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Do You Know THAT CHRISTMAS IS THE Best Time TO OFFER HOLY Mass FOR SOULS?
In a private revelation, JESUS told mystics St. Alphonsus and St. Teresa of Avila that most souls are released from Purgatory during Consecration at Christmas day HOLY MASSES.
As we celebrate the Christmas HOLY MASS to mark JESUS'S advent on earth, He pours out abundant graces to souls in Purgatory to bring them to heaven, free at last of pain and suffering.
+ At the HOLY MASS, we share with JESUS in offering His sacrifice on the Cross, that's why it is the prayer that God loves most. Say your prayer at Consecration when the priest raises the Host and Chalice.
Here is a possible novena to pray leading up to Christmas:
The Novena (using St.Gertrude's prayer) for the holy souls.
1) Prayer of Saint Gertrude (releases souls each time it is said and can be said throughout the year anytime).
"Eternal Father, I offer to Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son Jesus in union with the Masses said throughout the whole world today for the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere; for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home and within my family. Amen."
2) Say the prayer of the Church for the deceased Requiem prayer...
"Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them.. May their Souls and the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace Amen."
3) Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by St. Gertrude...
"Most sacred heart of Jesus open the hearts and minds of sinners to the truth and light of God the Eternal Father. Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for the conversion of sinners and the world."
4) 1 Our Father
1 Hail Mary
1 Glory Be
5) Let us pray:
"Oh Jesus, our Divine Master and Shepherd of Souls, through the powerful intercession of your faithful servant St. Gertrude, we beseech Thee to move the hearts of all sinners who are to die today and are in danger of going to Hell, the grace to repent before God calls them home. Defend and protect all the Catholic churches throughout the world against the powers of evil and grant conversion especially to those who are in error and all the unbelievers who are so dark in their souls and still refuse the light of Your mercy. Deliver these helpless sinners from Your enemies and the evil one.
Grant pardon and deliverance to the holy souls in purgatory especially those who are most abandoned without prayer, our priests and religious and those for whom we now pray (mention names ______________ ). Wipe away the tears from their eyes as they look up to you with sadness longing and waiting helplessly for the moment of their deliverance. Send their guardian angels to console and comfort them as they are being purified in the fire of your Divine Justice. Amen.
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The following are other sources that confirm that most souls are released on Christmas Day.
1.Manuscript of a soul in Purgatory - It was mentioned in approbated revelations to a 19th-century French nun, who was told by a deceased, purgatorial nun (in messages granted an imprimatur) that "on All Souls' Day many souls leave the place of expiation and go to Heaven. Also, by a special grace of God on that day only, all suffering souls, without exception, have a share in the public prayers of the Church, even those who are in the Great Purgatory. "It is not, however, on All Souls' Day that the most go to Heaven. It is on Christmas night" [see: An Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory].
2. Maria Simma an Austrian Mistic was visited by the holy souls. The holy souls have also revealed to Maria that it is on Christmas day that the most souls are released from purgatory and then also Good Friday, Ascension day, All Souls day and the feast of the Assumption.
3. It is mentioned in the Pieta Booklet pg 47...
4. From the Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus Ligouri: St. Denis the Carthusian relates, that on the festivals of the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Mary descends into purgatory, by troops of angels, and releases many souls from their torments.
5. St. Alphonsus Liguori and St. Teresa of Avila revealed that more souls are released on Christmas than any other day of the year.
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