Intentionality

Private Revelation on Purgatory:

An angel said to St. Bridget of Sweden, “Blessed is he who, while still living on earth, helps purgative souls with prayers and good deeds. ”The prayers and good works of the faithful relieve souls gradually from this heavy burden, and that they are delivered sooner or later according to the fervor and pure intentions of those who thus serve them.

St. Frances of Rome was shown in a vision of purgatory that each soul’s guardian angel, an entity of indescribably beauty and magnificence and bathed in the splendid glow of ethereal reforging. This is the same angel that was with the soul on earth, is still with them in purgatory, and on their right side. The angel encourages the soul in purgatory by telling it every time a person on earth prays for it or gives alms on its behalf.

“By assisting the souls in purgatory through prayer, we shall not only give great pleasure to God, but will acquire also great merit for ourselves. And, in return for our suffrages, these blessed souls will not neglect to obtain for us many graces from God, but particularly the grace of eternal life.”

- St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Offering an intention mixed in with a sacramental or a prayer such as the examples below help a soul. Private revelation says that lighting a candle for a soul brings that soul light in purgatory.

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Private Revelation says that Lighting a Candle being a certain amount of light to a soul in it’s darkness

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As you are about to receive or after receiving, offering up this Holy Communion for a soul is more powerful than we ever know. It is one of the most potent helps.

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You can go into your Holy Hour offering it up for the Souls.

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We have so many sufferings, it can be as large as a medical issue to as small as someone saying a sharp word to us. Whatever the suffering is, instead of turning in on ourselves we can push it outward and help a soul.

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Praying for all of the souls in a cemetery you are at is very powerful. Or a particular soul you are visiting.

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Go to a cemetery of someone you know and pray right in front of that one grave site.

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Saints in Heaven have intercessory power to help the living and the dead (when God allows them). Invoke your favorite Saint;s intercession to help specific Holy Souls or invoke St. Nicholas of Tolentino, a 13th-century Augustinian priest, and the other is St. Gertrude the Great, a 13th-century Benedictine nun. Those two are specifically known to help Holy Souls in Purgatory.

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Sprinkle Holy Water on a Grave and pray for the souls while you do this.

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Send your guardian angel to the Holy Souls.

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Offer Sacrifices throughout the day. Cold shower, not putting butter on your bread.

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Offer blessed or exorcised incense for the Holy Souls in Purgatory and pray for the souls while you do this.