he asks of soul intimately united with Jesus is the master of his heart. Thus tend to this union a long time that Jesus expects of you. You want to please Him? That's the only way: to acquaint you more with his heart to pay close attention to the slightest whim of his divine will. He may need to turn around and rioters as he pleases and that, ever, encounters resistance on your part. When you come to this, then you will see and understand his goodness. Do
serious attention to work for God alone. Always seek Him only as witnesses to your actions. Similarly, prior to any action, beware of the brooding stuff like this: "I will do this to please that person, if I do this at that way, I will agree to such a person." The good God does not like these human reasoning by anyone and even less from you. Directed solely towards the end of your intention to please your Jesus, and Him alone. If, in so doing, make pleasant thing to someone, the better. If the opposite happens, too bad! The good Lord will be pleased; This should be everything for you.
December 8, 1879, at 2 - Immaculate Conception
Alas! how many lives seem full of good works and death, it will be empty ... because all the good things in appearance, all the blatant actions, all that seemed irreproachable conduct, everything that Jesus did not only for what purpose. We wanted to figure shine, go looking for the exact obligations of religion, a religious faithful to the rule, this is the only motive of so many lives. And in another life, here, what a disappointment! If you knew how few people acting on God alone, how few do all their deeds to God alone ... Alas! how much regret do you prepare to the point of death, where you will not be blinded, alas! If you reflect sometimes eternity! What is life compared to that day that will have no evening for the elect, that evening will not have day to the wicked?
We love everything on earth, people attach themselves to everything but to Him who alone ought to have our love and to whom we refuse it. The Jesus of the tabernacle waiting hearts that love Him and finds none. Just one in a thousand who loves him as you should love him! Love him you; risarciteLo so guilty of this indifference that exists in the world!
Sister Mary of the Cross: "But in Purgatory, you love it?"
course, but our love is a repair, and if the land I had loved as we should, we would not be so numerous, there are so many souls in the place of atonement.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "In heaven Jesus is loved?"
In Heaven loves you very much. There everything is corrected, but even this is not that Jesus desires. He wants to be loved on earth, on earth, where he destroys in every tabernacle, so 1'avvicinarLo easier, and you do not. You pass a church with more indifference than in front of a public monument. If at times you enter the holy place, is more for offend the divine prisoner who lives with his coldness, with bad attitude, with prayers made in haste, without attention, to tell him that a friendly word, and a friendly word of gratitude for his goodness to us.
Tell the Rev. Father P. that God expects from him the love that He so rarely encountered, from him that every day is approaching so close to Jesus, who receives it in his heart. Oh! tell him that, in those blessed moments, shelters with her tenderness the indifference of so many ungrateful, that his heart yearns for love before Jesus in the Eucharist, especially for its priests who, like him, have the same happiness and dealing with the sacred mysteries heart of ice, which remain as cold as marble hearth before this love, which does not have an affectionate word to say to Jesus in her union with God is more intimate every day, so be prepared for the great graces that Jesus reserve.
I told you that there are some souls who do their purgatory at the foot of the altar. They are not there as a punishment for the sins they committed in the Church, those sins which directly offend Jesus in the tabernacle, are extremely severe punishment in Purgatory. Therefore, the souls that are there to worship, there are quite a reward for their devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Sacramento and their respectful demeanor in the holy place. They suffer less if that were true in Purgatory, and Jesus, that they contemplate with the eyes of faith and at the same time, soften them with his invisible presence the pains they suffer.
January 1880. - On Christmas Eve, thousands of souls have left the place of atonement for heaven, but many remained and I am one of them. Sometimes I say that the perfection of a soul requires a very long time, and it is true, there is also surprising that, despite many prayers, I remain so long without being able to enjoy the vision of the good God Alas! the perfection of a soul in Purgatory is not advancing more quickly than the earth, and there are some souls, and is the smallest number, which only a few venial sins to be expiated, they do not stay long in Purgatory. Some well-made prayers and sacrifices in the short free time. But when it comes to souls like me - and this is the case for almost all! - Who have spent a lifetime almost nothing, dealing with little or no means of their salvation, we must, if so, to start their lives in the place of atonement, we must start again to improve his soul, to love, to desire him who does not loved it enough on the ground.
is why the liberation of souls is sometimes wait so long. The good Lord has also made me a great favor by allowing me to be able to ask for prayers. What I did not deserve that, without this divine condescension, I would have stayed here, like most, years and years!
Sister Mary of the Cross: The Religious and the others of the same family have relations with each other? "
In Purgatory, as in Heaven, the Religious of the same family are not always together, no souls all deserve the same punishment or the same reward. However, we recognize in Purgatory. You can also, when God allows it, have mutual relations.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "You can get a prayer, a thought from a deceased friend and let him know that you remember the Serbian him?" You can
here to convey memories of the land, but not very useful because, as I have said, the souls in Purgatory know and know the people who interest them on earth. Sometimes God also allows you to receive a prayer, a warning, advice ... So, what I have said many times about St. Michael's, came from him what I told you to your spiritual father came from the good God All commissions that many times you gave me to another world I have always done, but all these things are subordinate to divine will.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "The faults of each are known to all in Purgatory, as will the final decision? "
In Purgatory, generally do not know the faults of others, however, except when God allows certain about souls, for his designs, but the smaller the number of those to whom he is acting in this way.
Sister Mary of the Cross: "Have you of God a more perfect knowledge of our own?"
Ah, what a question! But certainly, we know him much better and much more The love! Alas! just that here because our greatest torment. On earth is not known what the good Lord There he gets an idea according to their own narrow views, but we leave in our mud wrap, where nothing hinders the freedom of our soul, oh! then we know the good God, his goodness, his mercy, his love! After such a clear vision, this need with such a large assemblage (with Him), the soul tends to God, this is his life and, increasingly, it is rejected because it is not pure enough. Here is our suffering: the hardest, most unripe. Oh! if we were allowed to return to earth, after knowing the good Lord, what a life to lead! But useless regrets ... and yet the earth does not think such things, you live by the blind. Eternity is not under any account. The land, which is not whether not a place of transition and that receives only the bodies, which, in turn, become the ground too, is the only object towards which almost all you want, and you do not think the sky! And Jesus and his love are forgotten!
[1] Codest way of speaking is consistent with the human language can only see that with time sequences and changes ... But there is no time for God and therefore no inheritance and no change: its decrees provided for and secured from all eternity, are immutable and eternal as He.
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