DAY 8
Penalty of Damage
MONTH OF NOVEMBER
IN SUFFRAGE OF
THE BLESSED SOULS
OF PURGATORY
Francisco Vitali
For the signal...
INITIAL SENTENCE
O Mary, Mother of mercy: remember the children you have in purgatory and, presenting our suffrages and your merits to your Son, intercede so that he may forgive them their debts and take them out of those darkness into the admirable light of his glory, where they enjoy your sweetest sight and that of your blessed Son.
O glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, intercede together with your Wife before your Son for the souls of purgatory. Amen.
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DAY 8
Meditation
Penalty of Damage
The greatest pain suffered in Purgatory is that of damage, which consists of separation from God. One hundred and a thousand doubled sorrows of meaning, says the Chrysostom cannot be compared with the feeling of appearing unworthy in the eyes of the Divine Majesty and of being discarded from her presence. A soul far from God is an object outside its center; and although it is for a short time, however, being because of it makes its state so bitter that there is no created language that can explain it. And we so often lose God without taking any care of us? It is well seen that we are animated by the senses and made vile slaves of guilt. When a soul is free from the bonds of the body it abstracts, so to speak, from all the senses, it leaves the world with all its faculties, with more force than a serious body is pushed towards its center, it is taken to God, similar to a powerful river that divided in its course into several streams, meeting then in a single cause, it will flow with great impetus into the sea, but if before entering it you find a strong obstacle that stops it, it swells, murmurs, roars and tries to make its way everywhere; such is also the State of the soul in the happy moment of joining God, feeling stopped by the divine justice in Purgatory grieves, undoes, shatters and, restless in her grievances, does not find peace or rest until she reaches the bosom of the sumo good.
We How eager we feel to hear God? The more separated from the world you live, the more you feel this longing, and if we do not experience it in any way, it is an indication that we are in a whole of the world and not of God. Absalom with David forced him to return to court; but he was forbidden at the same time to appear in his presence. Such a prohibition was so sensitive to that ungrateful heart, which preferred exile and invoked death deploring his fate with such bitter crying, that it turned the royal palace into a theater of sadness and pain. Thus the souls of Purgatory were already raised from the exile of the world, they are sure of the glory of Paradise, but because of their imperfections Divine Justice cannot admit them to the beatific vision of their divine face; they are stopped in that place of expiration, and their desires, their sighs and moans are so continuous and deep, that they not only make the vaults of that prison resonate but penetrate to Heaven. Ah! Sometimes also come to our ears to move us to interpose the most fervent offices of sovereign clemency, so that they may be consoled with the sight of their Divine Father.
Prayer
Console, O Lord, those souls who ardently desire to join you. Nature inclines them to you as to its ultimate end, grace directs them to you as to its blessed center; love takes them to you as to the sighed object; to you is impelled by desire as the target of its affections. There is no God for them but for whom they sigh at every moment. Comfort them then, O Lord!, in their ardent desires, comfort them in their incessant sighs by giving them promptly as a prize, in bliss, in crowning their irresistible affection.
Eternal Father, for the most precious blood of Jesus, mercy.
(X3)
V. Do not remember, Lord, my sins.
R. When you come to purify the world in fire.
V. Direct, Lord my God, to your presence my steps.
R. When you come to purify the world in fire.
V. Give them, Lord, eternal rest and let eternal light show for them.
R. When you come to purify the world in fire.
Our Father... (he recites in silence)
V. Libra, Lord, their souls.
R. From the sorrows of hell.
V. Rest in peace.
R. Amen.
V. Lord, listen to our prayer.
R. And our cry comes to you.
Let's pray. Oh my God, of whom it is proper to have compassion and forgiveness: we beg you pleading for the souls of your servants whom you have ordered to migrate from this world, especially for the souls of our relatives, friends and benefactors (they can be named by their proper name), so that you do not leave them in purgatory, but that you order your holy angels to take them and take them to the homeland of paradise, so that, because they waited and believed in you, they do not suffer the sorrows of purgatory, but possess the eternal joys. For Christ our Lord. Amen.
V. Give them, Lord, eternal rest.
R. And shine for them perpetual light.
V. Rest in peace.
R. Amen.
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