I’ve had a few topics in mind for the first day of Lent, this one won.

I know we typically pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory during the month of November and throughout the year as loved ones die or as we remember. I only recently learned about the Prayer of St. Gertrude The Great, which Our Lord promised would release 1000 souls from Purgatory each time it is said. The prayer also extends to living sinners.

As a Catholic who was received into the church as an adult, it’s taken me a long time to understand Purgatory (I’m certain I don’t fully), souls in Purgatory, the idea of “offering up” sacrifices and sufferings for souls in Purgatory. But I believe our prayers are tangible and effective. I believe in divine revelation to saints, I believe in the COMMUNION OF SAINTS and I even believe that our own prayers may someday benefit our own souls. That’s a suspension of time and space idea…you know, God’s time is different than our own.

I purchased a prayer card with St. Gertrude’s prayer on it for each of member of my family and I’m dedicating each of us to releasing 40,000 souls during the course of Lent. Do the math, that’s 240,000 souls. It’s such a quick prayer, if we each say it 5 times, that’d be over a million every day.

“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.”

 

Wanna join me? Leave a comment if you think you or your family might participate-or not, either way, your prayers will be heard. One more thing, I’ve also recently been reading about the powerful intercession of the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Leave a comment if any of your prayers have been answered.