Social Justice has been a platform of the Vatican in our world for some time. To address nations in this regard is a prerequisite for the Pope as head of the Vatican State. But I agree that matters concerning the soul are a far greater need in this world of faithlessness. Conversion, conversion, conversion! Repent and believe the Gospel! No one can come to the Father other than through Jesus Christ the Lord! Our eternal destiny is at stake! Lord have Mercy! Christ hear us! Christ graciously hear us!
Cardinal Cordileone comments on the TLM: Cordileone said he is concerned that if the restrictions remain in place, people who want a traditional form of worship will feel they “have no choice” other than “to go outside of officially approved institutions and communities.” “They will do that. So I think thereʼs concern for unity on both sides. One, if the restrictions are in place, people will then go to these other groups that are not in full communion with the See of Rome,” he said. “But if theyʼre allowed generously, we have to make sure that the people who access the Mass are in full communion in terms of their belief and their acceptance of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council,” he said.
When I say my rosary my main petition is always for the souls most in danger of hell. My second is for the most neglected souls in purgatory. I used to pray for the souls deepest in Purgatory. But Our Lord said this prayer was not pleasing to him, that they were deepest in purgatory for a reason and that my prayers should not reach them there, that it is against Justice. But the visionaries were consumed by this passion to save souls from hell, nothing could be more important. But in order to have this passion we must really believe there is a hell.
If Our Lord considers that our prayers ought not, in the interests of His Justice, reach those souls deepest in Purgatory, does that mean that they must serve their entire sentence? It might seem superficially harsh, but it might really mean that these are souls who have been fortunate enough to avoid Hell. This is really an example of Christ’s great Mercy, isn’t it because these souls will eventually reach Heaven, won’t they?
Why? It was a non dogmatic, pastoral council. Catholics are free to believe some its pastoral aspects were imprudent. Pastoral provisions aren’t protected by infallibility. Communion in the hand, for instance, is a pastoral provision many Catholics don’t agree with. Pope Paul VI on January 12, 1966: “There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic definitions engaging the infallibility of the ecclesiastical Magisterium. The answer is known by whoever remembers the conciliar declaration of March 6, 1964, repeated on November 16, 1964: given the Council’s pastoral character, it avoided pronouncing, in an extraordinary manner, dogmas endowed with the note of infallibility.”
I've never heard of Jesus being displeased with us praying for anyone who is not in Hell. If we are asked to pray for the most hardened sinners ("those in most need of Thy Mercy"), why on earth would He be displeased with us praying for the souls deepest in Purgatory? Padre Pio used to urge people to "empty Purgatory with our prayers." If we are to empty Purgatory that must include praying for all of them. If God doesn't want to apply prayers to a certain soul, He will apply them to another. We shouldn't be afraid to pray for anyone.
It could have just been a message for Padraig to redirect himself. I think everyone has different “prayer jobs”, as it were. If we stay open to Him, the Lord will direct us to those jobs that produce the most fruit, and we’re not all necessarily meant to be hoeing in the same field.
There are seven levels of purgatory. The seventh is the deepest and next door to hell. Here for instance are those who are to be in Purgatory until the end of the World. There is to be no release for them until then. Here also still demons are allowed to still torment. It is said (at least for some) of this level that God does not permit prayer to relieve them: https://www.traditionallaycarmelites.com/talks/purgatory-4-of-7-the-3-levels Purgatory (4 of 7) The 3 Levels 10/30/2025 0 Comments Greetings in Jesus and Mary... This information is taken from the Unpublished Manuscript of Purgatory. It is a book about one religious sister appearing to another to ask for prayers and she has been given permission by God to share her experiences for all of us. She claimed the following which seems to coincide with other accounts. In Purgatory, there are several stages but three main levels. In the lowest and most painful, like a temporary hell, are the sinners who have committed terrile crimes during life and whose death surprised them in that state. It was almost a miracle that they were saved, and often by the prayers of holy parents or other pious persons. Sometimes they did not even have time to confess their sins and the world thought them lost, but God, whose mercy is infinite, gave them at the moment of death the contrition nesessary for their salvation on account of one or more good actions which they performed during life. Some are there for their indifference to God all their lives.The difference of this place and hell is that in hell they curse God, whereas in Purgatory, they bless Him and thank Him for having saved them. God can and does ask people to redirect their prayers. For instance if someone is praying for a soul that has gone to hell God may let them know that the soul is in the place beyond mercy, the place beyond prayer. In the same say in the seventh level of purgatory God may rule that they be granted no suffrages. https://americaneedsfatima.org/blog/proofs-of-purgatory
Thank you for posting this. I very strongly believe in purgatory. I know God died for our sins, but it isn't some kind of carte blanche to do what we want. We have recieved gifts and they come with responsibilities. We can pray for people there, but they still have to learn and grow if they had willful defects of character. Real learning and growth only happens under pressure, which very often is painful. Our prayers aren't a replacement for someone's free will.
I believe that God knows exactly how to direct our prayers, especially done through Mary. Whether He speaks to you directly or not, He can take your prayers and apply them to whom He pleases. I think there is a danger to erring on the side of justice. The love of the heart of Padre Pio, whose heart was fused with Christ's, cried out for people's prayers to empty Purgatory. God cannot be displeased with that kind of heroic love, when it is backed by a thirst for souls and willingness to suffer for them in union with Christ.
One of my points in my post above is that those who might be serving the longest sentences in Purgatory may have already received great Mercy. Anyway, no prayer will go to waste.
Saint Alphonsus Ligouri who is a Doctor of the Church and perhaps the finest Moral Theologian the Church has ever had said a frightening thing as regards God's Mercy and Justice. He said that there is a time when God's patience can run out as regards souls. That a soul can sin and sin and keeping begging for God's Mercy but there can come a time when the rope runs out and there is no more mercy. He brings things to a halt. No more mercy or forgiveness. The cycle of sinning and forgiveness ends and the soul is sent to hell. I believe this to be true. This does not sit well with modern sensibilities, but I believe it to be true, no matter how uncomfortable it may sit with us in modern times. God should instill in us a kind of reverent holy fear. I am afraid in these latter times it is no longer so. Remember the fate of Uzzah who accidently touched the Holy of Holies: 2 Samuel 6:7 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
