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My relations with the souls of the Purgatory
Newspaper of a Carmelite

© All pages of the set belong him Marie-Anne Lindmayr, O. C.D.
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Know, my child that my Heart is very Mercy. Of this Mercy ocean, the graces spill on the whole world. In the Christian vocabulary, the Christ replaced death home by "return of the Father". "to Die" means to finish his/her/its life, to be delivered to the death, while to "return the Father" home means to continue - and to continue in joy - to live. Cardinal Michel Faulhabe "The time to look for God, it is life of here below The time to find it, it is the death, The time to possess it, it is the eternity." Saint François of Dirty, bishop of Geneva "I die, but my love for you doesn't die. I will like you at the sky as I liked you on the earth. " Saint Jean Berchmans, S. I., To you that read these pages.... I unite to you to say this invocation to deliver a soul of the Purgatory "That the souls of the defunct supporters rest in Peace by God's Mercy Amen."

God made me feel a big appeal to write about the souls of the Purgatory.

I could give myself account that it was useful to these poor souls, and would push those that live again to practice the virtue, to stretch to perfection. It is what made me pass to the action. I decided to write, provided that God gave me life and granted me enough strength after my illness. However, during four weeks about, I have been prevented some by the Shrewd: he/it concealed himself/itself sous1es appearances of the good, without I notice it. I didn't want to achieve my project more. When I thought of it, I felt an interior reluctance and the thing appeared useless to me. During this time, God visited me of various manners by the spiritual aridity and the night of the mind and I realized that God wanted to punish me as he often made already it, when I didn't want to obey to him immediately. The day of the Saint Antoine (January 17), I finally won the victory on myself and I took, for the honor of Jesus' Name, the decision to glorify God as much as I would be able to it, while making know his/her/its

infinite Goodness and his/her/its Mercy.
I want to write best that he/it will be possible to me therefore and will be as truthfully that I capable of it, provided that God and the Holy spirit give me the grace of it, and as far as I can, when I won't live anymore, to help the men thus to keep of the terrifying pains of the Purgatory while leading a best life, and to rescue the sort the deceased. By obedience to my confessor, the R. P. Candide of Saint Elisée, religious carme (death November 23, 1720), to that I confided my soul, I write my better and in all truth before the God Almighty, in presence of that I am, what happened between the souls of the Purgatory and me. Since my youth, I already felt the appeal for the souls of the Purgatoire.Dès the childhood, I demonstrated them my love while reciting for them the rosary Saturday. When I had progressed in knowledge and in understanding, I offered my actions as satisfaction for the souls of the deceased; I thought about them in all my exercises of piety and during long years, I made for them various penitences. Among others indications and information that I received the Christ, there is this one: I must every week to propose me to practice such virtue owing God and the men, me there to apply internally and on the outside, according to the opportunities that offer themselves to me, and to apply the whole merit of it to the souls of the Purgatory: the one of the humility for example, to those that suffer because of their pride and are kept in Purgatory because they didn't practice the humility enough, estimating itself/themselves a lot themselves and scornful the other. I had to also make interior acts of humility and contempt of myself and had to send these good works in the Purgatory by the hands of the Mother of God or my guardian angel. I had to also call to my help the souls of the Purgatory so that they make me warn by their guardian angels, in the event I would miss to these virtues, this in order to help them, to offer satisfaction for them to the divine Justice, and to get them the delivery of this terrifying fire. It is precisely by the humility that one can help the souls so much: well more that by other exercises laborious of penitence. Such is the manner whose Christ dragged me to the virtue. He/it taught me to practice one soon, soon the other and it still for the souls that having failed to practice them on the earth, have this fact to suffer in Purgatory.

So some years already before God condescends to make me the grace to communicate with the souls of the Purgatory, I testified them my affection. I learned a lot by this practice of the virtues, and because the souls warned me with care, I didn't fall easily in a mistake. But in all it, I didn't think about anything else and I imagined less again to deliver the souls of the Purgatory thus. She/it quite frankly spoke to me, asked me to pray for her, so that she/it can die virgin. The on-following day, after having put order to all his/her/its business, and makes everything that it was necessary for a happy end, she/it died, November 28, 1690. I was frightened of this fast death and the Shrewd gave me some anguishes as if I had prayed so that she/it dies. As were I satisfy that no one knew what we had told ourselves one to the other. I didn't have the least idea that she/it would come at home after his/her/its death. But soon various signs made me discern his/her/its presence. However, as I didn't have any experience of such phenomena, and imagined them well less again, she/it got me little emergency. Some days later, December 1st, - one Friday - whereas I made my prayer of in the evening before my picture of the T. S. Vierge, him I was told a high voice: "Pray for me! It was for me as if I heard a funeral song. Then she/it aired me the face of a cold wind and pulled me by my dress. In the continuation, when I circulated the night with a ldvance before me. But there I thantern, I saw like a shade to aought again, about anything else.

"... Since some years, I receive on behalf of souls of the Purgatory many warnings and it of various manners, that means insofar as I progress in the practice of the virtues. I always asked God to preserve me of such demonstrations, in the fear that the Shrewd doesn't mingle itself of it and don't be mistaken. As soon as I suspected something of this kind, I always invoked with ardor helps it of God so that he/it never condescends to drive me by no difficult way to understand for my spiritual director and that could become dangerous for me.

My narrower relations with the souls of the Purgatory started shortly after my father's death. A damsel Marie Pécher gave me to hear that she had big confidence in me and wanted to speak me. But as she/it was sick, she/it could not come at home. I didn't have, until then, kept no friendly relation with her, but I learned that she/it wanted, before, to meet me, and that she/it had been prevented by her/its mother, in the fear that I don't drag his/her/its daughter to bigotry or to the religious state. After his/her/its mother's death, Marie Pêcher continued to behave of a manner exemplary and worthy of praises, in brave girl. She/it was then engaged to a young man of the name of Hufnagel.Je must apologize, explaining that I could not leave the house before the religious offices for my father had been celebrated, but I promised him to come that week. However, it was the day of the feast of Saint Catherine, virgin (November 25) hy Marie-Anne should have written on the topic

First visit of a soul

Finally, the day of the feast of the immaculate Conception (December 8, 1690), here is what I arrived: I had custom, trtyro all feasts of the T. S. Vierge, when I was not sick, to attend the Mass of 4 hours or 4 hs. 30 in our chapel of the T. S. Vierge. All alone on the path, provided with a small lantern, I went in hurry to the Mass. In the middle of the named street "Gone from the Carmeses", I live before me a person dressed of white. She/it had the size of Marie Pêcher. I didn't think about anything, otherwise surely, I had been seized of fright. This white shape advanced before me all along the alley of which I spoke, along the streets and until the church of the Jesuits. But there, when I wanted to see precisely that it was, I cannot discover anybody. It is only after, once in the chapel, that he/it came me to the mind that had worked before me and I had the interior knowledge of it. Later, Marie made herself/itself see also of night, and awakened me at midnight. I conceived for her a to stretch affection and in my prayer of in the evening before the picture of the T. S. Vierge, I asked with big confidence: "If it is for the glory of God and the salute of this soul, that she/it comes and that she/it makes herself/itself know, so that I am not deceived. " However if someone weighed me on the foot with a brilliant finger like a needle blushed to fire. It was as painful as if my leg had been wounded. I immediately rose and surrendered before my altar. There, God transported me during three hours in such a state, that I was not main of me, without while I had fainted. I had to be held indeed on my guards. Him I was clearly shown what missed to this soul. Him I was also shown that she/it had been called to the state of virginity and that the only motive for which Lord had removed it so early, it is that it was engaged. However, she/it had to die virgin. I could never have imagined that in the beyond oneself appears so stern. No, no one would know how to understand it. But I have been instructed by this soul and I could believe thus, in the continuation, of the things that otherwise I would not ever have believed.

I had not been mistaken: his/her/its mother, who came the following day, gave me the tangible confirmation of it. She/it burned me greatly more again. I must also spend three hours in prayers by her and must note what missed to him. Him I was demonstrated then that the mom Peachtree, her also, had died so early solely because she/it had set everything in motion to stop his/her/its daughter from kissing the religious state. It was also for this motive that she/it had to suffer a lot in Purgatory. This soul indicated me a lot of other mistakes again that it had committed, while eating and while drinking good things without wanting to calm down. Because she/it didn't like to make alms during his/her/its life, she/it tells to me that his/her/its husband, who lived again, he/it died June 15, 1700 - would send me a little money that I had to share between the poor of the place. money I arrived indeed. This soul cost to me a lot. I also had to for her to fast to bread and water. Four weeks later, I saw again on my foot the marks of these burns, because the shape of the hand and the finger of which this soul had touched me the foot there stayed even visible. As much I felt consolation at the time of these apparitions, as much these souls cost to me. When I had offered all satisfactions for e1les, the mother and the girl came once again in my room, December 13, 1690, day of the feast of Saint Lucie, virgin and madom. A very beautiful song sounds, drawn of the psalm: "I was in joy when one announced to me: we will go in the house of the Lord! " It, filled me of a joy that I would not know to describe.

The one that one already believed at the sky

The following night, my father's mother announced himself/itself to me. It was exactly the feast of S. Jean of the Cross, birthday of the Day where she/it had died before 17 years. I would never have believed that she/it was again in Purgatory: I believed it for a long time in the sky. Often, the day of them especially Died, we heard an unusual whisper in the house, but without thinking that it could come from a soul of the Purgatory. Thanks to God, I am not carried to imagine me these things and I as always instilled to my brothers and sisters the fear of such imaginations. But the manner of which, that time, this soul announced itself in my room, was so loud, that my brothers heard it. They came to ask me if I had not heard anything, because our rooms were situated one above the other. I hardly answered, although knowing, in fact, what this noise meant. She/it came, as the other, at midnight. I heard it to moan while sighing, like a person to the death. I immediately felt a big compassion for her, because while alive, I had liked it like my mother and I was present at the time of his/her/its death. She/it had lived seventeen years at us, in the house. She/it liked to such point the peace, that between my mother and her had misunderstanding, what my mother appreciated strong, never. As she/it liked it many. This grand'mère led a devout life. She/it had given the good example until his/her/its death, intervening at the age of 80 years, praying and staying up a lot. All it as made us hope that she/it had to not be anymore in Purgatory. But, in his/her/its justice, God the kept there. She/it asked me to help it. However I was in bed and could not rise, so much my burns to the foot made me suffer. I didn't want to rise either in part by fear that it happened again to me something, although I had liked to receive communion the day of the Saint Jean of the Cross.

I decided to remain home not to attract me of problems therefore, because, besides the swelling, the ardent heat that I felt to the feet was frightfully painful. It was nearly like a burn to the flame, to such point that my mother wanted to send me at a bather. She/it was of opinion that I had to keep the bed. While I hesitated thus, the soul of my defunct father came. She/it encouraged me, tells to me that I had to rise and had to help his/her/its mother to leave the Purgatory. I didn't have to fear, it was necessary to have confidence only in God and him me would happen to nothing. He/it had spoken me with a lot of affection and had recalled me the neighbor's big love that he/it had himself practiced during his/her/its life, sometimes rising the night, pulling itself/themselves to the sleep to come in help to others. Then he/it represented me the big pains of the souls of the Purgatory and tells to me that I had to not find too much to help his/her/its mother and to win him that day the plenary indulgence. Settled by this exhortation full of affection and serious at a time, I immediately rose, went to the church of the Carmeses and stayed there of long hours without even to think about my pains. When I went back then home, him I didn't happen to nothing. His/her/its soul only gave me a small sign of delivery. The swelling of foot disappeared soon and with it the fear that it can happen to me whatever it was on behalf of the souls of the Purgatory.

I held the hidden thing and didn't even speak of it to my mother. I only informed my confessor of it, because having noticed something he/it ordered me to speak, in the name of the obedience.

And as well as it is God who began it, it is his/her/its Providence that ordered everything and admirably disposed so that I get a room for me only, because it was not until then the case. In this room, I arranged an altar. Under the cross, I placed my picture of the a lot of Virgin Saint, under which I put the one of the Ecce painful Homo, in tears, that inspire the mercy, there. It is to this picture that I go with confidence, the night especially, and I felt attracted to come before him, to pray for the souls of the Purgatory, often. The following day of the feast of St. Thomas - it was one Friday (December 22), I lit a candle in honor of the T. S. Vierge and for the relief of the souls of the Purgatory. While, according to my habit, I made my meditation on the Christ's sufferings, I let the liberty to my mind and took care with a goodwill all special of the souls of the Purgatory to help them by the merits of the Christ's sufferings. Without me nothing to represent, I considered the picture while praying. I noticed that the Christ began to cry so, that it was mercy and that the canvas of the holy picture warped himself under the effect of the bitter tears, to the point that I feared to see the placed glass having to fly in bursts. This spectacle fills me of a fright that I would not know to describe. Then, without surprise, without vision, therefore fully conscious, I fell on the knees before this picture, struck of weakness, without changing state and I saw it of the eyes of my body. I also saw this phenomenon decreasing, then to stop quite. Soon, the Christ restarted to cry more again, and in a more animate manner. He/it cried on seven occasions. It was mercy to see it. In my pain, I knew how to make only and cried me as abundantly, because I was very worried to know if it was not for me that the Christ had cried thus. As I had big fear. God let me some days in this anguish. I finally asked Our Lord for what these bitter tears poured on seven occasions meant. His/her/its love revealed to me whereas what made it cry bitterly, it was his/her/its mercy for the men, object of his/her/its love. I asked him why he/it had cried seven times. He/it meant me that I had to ask every day for seven categories of people. Then all has been said to me and the Christ also oriented completely me on the manner of which he wanted that I apply to return him honor. It had to appear the holy Christmas days and to the feast of the New following Year. The day of the New Year, 1691, I felt in my soul a big devotion and of big desires to spend this new year in a big perfection. I felt an ardent desire to pray with a lot of application for the Catholic church and for all men. In my interior prayer, I also felt entirely data to God, so that he/it makes of me what he/it wanted and uses of me for his/her/its glory, as he/it would please to him, because I wanted to live solely to accomplish his/her/its Saint Will. " Having asked what she/it had to make that year, Marie-Anne heard these words: "I want that you suffer without letting appear he; that you live like a child and that you like like a seraph. " The Christ, she/it says, indicated to me that he/it had confidence in me of preference to all men, to take the worry of the souls that cost him so many sufferings and blood. He/it exhorted me to a big love and to a high esteem of the souls that he/it estimated himself to the point to suffer and to die for all...

Passage to the contemplative life

"Next, tell the venerable, I received the visit of a Carme that appeared me to be S. Jean of the Cross. He/it tells to me that I had to lead a contemplative life, disappeared then. Since this time, I felt the desire to pray thus and of more to continue to meditate. I very rather felt range to pay attention, as if someone spoke to me. The faculties of my soul accepted all very well it. God himself guided me with strength toward the contemplative prayer. I could only pay attention to what he/it told to me. The appeal of the contemplation was so strong, that I could take a rest neither the day nor the night, if it was not enjoined me in the name of the obedience. The graces began to appear with strength in my soul, that the contemplative prayer improved quickly. At the same time, I shone love of God and the desire to suffer for him and for the whole world: I was not nearly main of myself. Abundant words would not be sufficient to me to say with what love God treated me, then he/it made me know his/her/its love. In my wonder before all graces that God often granted to me, I sometimes told the Christ, in side of the tears,: "Oh, Lord, why do you give me of such graces, that I didn't certainly deserve and of which I know that You usually give only them to those that like You indeed? I only served little up to here you and I even offended a lot you. How is this possib1e, Lord? Do you therefore have already completely forgotten my mistakes? Please, send me as much as You want it the suffering, because it, I deserved it. " On that, the eternal Truth gave to me and lit in my soul the light of the Truth. My soul has been illuminated and his/her/its love has been made me know that in such words, that I could not ask another question. But the Lord told me "That is not because you deserve it, that I am so good with you, but I give you the grace to be in relations with the souls of the Purgatory, to bring you to become better and to attract you to me by such extraordinary events. Others came of themselves to me, with their love for me, while you, you must be attracted to me and to the virtue by the strength of my special love and my grace. " = More elevated were the graces that God had given to me, and that he made manifest to the eyes of the men, more as he humiliated me: more greatly that could not have made it no man of the world, what often cost me a lot of tears. L 'eye of God, that sees all, watched to the deepest of my soul full of mistakes and showed me that that I had deserved. But next, He/it made me know his/her/its Mercy without boundary-marks, that pushed me to like it more again...

Vision and description of the Purgatory

It is in that time that I was often driven in Purgatory, and I could see this frightening place. May 15, after the holy communion in the church of the Jesuits, it has me him represented summer, or do I have summer driven by my guardian angel there? I don't know it - I saw before me a big fosse6 of which I could not see the extremity, because she/it was dived in the complete obscurity. I realized that this pit was occupied nevertheless, but I don't manage to describe the shape precisely of it. He/it seemed me that he/it reigned there, of an extremity to the other, a big mess, and a horrible stink, as in a soue to pigs. I must stay there a long time, although it gave me a retching, indeed. After what I saw another place, but very near of this pit, of the right side. This place appeared me like a millrace of mill, of which the enlarged waters fall in cascade. But it was a cascade of fire that fell, so that I wondered that he/it could have a water of fire there. But when I came back to me, I understood: this deep pit, without end, it is the hell; the millrace, it is the Purgatory (pre-hell) where the poor souls are dived like in a water of fire, but with a big difference no according to the pain, because they are immersed in fire, but according to the order and the love with which they suffer. At the souls of the Purgatory, I clearly saw that they are fully united to God's Will, that they are exceptionally patient in their sufferings, that they feel indeed happy to have escaped the hell deserved by their sins, during their life and to be in this place of the Purgatory. This contentment of the dear defunct supporters in the middle of their sufferings, I would wish it well to myself and to all men of the earth in our sufferings and our adversities, because, then, one would not find an impatience more here below. Him I was also revealed that to the souls of the Purgatory, one hour decorated longer than twenty years of big sufferings on the earth. I also understood that if one offered them to be able to leave the Purgatory and to enter to the sky although no purified again entirely, the souls of the Purgatory would like much better there to remain until the last Judgment that to appear before God with the least stain. I noticed, at these dear souls that are in Purgatory, a patience that one would not know to say, and I learned them to estimate the obedience greatly, while seeing how much, by the exercise of this holy virtue, one can help them and return to them as much and as quickly service. Oh yes, one is able your to call holy, the souls of the Purgatory, well because they are full of love of God. They burn more the love well to see this God so good and to enjoy his/her/its presence, that they don't run the light of their peines.Une other time, I live the Purgatory like a prison all in fire, like a place whose fire was frightening. All fires of the united world would not know him to be compared, and the poor souls are dived there like sparks of fire (Horn. III, 16 and I Petrs. 1,7). "they are so numerous that my eyes didn't succeed in kissing some of the look the whole multitude, so much she/it is big. Shortly after, the Purgatory I was shown like a fishpond in which was a multitude of fish. These fish were completely white and stretched toward me their open mouth. He/it has been meant me that I had to cool them by the tears of my eyes and Christ's Blood, while offering it for them. Him I was also told that I had to spill on them of salt, what I didn't first of all understand, until it I was explained: I had to accomplish some good works and had to offer them for the poor souls. To give an idea of the number of these souls, God made me see the Purgatory under the shape of an anthill. I asked why these souls I was shown thus. Him I was given to understand that it is because an anthill is covered, especially in winter where one doesn't absolutely notice that it is of it one so big number of ants. But if one moves it with a stick, or if one fills with smoke it, the ants leave from it by thousand. I had to think that there is in Purgatory, many, a lot of souls that are hidden from our eyes, as in a covered anthill, as I had just seen it. I had to not wonder therefore if I saw that they show so much ardor to my consideration. It is that by an effect of his/her/its love, his/her/its Goodness had now come in this anthill. By his/her/its first tears, the Christ had wanted to demonstrate that if few men think about the souls of the Purgatory of a manner that rescue them. He/it used me like a tip of stick to move this anthill, so that I can see as were hidden there in crowd of the souls that one already believes at the sky. Then the souls of the Purgatory I was shown under the shape of a swarm of bees clutched to a tree. Him I was told that I had to not wonder about their big number, because nothing soiled doesn't enter to the sky. However, the men usually live as worldly truths, without thinking hardly has the other world, to the eternal life, and without recognizing their mistakes. But God examines all according to the justice. Him I was told again that I had to consider the brief time of sufferings that, in comparison of the eternity, is only a short instant, or, to consider what infinite reward was the sky that followed this time of sufferings. The sky requires that one makes itself violence. However, most men, the worldly, don't make themselves violence because, in worldly that they are, they don't believe themselves obligated to practice the virtue. He/it is not able to evidently go thus, otherwise from it: they stay a very long time retained in this place.

The salute of the non-catholic

God also gave me a lot of lights concerning the souls of those that lived and died in the luthérianisme. A very big number among them is not reproven, but arrive to the beatitude because they didn't have enough understanding or were completely innocent. It is why God gave them, at the end of their life, the grace to make an act to repent being sufficient to run away and they left this world thus in God's grace. Him I was revealed at the same time as these are souls that, during their life believed to this truth: nothing soiled cannot enter to the sky. They have been shown to me in quite another jail and they stretched toward me 1eur plugs open like starved, complaining that I had forgotten them. I didn't know, first of all what were these souls; but when I had prayed, he/it has been revealed to me that they were there absolutely resourceless emergency. They told to me that I had to and could help them, because if they had not lived in the real Church, they were also deprived of all help. They now had resort to me. These souls especially asked for all the Mass and the holy communion. It is what their hunger indicated. The Christ tells to me, at the time of the communion,: "You are perfectly right to pray for these souls.

The pains of the spouses

The venerable represents as follows the pains of the spouses that, during their life, didn't practice the chastity according to their state: "In 1709, my guardian angel drove me in an unknown place of me. I live of it a big lake full of sulfur and pitch. I didn't see anything in this lake because all his/her/its surface bubbled like a water cooking to big soups. When I came back to me, I got in prayers owing my Ecce Homo, and asked to the Holy spirit and the T. S. Vierge to illuminate me on the sense of this vision. Him I was revealed that this place was quite a place of the Purgatory and a place of pains special, inexpressible, incomprehensible, for a particular category of souls; that in this lake were immersed those completely that, in the marriage, were plunged themselves entirely in the carnal pleasures, leading an animal life more that human. I was also exhorted to testify my mercy all special to these souls, because one thinks so little about them, and to offer for them God the painful flogging of His/her/its unique Son. Him I was also revealed on this occasion, that God reminds to Him these people soon, but that he also takes very early 1eurs children. March 10, 1714, him I was revealed that in the holy state of the marriage, one doesn't live as one should live and that he/it commits himself/itself of it of big sins. It is why God punishes severely already in this world, as I have just indicated, but more severely again in the other world where a lot of married people are damned because they didn't live as they would have owed it according to their state.

The length of the pains of the Purgatory

The Purgatory is the place that the royal Psalmist calls "Country of the oblivion" (Ps. LXXXVII, 13) and of which the eternal Truth said herself: "In truth I tell it to you, you won't come out of there that you paid for the last quadrant (slim currency)" (Matth. V, 26). TO this place of torments applies the Psalmist's speech indeed: "You moved away of me my friend and the one that I was near, and my intimate, you held them far from me" (Ps. LXXXVII, 19). For what concerns the length of the pains of the Purgatory, the venerable tells us: "The poor souls showed to me that in the other world all is calculated with an absolute accurateness and that in this life, one can diffici1ement to make itself/themselves an idea of it. I am myself myself often astonished, once she/it says, that he/it was even merely possible that so many souls are in Purgatory, kept for if 1ongtemps, whereas one believed them a long time since good in the joy éternelel. I could see it in the case of my grandparents, since my grand'mère cannot present itself at home that to the tip of seventeen years. The stay in Purgatory often lasts some hundreds of years. All it made me see big how much is the offense made to God by the sin and that everything that has not been expiated in this life must be he in the other. God put us in hands the sufficient means to wash our soul in this world and to purify it. But these means, how does one use some?

The souls of the Purgatory taught me what is necessary to make a good use of the sacraments, of the prayer, of the indulgences,; that by the suffering, the adversities and the illnesses, one can expiate a lot. But all happens often without one makes case there.

In the continuation, I didn't wonder anymore about to see in the fire of the Purgatory of people died since hundred years and even more, because I learned to consider more always what very infinite is on the contrary God and what big pain, is the sin. I learned brief how much are the sufferings of the Purgatory in look of the eternity, and that all pain is not anything, in comparison of the pains of the hell. For those that were hard with their neighbor, it is difficult to arrive to the delivery, because what is hard the remains. In 1704, a soul presented itself at home. It was a person's soul died since fifteen years. While alive, she/it passed for very devout. She/it tells to me: "One doesn't arrive so quickly to the sky; it is also a suffering, that people hold you for saints, because then one doesn't apply to pray for you. »

Those that remain the least long in Purgatory are, according to the indications of Marie-Anne Josèphe, the debonair, those that have good heart, the merciful and those that die while accepting the death gladly. Oh yes! The souls of the Purgatory can be called holy, because they are full of love for God and burn more the desire well to see the Face of this beloved God and to enjoy some, that of the fire of their pains.

What the church teaches about the Purgatory

Judas Macchabée, told us the Bible, sent to Jerusalem twelve thousand drachmas of money so that a sacrifice was offered of it for the soldiers killed in the battle because it thought that the best reward was reserved to those that had died in feelings of piety. It is therefore a holy and beneficial thought to pray for the deaths, so that they are delivered of their sins (II Mach. XII, 48). The holy Church teaches us "that there is a Purgatory and that the souls that there is detained are helped by the prayers of the supporters, but especially by the offering of the sacrifice of the Mass". Marie-Anne says: "The poor souls of the Purgatory made me see that in the other world all is counted so precisely and examined, that one can hardly make itself an idea of it in this life, and that in the beyond, one absolutely finds otherwise all that one doesn't imagine it here below. »

"It is I, the Lord, who probes the kidneys,; me that give to each according to his/her/its conduct, and according to the fruit of his/her/its efforts" (Jer. XVII, 10, and Apoc. II, 23). The apostle himself dreaded this terrifying exam, him that could say,: "I am not conscious of nothing in actual fact, but I am not for as much justified; because the one that judges me, it is the Lord, who will put on the very day what is hidden, and will unveil the feelings of the heart" (I Horn. IV, 4). The blissful Suso trembles to the thought of this exam and exclaim: "Ah! just Judge to the stern Judgment! As you weigh the least things, giving them one so big weight, whereas no one makes sure there because of their smallness! " The sufferings of the souls of the Purgatory are so unspeakable, because separated of their body, they cannot accomplish penitences, nor deserving actions, nor works satisfactoires, because, as says the P. Faber, they are not anymore under the régime of the mercy of the Christ's Priest, that by the indulgences, distribute the treasures of the church. The only consolation and the only help consist, for them, in the communion of the saints, that the death herself cannot break. Due to this article of faith these poor souls can sometimes, with God's special permission, to ask for the help of our prayers and to wake their memory in the mind of those that knew them of their living up and are again on the earth. Saint Thomas of Aquin says expressly that the souls of the Purgatory sometimes present themselves to the looks of the living and can appear to them to ask them to the help. In his/her/its "Compendium", Caramelli says about these apparitions: "These souls, that belong at the suffering church, usually appear to the living under an aspect and in an attitude that excites the mercy of those that sees them. Often, the expression of their face is sad; they are surrounded with quick flames; of other times, they pass before the eyes of the soul like a lightning, like a shade, like a cloud, but always, the view of such material signs awakens us of it the memory of a defunct person that was us dear and we feel advanced to pray for it. " Some mystics give other signs by which announce themselves the apparitions of these souls, that are only too often again and that forgotten too quickly. Thus, for example, the sighs, the complaints, the sobs, all sorts of voices or sounds, of the struck strokes,. In other cases, one doesn't discern anything on the outside, but one is sudden seized of a sadness vagueness feeling, one feels a deep and mysterious thrust that is as if the soul to that God grants the permission of it, took possession of us, to wake in us his/her/its memory up and to force us to pray for her.

How the souls of the Purgatory appear

We are going to see what are the memories of Marie-Anne concerning the souls of the Purgatory and how they appeared to him. The P. Barnabé Kirchhuber, O. S. F., confessor of the clarisses of the convent of Anger, that in 1704 submitted Marie-Anne to a tight investigation, by mandate of the prince-bishop, written June 6 in these terms to the first Bishop concerning the souls of the Purgatory,: "Since Wednesday before Christmas (December 22) 1690, the souls of the Purgatory often came at Marie-Anne. She/it saw them the night, often during two hours, in the flames, heard big sighs and whining at the same time; she/it heard her/its bodily ears the crackle of fire. Of day, she/it notices the presence of the souls by sparks that fly and is going to land on his/her/its neck, his/her/its hands, and of other parts of his/her/its body. Marie-Anne writes herself to this subject: There was "often in my room a big fire. In the continuation I were not able to more see it of the eyes of the body because my confessor made me defense to watch around me. I would have been besides absolutely incapable to make it, because I immediately felt advanced to pray. I fell on the knees, entered in ecstasy and, by God's grace, I was of it if fixed that I could not often move any member; not even the eyes. And when I wanted to start writing depending on whether I had the duty of it, the sparks fell in big quantity on my hand and on my paper. The poor souls wanted thus to warn me. In many cases, she/it endures thrills and cold weather when the souls approach of her; these poor souls even arrive him shivering of cold weather, frosts. To a lot of between them he/it was not allowed him to ask their name and less again to write their mistakes. As the Shrewd came to mingle him as coins various appearances to these events so mysterious, either to reroute it either to divert it from to help the poor souls, his/her/its confessor ordered to him, as says in his/her/its report the P. Barnabé Kirchhuber, to pronounce Jesus' very holy Name, to show the holy Cross in their direction, to throw blessed water or to light a blessed candle, when some souls announced themselves. If it was a good soul, she would approach then more of her; if it was a bad mind, she would feel internally and on the outside a concern, but the bad mind should retire.

One is punished which way one sinned

In the continuation, the souls appeared to him precisely of a manner characteristic correspondent in their state. She/it writes: "God instructed me of what misses to the poor souls and how one can help them. "Some souls came to me the in tears eyes.

They asked me to make penitence for them while watching over my looks and while avoiding all curiosity. Of others I appeared absolutely starved, exhausted, in an indescribable state. They asked me to observe for them a stern fasting to bread and to water and to repair the defaults thus committed during their life by excess in to drink it and to eat it. Others made me to understand, by their behavior, their unhappy angers and their impatiences, again. They asked me to really want to use by acts patience and sweetness. Of the souls that had not been mortified during their life, stretched me a cilice (instrument of penitence). When I had to fast for them, a table abundantly served me was shown. The souls that had sinned by the language me appeared the mouth closed by a nail, to make understand me that I had to keep the silence. The souls that, on the earth, were hard of heart and without mercy, can only be helped by works of mercy and by the generosity. What misses to the tree must be expiated on the tree (of the cross). It is why as everything that missed on other points must be expiated of the manner whose default has been committed. The seducers who converted in time, but didn't have the leisure to repair the badly caused, I saw them under an appearance similar to the one of the shrewd mind, because it is the essence of the demon to seduce the men to drag them to the pain. The poor souls that, during their life, watched too little over their looks had to appear with frightfully big eyes. The souls full of sufficiency, proud of their knowledge, appeared to him with deformed heads. The pride that they had had during their life, Marie-Anne recognized it to their cancerous face. If a soul appeared of the finger the forehead, it meant that it had been intoxicated to the e course his/her/its life. A face that diverted itself from it made him recognize the past touchiness, all as it recognized the lack of work love to the pathetic aspect of the hands.

When Marie-Anne saw in a corner a soul that prayed, she knew that she had missed to the obedience and uneasy the good order during his/her/its life. Those that had liked the beasts too much during their life had to appear to her with the animal too much pampered around the neck. Those that had been preoccupied too much of the terrestrial things making pass the things of the eternity after those of here below, she/it recognized them to their childish size.

Some examples noted by Marie-Anne will show it to us more clearly. "When he/it is in honors, the man doesn't know how to recognize it, he is similar to the animal deprived of reason" (Ps. XL VIII, 21). "December 15, 1690 at midnight, a soul of the Purgatory came at home; I had known it very well while alive. It was a musician of the court. Violinist JeanGeorges Loderer (such was his/her/its name) was the professor of music of my brother Franz-Philippe and he/it also gave me to me of the lessons. He/it liked to drink. He/it was not angry at me in anything when I warned it, often, that he/it abridged his/its life thus. He/it died January 7, 1688. I was in full sleep when his/her/its soul I appeared under the shape of a big toad, horrible, swollen, against the curtain of my bed. Awakening me, I was not little afraid, believing that it was the demon. And now this soul made itself know while pinching the ropes of my zither so violently, that I believed that they were going to break themselves. The fear left me then and I asked this soul why it appeared me under this shape. She/it recognized that it was for her a pain all particular to appear under such an aspect. It was because during his/her/its life, she/it had behaved like this animal. As well as the toads, who like to stay in the humid, swampy places, always search for the humidity, he/it liked, him also, to have the humid throat. This soul also recognized, that it had abridged her/its life thus and that if now one didn't carry him help, it should suffer during as many years as it had abridged his/her/its terrestrial life thus.

I gave myself a lot of pain for this soul and I received the indication of his/her/its delivery. Another suffering soul, a mason, who had often worked in the house of my parents, had the bad habit to blaspheme and to drink. Him I was shown shut in in a prison, behind a strong grid as one puts of it to keep the fawn beasts. He/it raised toward me his/her/its hands while crying, praying me, with abundant sighs, to come him in help. He/it tells to me that he/it endured the language abominably because of his/her/its blasphemies. I had to for him, to pronounce with a piety all special the Name Very Saint of God and to fast even water, to suffer a lot for him. I have since God had prematurely withdrawn as solely it from this world him because of his/her/its off-putting life, and that he have have to suffer a long time again if he had not had the grace to be able to appear to me. His/her/its supplication expressed itself by this only word: "You can help myself, and you must help myself."

I was one day in prayer in front of the picture of Annunciation, in our dear chapel of the T. S. Vierge in the church of St Michel, according to my habit. Here it is that a man I appeared as he/it was while alive. Sad and crying, he/it held in hand a wineglass, showing me some what he/it had sinned during his/its life thus. It was again a young man. He/it revealed to me that if I didn't help it, he/it should suffer during forty years to have abridged of as much his/her/its life while drinking with excess. But because while alive, he/it had liked of child's love the T. S. Vierge, and had been good for the poor, God's Mother has me herself exhorted to help it. I fasted during forty days to bread and to water and I offered for this soul my prayers, my confessions, my communions, the indulgences that I won, and my aumônes by the hands of God's Mother. At the end of forty days this soul has been shown me in the beatitude.

"One is punished which way one sinned" (Sap. XI, 17). Today, March 10, 1714, I saw in Purgatory, a soul of which the face - the eyes especially -, were ravaged so horribly, that he/it is impossible to me to describe it. I learned that this soul, during his/her/its deadly life, liked to contemplate bad pictures and that it had had the big grace however to die in feelings to repent. Him I was also shown the big pain that these bad pictures and these bad illustrations make. September 16, 1704 I appeared to the countess of Sternberg, lady of the nobility of Bohemia. She/it had a lot to suffer because of the nudity that she/it spread to the looks while wearing low-necked dresses. As she/it was forgotten completely of his, she/it appeared me, frightfully old. I heard it to say with sadness: "I won't go of a long time not again home (to the sky)." January 8, 1714, a sister converses of our order came at home. His/her/its face was ravaged like by a cancerous illness. Him I was revealed that this sister, during his/her/its life, was not little proud of his/her/its beautiful presence.

Another soul of our order I appeared. His/her/its aspect was as measly as if birds of prey had devoured him the face completely. That one as must appear thus to me, because, while alive, she/it had been proud of his/her/its beautiful face and had hardly succeeded in dominating itself/themselves. September 13, 1703, a soul came at home. I had known it very well while alive. She/it approached and touched me of his/her/its hand to the forehead. Three days during, I had the impression that one had put me a very heavy coif. I asked him for what she/it wanted to make understand me by there. She/it confessed me that she/it had been very incredulous and stubborn during his/her/its life; that she/it had the habit to get used only to his/her/its head. She/it had fallen thus in a lot of mistakes and in a big mess. December 14, 1712 after the complies, 1'âme of a sister converses me appeared under a very pathetic shape. She/it made me know the sufferings that she/it endured, to the hands especially. His/her/its two hands were swollen very and seemed absolutely burnt. She/it taught me that she/it had very beautiful hands. As she worked little, letting work to the other sisters and staying very often idle. January 20, 1723, a soul I appeared with eyes exorbités, horrible to see. I knew that during his/her/its life, she/it was colérique and envious of his/her/its neighbor and especially with regard to the poor. This soul had had the big grace however to be able to get ready at his/her/its last hour.

The souls that stay the least long in Purgatory

Marie-Anne knows, by the experiences made with the souls of the Purgatory, that those that accept good will the death remain the least long in Purgatory. The countess Marie Anne, Josèphe, Theresa Preising, born Rechberg Hohenaschau auf, was bound very with the venerable Marie-Anne. She/it had had frequent relations with her during his/her/its life. It is why she/it was able to, after his/her/its intervening death October 17, 1721, to come soon at Marie-Anne as this one tells it: "October 17, 1721, one Friday, at four o'clock in the morning, I was pushed to pray for the countess who was in pain of child. AT nine o'clock of the before-noon, she/it died. She/it immediately appeared to me to the choir after his/her/its death, all happy, because she/it had been devout during his/her/its life. She/it appeared me as she/it was while alive, holding in hand an apple that she/it shared in two with big desire. I learned her how much one fails in his/her/its duty while being night of the day her and of the night the day. The countess especially asked me the communion that she had often missed during his/her/its life. She/it confessed me that in to eat it, she/it hardly went without, estimating that it was not necessary, and that she/it had wasted a lot of time uselessly. October 18, the whole community offered for it the holy communion. Friday October 24, she/it entered in the beatitude, because of the privilege attached sabatin to the confraternity of Notre-Dame of the Carmel, whose countess wore the scapular. I live it up there, in an inexpressible joy, and I heard a marvelously beautiful song. One sang: "Vanitas vanitatum" (vanity of the vanities). The reason for which the countess had entered so early in the beatitude, it is that, young mother, she had relied entirely on God's will and had asked for herself with one so ardent desire the sacraments

The hard treatment of the priests

They are treated more toughly, them to that God confided more and to which he said: "You are light
of the world, and "That your light shines before the men, (Mat th. V, 14 and 16). April 30, 1713, I live a secular priest in Purgatory. I saw in him a lot of carelessness. What difference he/it should have there between priests and laymen! But so often she/it doesn't exist. "What is silliness in a layman's mouth is blasphemy in the one of a clerk", said St Bernard. To this topic, he/it has been given me a marvelous comparison. I saw, next to this priest, a lamp. A plain lamp. She/it was all dirty, full of tallow drops and there was inside only quite a small tip of candle. Him I was told: "The lamp is the picture of the soul and the body. The soul must give the good example and must illuminate like a light. The body in which lives in the soul, must head according to the soul; it is necessary that he/it is not a dirty lamp, so that light illuminates the lamp and that the lamp is for light an ornament. I had to wonder if one would place a dirty lamp of this kind on the table owing a polite, respectable man. Him I was told: "All as one doesn't put beautiful candles of white wax in a kitchen plain and dirty lamp, God doesn't give either his/her/its thanks to a man that, placed on the candlestick, should illuminate, but that doesn't give any light, not of good example. It is well rather a small and bad light, lend to die out that suits such a lamp.

They are treated more toughly them to that God confided

December 6, 1705, I appeared the souls of two secular priests, that were cleaned. One had died since thirty years about, the other since six months. All two I appeared under the shape of children of ten to twelve years, but donned of the dawn and the stole. They appeared so small because they had had too much esteem for the material goods, watched too much to money and to goods of this world. I live them to endure big pain, to ask for the help the closed eyes and the mouth wide open. They are deprived of God's view and must stay in darkness because while carrying the true light owing their supporters, they didn't like it them even and don't have by consequently market to his/her/its clarity. Him I was told and was also shown that the priests have the obligation to use only to spiritual ends their money and their good; that they cannot let them to their parents without incurring a big responsibility. The prince-voter Clement of Cologne, brother of the prince Max-Emmanuel voter (death November 12, 1723) appeared to the venerable like a poor small shepherd. March 29, 1699, I was shown a bishop in a horrible prison in flames. He/it wore very poor civil clothes because he/it worried more, during his/her/its life, of the profane things that of the spiritual things. The duke Philippe Maurice of Bavaria (born August 5, 1698) son of the prince-voter Emmanuel, was named, March 14, 1719 - unless 21 years! - bishop of Paderborn and besides, immediately after, March 21, bishop of Munster. He/it went to Rome. "The day of the duke's election, in 1719, I was in prayer when he/it was sudden to me presented as cadaver. I understood that it meant its death. March 19 arrived from Rome, by station, the news of this death. He/it had died March 12 and had been buried in the church of the Madonna Vittoria della.


March 21, he/it appeared me to the choir, under a child's features, because of the childish things of which he/it took care. He/it was like a small child who doesn't know how to speak again; March 23, he/it appeared me while serving of Mass and March 24 like a priest in black cassock, as him carried it usually. April 28 he/it entered in the eternal rest and I live it, May 1st, under the shape of a magnificent angel, it because, during his/her/its life, he/it was a fervid of the T. S. Vierge. In the year 1704, the two convents of Altomunster, fleeing before the enemy, had taken refuge in Munich. The convent of women occupied 1' "Aheimhaus" bought in 1671 by abbess Fébronie Korn. It is there that died, September 23, 1704, abbess Marie-Claire Reuschi, whose chronicle says that it increased the possessions of the abbey while buying some earths for 4000 florins et l'h6tellerie and the hotel in the court, the Episcopal palace (currently cure) and the sacristan's house. Today, November 12, 1704, the abbess of the monastery of Altomunster I appeared. She/it can present herself/itself in dress of nun, but must make it, before me, dressed like a maid. Later, I live it like quite a small child crying in the arms of his/her/its guardian angel. She/it must appear therefore as make it customarily the children, because she/it had taken care, as the children make it, of things that are trifles to God's eyes. She/it must give some a stern account. Him I was revealed that she/it had to suffer in Purgatory until the abbesses who would follow to him in his/her/its load repaired what she/it had disregarded. Him I was made know also how much it is more necessary to work to perfection of his/her/its subordinate clauses that to take care food, the interview and the things of the body. It made me remember also that it is not in vain that he/it has been said: "Marthe! Marthe! You worry and become disturbed for a lot of things. One only is necessary" (Luc X, 41). That they are true and worthy to be considerations, these words of the blissful Thomas of Kempis,: "He/it will stay a long time small and in a lower position, the one that estimates something else a lot that the only one Very immeasurable, eternal.

Those that oppose the vocation of their children

"How much God punishes those that oppose the vocation of their children severely, it is what I would like to show while mentioning the following case. In February 1709, I saw a soul all in fire. During his/her/its life, this person held a restaurant. She/it had a girl that she/it placed in a convent to make his/her/its education, so that she/it was not corrupted home by customers. The child was pleasing so at the convent, that she wanted to remain there definitely. When the mother noticed this inclination, she took her/its daughter at her, under pretext to feel it, but of fact to put him at the head of other ideas. Three weeks after, the mother fell sick and died at the end of few of days. Today, February 12, I should have seen in this unspeakable state, in fire. She/it doesn't have me anything asked of another one that to pray for his/her/its daughter, so that she/it persists in her/its good subject and can achieve it, because it is only as well as herself will see to decrease his/her/its pain and will be delivered. In 1704, came at home a soul that had left this world before 15 years and that one held for very devout. She/it tells to me: "One doesn't arrive so easily to th. e sky

God doesn't make meaning of people

Even some crowned heads came to look for and found help by Marie-Anne, as she/it tells it to us. "February 24, 1704 I was pushed internally to offer my prayers for the soul of the grand'mère of the princess-voter. February 26, I was warned about praying for the prince-voter-Ferdinand-Marie, death May 26, 1679. The same night, I not only had the visit of the princess-voter, but more princess voter deceased Adélaïde March 18, 1676 and of his/her/its daughter Marten Anne-Christine, deceased April 20, 1690, as wife of the king of France Louis XV. I endured that day of hard sufferings. February 22, at the time of the communion, I felt the hope that she/it would be delivered soon, and I live it to endure less also. February 29, after having spent three hours praying and especially to make acts of love for these poor souls, I live, shortly after four hours in the morning, the souls of the prince-voter, his/her/its wife and their daughter as well as the soul of the grand'mère of the princess-voter, to enter all four glorious to the sky. Soon after, other imes announced themselves and I have have to ask all especially for the families of the sovereigns of Austria and Spain."


June 17, 1696, died Jean III Sobieski, king of Poland, aged of 72 years. Marie-Anne writes to this subject in 1703: "Some months already before I had a revelation about the king of Poland, a soul announced itself with noise at home and I have been anguished some very during the night. The day of the feast of our Founder S. Thérèse, October 15, I was at midnight awake sudden and I must start in hurry praying. I especially asked for his/her/its Excellence the princess-voter-Theresa-Cunégonde, girl of king Jean III Sobieski, because it was the day of his/her/its feast. While I prayed, he/it came me the idea to pray also for all deceased of the family of the prince-voter, without thinking in particular about none. In the octave of the feast of S. Theresa, I live this soul that was often announced already itself as big Lord, but that didn't speak. Of day also I saw it to my right side. When I had noticed his/her/its presence well, he/it disappeared without me anything to show other. November 4 in the octave of them Died, it was also the first Sunday I was delighted in ecstasy and conduct in a big magnificent room where was raised a catafalque. When I came back to me, I felt, although very weakly, driven to pray and to offer the communion for these high defunct personalities. November 6, at midnight, I was again hastily awake and I heard these words: "Pray for the father of the princess-voter. " I made it. During this prayer, this soul I was demonstrated and I recognized all his/her/its mistakes and his/her/its defaults. After what, I offered all to God for her, but in particular the Christ's precious Blood. Of the 6 to November 11, I applied to win the most possible of indulgences for this soul, and the hope I was given for her. November 11, feast of S. Martin, I was shown in vision a delicious banquet. Him I was made know as well as this soul was going to be admitted soon to the celestial banquet. During the holy Mass, I live eyes of my body this soul shining a very quick burst, to bring up to the sky and the same instant all anguish flew off so to speak. " It is surprising that in the writings of Marie-Anne he/it is not anything concerning the devout emperor Léopold I, otherwise the revelation of his/her/its death, that she/it received in March 1705 and of which she/it speaks in these terms: "March 10 him I was shown a big partition with his/her/its windows, violently pulled,; 1l I was announcement that a potentate would die and also that God would be merciful for his/her/its soul. This prince's soul according to God's heart didn't need his/her/its help anymore in the beyond, because it had, in this world, endured a famous Purgatory on behalf of the Turks. But Marie-Anne wrote concerning the emperor Joseph I, son and successor of Léopold I on the throne, that died April 17, 1711 of the smallpox. The venerable had, during his/her/its prayer, the revelation of the emperor's illness." After the communion, April 15, I asked the Lord for the emperor and asked him if he/it had to already die. Him I was told: "Yes, and he/it is good for his/her/its soul that he/it dies. " When happened to the news of his/her/its death, I was frightened some very and God inspired to my soul a special love for his: to really make a lot of for her and to fast forty days to bread and to water. I often felt this soul during the prayer. To the term of this fasting, the soul came back more often again. This morning January 26 being awake but no again levee, I live it in long black dress. Very in a friendly way and with big sweetness, she/it called me: "Miss Marie-Anne! " I were not able to again recognize it and I recommended it to God. Was I some to ask me if that was a person dedicated or a layman, when has that she lands me: don't you know myself therefore? me that come every day at home? I am emperor Joseph. " I made from then on for him what I was able to. January 29, 1712, I live it an open eye and the closed other. Him I was revealed that it was because, while alive, he/it had had the worry of God's church too little. February 9, his/her/its soul I appeared all half note and February 14, I live it to go up to the happy and magnificent sky. " Has some facts chosen among the apparitions of souls of the Purgatory to Marie-Anne therefore. They already justify sufficiently these words of God's maid: No one will believe what I cost the souls of the Purgatory. But I made the experience that the loud placed people have me a lot more tormented that of more modest condition others. »

To What know us the souls of the Purgatory?

The souls of the Purgatory are informed of what concerns us. Us soaps by this note of MarieAnne: "A colleague recommended a soul to my prayers and expressed the desire that I ask God so that this soul can come at home. In my prayers, I recommended this intention ardently to God, so such was his/her/its holy will. The same night, this colleague saw the Christ who took it by the hand and appeared very agreeable and tender to his/her/its consideration. When I learned it, I asked God to show me why it had arrived and why it was not the soul that had appeared. Him I was revealed that Jesus had accepted the love that this colleague had shown for this soul as if she had demonstrated it to him to Himself. It is why he/it had come himself to thank, to warn that one must think a lot about the souls of the Purgatory. The souls them even are as thankful with regard to their benefactors. Thereon, this same sister asked me, in the event this soul would come again at me, to ask him to pray for his/her/its daughter, so that it chose a good career. When I communicated this demand to the soul of the Purgatory, she/it answered me: "He/it would be more beneficial for the one that makes this demand, to recommend itself/themselves herself so that one intercedes so that she/it learns to accomplish his/her/its duty of state better and to be more obedient to his/her/its superior.
To conclude, let's listen to what answers Marie-Anne the question again: in Purgatory the imes can already grant us so.

Here is what she/it writes to this topic: "God grants those that have confidence to the imes of the Purgatory quickly, invoke them, pray them. " The motive is clear of it: it is that these souls are in state of grace; they are therefore pleasant to God and nothing prevents that they pray for us; that God unveils them our needs and our demands and grant us something by their intercession. "He/it has been made me know says Marie-Anne that this fast fulfillment doesn't come from the souls again, as if these were them that grant, but that God grants, taken into consideration the love that he has for them. They cannot help us themselves, don't see God's Face as a long time that they. But God grants us however because of the souls of the Purgatory, because he likes them and want to have them with him as very dear friends. He/it rewards with generosity the love that one testifies to them and help us while following this way to arrive of the manner fastest to the virtue and to perfection" Make yourselves the friends who will take you then in the eternal homes" therefore (Luc XVI, 9) and work, while he/it is day, because the night comes, where no one can work more (Joh. IX, 4). As the writing the venerable: "I recognized that a coin in this life is worth more that one thousand florins after the death, parce. the man can acquire some merits again. "Saint Césaire, archbishop of Arles, deceased August 27, 542, written this,: Someone could say: "That imports me, the Purgatory so long that he/it lasts, so long as I finally arrive to the eternal life! That hopeless, my dear brothers, yours this language, because this late purifier will be more terrifying than everything that one can imagine, to see or to undergo in this world make torments of it. ."

Hard tests and interdiction

Hard tests and interdiction has what tests now had to undergo Marie-Anne, because of his/her/its merciful love. "The big fire of the Purgatory that God made me see, she writes, illuminated me so that I acquired God's deep knowledge. He/it seemed me that I was not anymore in the world: the whole light of the world appeared me darkness only. I was not able to pleased to converse hardly nor to have relations with no one, because my goodwill dragged me well quickly and forced me to speak of supernatural things, without I can contain myself. The souls of the Purgatory made themselves hear so in our house, that my brothers and sisters and the servants perceived some. It led unfortunately to numerous conversations and arrived to the knowledge of the public. The clergymen especially, interpreted it in pain for me and the Jesuits themselves felt a big displeasure of the things that the souls revealed to me. As for me, I was not able to some but, because such or such soul needed something that I had to reveal, and I didn't make anything that by spiritual obedience. One accused me of having revealed it of my own chief; one said that my confessor (P. Bilbis, S. J.), had acted too much according to my opinion. I would have need one said, of a good stern confessor, who held me in the strict obedience and one wished that I leave the P. Bilbis. I had, he/it is true, in my confessor, an indeed too soft father for my imperfect soul, but he/it required an obedience so prompt however, that I feared it more that all my previous confessors. When I noticed that he/it held good and didn't give up to me, I submitted entirely. It was me very beneficial; today I thank God again, for having arranged the things thus. I now recognize as I recognized it then already, that no guide was me more useful and more necessary than he. Always, my prayer asked God to condescend all to order, if his/her/its Church had to feel some some a pity, so that it was recognized and stopped. My manner not to make would have caused no wrong to that that this tût, but the untruths and all gossip that people had spilled in my name concerning the souls of the Purgatory caused the wrong. He/it didn't lack any people that, to win money, ran the houses saying: "Such and such soul is delivered" and gave themselves air of have been sent by me. For this motive and for a lot of other things that God permitted to humiliate me and purified me of my sins I was the object of horrible suspicions and one spilled on my account of the infamous subjects. These are precisely those that had spilled these noises that tried then by all means to make suspect me, probably because they saw themselves unmasked. One held me for a witch saying that what one could make of would be better to burn me on a stake; one also held me for a deceitful. But I didn't make any case of all it and since my conscience didn't blame me for anything, even the calumnies could not sadden me; I had mercy solely because of the souls of the Purgatory. To put an end to these slanders, God ordered in his Wisdom, that all I was forbidden. »

The day of the feast of the princes of the ap8tres S. S. Pierre and Pau1 1691, communication of this defense was given him officially by the dean of Notre-Dame, Mr. Von Constant, in the name of the obedience. The text mentioned expressly that it had to not rise the night more for the souls of the Purgatory. All in all, she/it writes I obeyed, I stuck to it and made it gladly. I would have liked to lose life better that to become disobedient. But my health began to alter itself/themselves, and I didn't have my good mine anymore; I also felt my strengths to decrease and endured such weaknesses in the head, that I was not able to anymore nor sleep, nor to stay up indeed. It made me suffer a lot internally. My spiritual father comforted me while recalling me that it was by obedience that I made it. Although I ran a lot of dangers of death because of the obedience, I yet saw that the obedience is of a strength and an extraordinary power. As I could notice it later, this obedience didn't harm in anything to the souls of the Purgatory: she/it carried them help. Me also, that year and up to course of the third year (it is the time that seems to have lasted this defense), I advanced a lot to the point of spiritual view, by way of purity of conscience, interior prayer and obedience and even in all virtues. Ever, until then, I could not have prayed as I was able to it in this time where I nearly remained without distractions, what I considered like a special grace. It was for me as if, of the sky, it rained some graces. " The souls of the Purgatory not daring anymore to wake it up, because they stopped them also to the obedience, it is his/her/its holy angel who provided to this office. "Of a clear and agreeable voice, my good guardian angel woke me at one early hour up, while calling me by my name. " God has in all his/her/its very holy views and doesn't permit anything without more serious motive. As he wanted to drive Marie-Anne of the outside in his/her/its inside and to direct it: "I want to drive the soul in the solitude; there I will speak at his/her/its heart" (Daring II, 16). Such was God's intention to bring closer it of his/her/its goal. "After this test (the interdiction), I came in the solitude where God spoke at my heart and where I felt attracted more more that before to one life more austere. Get married Anne Lindmayr becomes Carmelite

Apendice

S. O. S. (Save Our Soûls, save our souls!) It is the call of distress.
S. O. S., such is also the call that addresses us the souls of the Purgatory: save our souls!
"The rust of the sin is the gangue of the soul. It in is eliminated by the fire of the Purgatory. More this gangue detaches itself of it, more the light of the true sun - God - penetrates there. Joy increases therefore in measures it even where the soul opens up to the divine rays. So one grows and the other decreases until the delay fell. It is not the pain that decreases, but the time that remains to undergo it." Saint Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)

THAT THAT THE ROMAN CATECHISM TOLD US OF THE PURGATORY AND THE HELL

These places (the hells) are not all of the same species. A horrible, gloomy jail exists indeed, where the damned are tormented with the foul minds, by a perpetual and inextinguishable fire. One calls this place géhenne, abyss and actual hell (Act. 2, 24,; Mat th. 10, 28,; Luc 16, 22,; Apoc. 9,11). he/it exists besides a late purifier, where the souls of just purify themselves in sufferings of a determined length, until can open up for them the entry of the eternal homeland where nothing soiled would not know to penetrate there.
The vicar will stay up therefore with as much more of care to preach this based truth, as the holy Councils declare it, on the testimony of the writing Saint and the apostolic Tradition, since we arrived to one time where the men don't support the healthy doctrine anymore. A third, finally it is the one where was received the souls of the saints died before the arrival of Our Lord Jesus Christ and where they enjoyed a calm stay, safe from all suffering and sustained by the happy hope of the redemption. However these souls that waited for the Savior in the heart of Abraham, the Christ Our Lord delivered them while descending to the hells. The Christ's soul descended to the hells. Not only by his/her/its power, but really

Let's not go imagine while he/it descended to the hells in this sense that his/her/its strength and his/her/its power went there, and no his/her/its soul; what it is necessary to believe absolutely, it is that his/her/its soul herself descended to the hells, really and in substance, as this testimony proves it, so formal of David,: "You won't let my soul in the hells "(Ps. 15, 10).

The Christ's dignity didn't undergo any attack because of the coming down in the hells

But although the Christ descended to the hells, his/her/its omnipotence didn't undergo any attack of it; the burst of his/her/its holiness has not been tarnished some by the least stain. On the contrary, this fact proved the clearest manner than everything that one had said his/her/its holiness was perfectly true and that it was God's Son, as it had proven it before by so many miracles. We will understand it comfortably, if we compare between them the different motives for which the Christ and the other men came in this place. Because all others had descended there in captives, but him free and winner among the deaths (Ps. 87, 6), and in winner, to floor the demons who held these shut in souls and linked because of their mistakes. Besides, of all others, that were in these places, a part endured the most painful punishments, but the other, without feeling pains however, were deprived of God's vision, and reduced to hope for the blissful life for that they waited, and were punished thus. But Our Lord Jesus Christ descended to the hells non point to suffer in whatever it was, but well rather to deliver the saints and just of the weight miserable of this captivity and to apply them the fruits of his/her/its Passion. If he/it descended to the hells, it is without losing anything of his/her/its sovereign dignity and his/her/its power.

Let's not go imagine while he/it descended to the hells in this sense that his/her/its strength and his/her/its power went there, and no his/her/its soul; what it is necessary to believe absolutely, it is that his/her/its soul herself descended

What are the reasons that carried the Christ to descend to the hells

What it will be necessary to explain then, it is that Our Lord Jesus Christ not only descended to the hells to pull to the demons their spoils and to deliver of their jail the holy patriarches and the other just, but again to introduce them with it to the sky. It is what he/it accomplished an admirable and infinitely glorious manner. Because his/her/its presence immediately spilled on these captives most brilliant light and fills their souls of delights and a rejoicing infinite; and he/it put them in possession of this beatitude if wanted, that consists in God's vision, what achieved the promise that he/it had made to the good thief while telling to him: "Today same you will be with me in paradise" (Luc 23, 43).

This delivery of the good, Daring had it of the rest for a long time predicted in these terms: "Oh death, I will be your death! Oh hell, I will be your desolation" (Bone. 13, 14). It is it more that allusion made the Zacharie prophet when it said: "You by the blood of your alliance you delivered your captives of the pit also without water" (Zach. 9,11). It is finally what the apostle expressed by these words: "He/it stripped the principalities and the powers and delivered them boldly in spectacle while triumphing over them by the cross" (Collar. 11,15). But, to understand the range of this mystery better again, it is necessary to remind to our memory that it is not only the good that saw the day after the arrival of the Lord often, but also those that preceded it since Adam and those that will live until the end of the centuries, that owed their salute to the kindness of his/her/its Passion. It is why, before his/her/its death and his/her/its resurrection the doors of the sky were never himself open for no one. The souls of just while leaving this world, were transported in the heart of Abraham, or, as it is now again the case for those that have some stain to wash and some debt to pay, they were purified by the fire of the Purgatory. There is another motive for which the Christ descended to the hells again: is it to show his/her/its power and his/her/its empire as well as au sky there also and on the earth especially "so that to his/her/its Name all knee bent at the sky, on the earth and in the hells" (Phil. 2, 10). Who would not admire here God's immense goodness with regard to the human kind? who would not wonder, to see to accept it not only for us the cruellest death, but again to penetrate in the gloomiest depths of the earth to pull them ~ my who are so dear to him and drive them to the beatitude? What it will be necessary to explain then, it is that Our Lord Jesus Christ not only descended to the hells to pull to the demons their spoils and to deliver of their jail the holy patriarches and the other just, but again to introduce them with it to the sky. It is what he/it accomplished an admirable and infinitely glorious manner. Because his/her/its presence immediately spilled on these captives most brilliant light and fills their souls of delights and a rejoicing infinite; and he/it put them in possession of this beatitude if wanted, that consists in God's vision, what achieved the promise that he/it had made to the good thief while telling to him: "Today same you will be with me in paradise" (Luc 23, 43).

This delivery of the good, Daring had it of the rest for a long time predicted in these terms: "Oh death, I will be your death! Oh hell, I will be your desolation" (Bone. 13, 14). It is it more that allusion made the Zacharie prophet when it said: "You by the blood of your alliance you delivered your captives of the pit also without water" (Zach. 9,11). It is finally what the apostle expressed by these words: "He/it stripped the principalities and the powers and delivered them boldly in spectacle while triumphing over them by the cross" (Collar. 11,15). But, to understand the range of this mystery better again, it is necessary to remind to our memory that it is not only the good that saw the day after the arrival of the Lord often, but also those that preceded it since Adam and those that will live until the end of the centuries, that owed their salute to the kindness of his/her/its Passion. It is why, before his/her/its death and his/her/its resurrection the doors of the sky were never himself open for no one. The souls of just while leaving this world, were transported in the heart of Abraham, or, as it is now again the case for those that have some stain to wash and some debt to pay, they were purified by the fire of the Purgatory. There is another motive for which the Christ descended to the hells again: is it to show his/her/its power and his/her/its empire as well as au sky there also and on the earth especially "so that to his/her/its Name all knee bent at the sky, on the earth and in the hells" (Phil. 2, 10). Who would not admire here God's immense goodness with regard to the human kind? who would not wonder, to see to accept it not only for us the cruellest death, but again to penetrate in the gloomiest depths of the earth to pull them ~ my who are so dear to him and drive them to the beatitude?

WHAT TEACHES US HOLY THOMAS

He/it descended to the hells

As one showed it, the death consisted, for the Christ as for all man, in the separation of the soul and the body, but the divinity was if united indissolublement to the Christ-Man, that although the body and the Christ's soul had separated, the divinity remained perfectly united and to the body and to the Christ's soul. It is why God's Son was present with his/her/its Body in the tomb and he descended to the hells with his/her/its soul (Cf. S. Thomas. Summa theol. III leaves, qu. L, art. 51).

The Christ descended to the hells with his/her/its soul for four reasons.

1. The first is: to support all punishment of the sin and to expiate the whole mistake thus. However the punishment of the sin was not only the death of the body, there was also a punishment for the soul because the sin was also in the soul and so that 1'âme is punished while losing God's vision; punishment of the mistakes for which no satisfaction had been offered again. It is why, before the Christ's arrival, all, even the holy patriarches descended to the hells after their death. To take on him the whole weight of the punishment that weighed on the humanity sinner, not only the Christ wanted to die, he wanted more that his/her/its soul takes down to the hells. It is why he/it is told the psalm 87, 5,: "One counts me among those that descend in the pit, I am like a man at the end of strengths, free among the deaths. " The other were indeed there like slaves, but the Christ like a free man.

2. has a second reason of the Christ's coming down in the hells: to help all his/her/its friends. Because he/it not only had his/her/its friends on the earth but again in the hells (limbs). is indeed friend of the Christ whoever has the charity. Gold to the numerous hells was those that had died with the love and the faith in the future, such Savior Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moïse, David and of other just and perfect men. And since the Christ now visited visibly us on this earth and that he also came to their help by his/her/its death, he wanted to visit those of his that were at the hells also and to come to their help, while descending at home. "I want to penetrate all parts hidden of the earth and to visit all those that sleep and to illuminate those that hope in the Lord" (Eccli. 24, 45).

3. the third reason: to triumph perfectly over the devil. Indeed one perfectly triumphs over another when not only one defeats it on a field of battle but that one pursues it until in his/her/its own home and that one deprives it of his/her/its throne and his/her/its residence. However the Christ triumphed over the Bad, his/her/its enemy,: he/it defeated it on the cross; as has he/it says: "It is now, the judgment of this world; it is now, that the prince of this world is going to be thrown outside" (Joh. 12,31). But so that his/her/its triumph was perfected, it wanted to remove him the throne of his/her/its kingdom and to bind it in his/her/its home, that means in the hell. It is why it descended to the hells, it linked it and delighted him his/her/its prey. "He/it stripped the principalities and the powers, he/it delivered them boldly in spectacle, while triumphing over them by his/her/its cross (Coloss. 2, 15). in the same way, because the Christ received the domination and the possession of the sky and the earth, he wanted to get the power also on the hell, so that so, according to the apostle's speech "in the name of Jesus all knee bent at the sky, on the earth and in the hells" (Philipp. 2, 10), and to achieve the Christ's promise also "in my Name you will hunt the demons" (Marc. 16,17).

4. the last reason is: to deliver all Saints who were at the hells (limbs). in the same way, indeed, that the Christ wanted to undergo the death to deliver of the death the living, he wanted to descend to the hells to deliver those that there stayed. This is how the prophet already says: "In the blood of your alliance you will withdraw your captives of the pit without water" (Zach. 9, 11). "OH death, I will be your death, hells, I will be your desolation" (Daring 13, 14). Indeed, although the Christ annihilated the death completely, he didn't annihilate the hells completely; he/it only distressed them, because he/it didn't deliver all those that there was, but only those that were exempt of deadly sin and the original sin. Those that had been circumcised had been purified personally of this last; before the circumcision had been purified those that not having reached the use of the reason, by the faith of parents that professed the true faith, again of it and those that had reached the adult age, by the sacrifices and by the faith to the Savior to come (Cf. Sum. theol. III, qu. LXX> spec. art. 4 ads 1).

But they were kept again at the hells because of Adam's sin of which they could not be delivered that by the Christ since they were Adam's race. On the other hand he/it let those that there had descended with a deadly sin and the children there no circumcise (cf. Sum. theol. III, qu. LII, art. 7); and it is why he/it is said: "Oh death, I will be your death. " The Christ descended therefore to the hells for the motives that we have just indicated (to See to this topic Adds it of Saint Thomas) (III has leave, qu. 52).

We can pull a lot of there for our edification:

1. a strong hope in God, because in some distress that can be the man, he/it must always hope in God's help and have confidence in Him, because there is not anything more terrifying than to be in hell. So therefore the Christ delivered those that were at the hells, whoever are God's friend can have confidence that he will be delivered by him of all distress. "Her (the divine Wisdom) didn't abandon the rightly sold but she/it descended with him in the pit and didn't abandon it in his/her/its chains" (Sap. 10, 13). And because God especially helps his/her/its servants, the one that serves God can be especially in security. "The one that doesn't fear the Lord is afraid of nothing; he/it doesn't tremble, because God is his/her/its hope" (Eccli. 34,14).

2. a beneficial fear and the flight of the danger. Because, although the Christ suffered and descended to the hells for the sinners, he didn't deliver all those that there was of it, but those only that didn't have a deadly mistake as one told it higher. Those that had died in state of sins he/it let them over there. That no one hopes therefore for the forgiveness if he/it descends there in deadly sin state, because he/it will stay as a long time that the holy patriarches in hell in paradise, that means eternally. "They will leave to the eternal torment and just to the eternal life" (Mat th. 25, 46).

3. a real fear, because the Christ descended to the hells for our salute. We must therefore, us also, there to descend with fear, while considering these punishments, as Ezéchias made it, when he says: "I said, in the middle of my days I leave to the doors of the hells" (Isaïe 38, 10). Because the one that there takes down during its life by an attentive meditation, won't descend there so comfortably after the death: this consideration preserves the sin. We see indeed that in this world one avoids to commit some crimes by fear of the temporal punishments; how much more will avoid them one because of the punishment that is the hell, punishment how much bigger, so much in length that in rigor and in diversity. It is why the Sage says: "Think about your last ends and you won't sin anymore" (Eccli. 7, 40).

4. an example of charity. - The Christ descended indeed to the hells to deliver his of it; we must therefore, us as there to descend to come in help to ours, because they can rescue themselves themselves. It is why we must come to the help of those that is in Purgatory. He/it would be well hard of heart, the one that would not come to the help of his/her/its friend jailed,; but how much harder is the one that doesn't help his/her/its friend who is at the Purgatory, of which your punishments are not in anything comparable to the punishments of this world. With Job, the souls of the Purgatory shout us: "Have mercy of me, have mercy of me, you of the less that are my friends, because the hand of the Lord hit me! " (Job 19, 21). It is why he/it is said elsewhere: "It is a holy and beneficial thought to pray for the deaths so that they are delivered of their sins" (II. Macch. 12, 16). one especially helps them by three means of which speak to us S. Augustin: the Mass, the prayer, alms. S. Grégoire adds a fourth of them: the fasting. The reason is obvious of it: since in this world a friend can help his friend, it must be worth naturally also for those that are in Purgatory.


THE CHILDREN OF FATIMA SAW THE HELL

The most frightening mystery of the Christian faith is this "mysterium iniquitatis" - the mystery of the pain. The pain in the world is a reality and the consequence that finally ensuesome, the hell, is also he a truth. The Saint Writing attests in many places that the demon exists, that the hell exists, and that each must count with the possibility that it has to damn itself/themselves because of his/her/its mischief. There are hardly any saints that this thought filled fear; feared that a holy Theresa of Lisieux arrived for example only with pain to dominate. For the present time, a very brief document exists, but very important that one can call authentic. All Christian should take it of as much more seriously than many, nowadays, close the eyes owing this fact. The publisher makes himself/itself a duty of conscience to publish it here this testimony. It is about the vision of the hell that the three children of Fatima had. It is striking to note that this vision of the hell of Fatima agrees with the one of Marie-Anne Lindmayr. At the time of the third apparition, July 13, 1917, God's Mother confided a secret to the children. We mention it according to a classic work on the facts of Fatima.


The second secret

Twenty-five years after, the ecclesiastical authority judged the moment come of unveil in part the secret, for the a lot of souls,; as is measures of it to us to give communication of it.Here is what Lucie wrote by pure obedience and with the permission of the sky: The secret has three distinct, intimately related parts.

First left from the secret: the vision of I'enfers and souls that gets lost. While saying these words: "Sacrifice yourselves for the sinners and so-called often, especially when you make some sacrifices. " "Oh Jesus, it is by love for you, for the conversion of the sinners, and in repair of the outrages made at "Marie's Immaculate Heart the Virgin Saint separated the hands again as the previous months. The bundle of light protested seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw like a big sea of fire where was plunged the demons and the souls looking like transparent and black or tanned embers, with a human shape. They floated in the fire - ranges by the flames that left all sides - without weight nor balance, in the middle of screams and horrible howlings of pain and despair, that made to quiver and to tremble of terror! - It is probably to this view that I pushed this "Ouch! ", that the helpers tell to have heard! - The demons distinguished themselves by shapes horrible and repugnant of terrible, and unknown animals, similar to black and blazing brands. "This view lasted one instant, and we must thank our Mother of the Sky who had prepared us advance, while promising us to take us with It to the sky; otherwise, I believe that we would have died of terror and terror!" (Drawn of the book "The prodigy extraordinary of Fatima" by J. Castelbranco, 333rd one thousand 1968-1969. Edition: Center marial of Fatima, 83, RueArchimède, Brussels.) Three months later precisely, at the time of the sixth and last apparition, October 13, 1917, God's Mother accomplishes the big prodigy of the sun, in presence of 70 000 people,; prodigy of which spoke, at the time, the press from all over the world. This big prodigy who made on all s people presents an unforgettable impression, was a confirmation and an approval of everything that had happened; approval as one could not have imagined it more imposing.


PRAYERS FOR THE SOULS OF THE PURGATORY

Ancient Christian prayer for the deceased

God of all angels and all men, you defeated the death and the demon and gave life in the created world. Lord, grant the peace to the souls of your defunct servants to the popes, tothe bishops, to the priests, to the monks, to the benefactors of the church, to our forebears, to our fathers, brothers and sisters who rest here and everywhere; to the chiefs of the peoples, and to the soldiers who fell for their faith and their homeland; to the supporters slaughtered in civil wars, to those that perished drowned or by fire, or the cold weather; to those that have been devoured by ferocious beasts or that found a sudden death without repenting obvious; to those that didn't make up with the church and with their enemies; to those that, in the blindness of their mind, are given themselves the death; to all those that are recommended themselves to our prayers (to add here their names); to all those for that no one prays, that remained without ecclesiastical burial. Lord, give them rest in the stay of light, of peace, where there is not anymore nor illness, nor pain, nor sighs. Forgive them all sins that they committed by speech, joint-stock or thought. Oh God full of mercy, there nearly is not any human being who lived without sin. You only are without sin. Your truth and your speech are the eternal truth. You are the resurrection and life, you are for the deceased, rest. Oh Christ, our God, to you honor with your eternal Father and your very holy, merciful Mind vivificateur, now and always and in the eternity. Amen.

Let's pray. - Oh living God, you that know alone the number of the elected intended to the eternal happiness, make, please, that by the intercession of all saints the book where isregistered the names of the blesseds elected keeps the names of all those that are recommended themselves to our prayers, as well as the names of all supporters. Lord, God of mercy, grants to the souls of the defunct supporters the place of cooling, of happiness, of rest and the clarity of light. By Christ your Son Our Lord, who lives and reign with you in the unit of the Holy spirit, for the centuries of the centuries. Amen.

Prayer for the souls of the Purgatory 2

Oh Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a lot of your children are in Purgatory to purify itself/themselves. On the earth, you are a God full of mercy, but in the beyond, the souls are under the influence of your justice. They must remain there so much that they didn't pay until the last coin. Only fire can purify gold and their souls are a lot more precious than gold. They recognized that you are perfected and that nothing imperfect would not know to subsist before you; they burn themselves of the desire to purify itself/themselves of all spot of the sin and would know how to support their face only is not brilliant as the sun, their white garment as snow. Celestial father, we offer you for the acquisition of the souls of the Purgatory, the death and your Son's precious Blood; we implore of it to you by his/her/its pains: pacify their pains! You that live in an inaccessible light, make shine therefore soon on them your light and press the on your paternal heart. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, throws a look on the distress of the suffering church; she/it is notyour Wife, with the triumphant church of the sky, and the militant church of the earth? We offer you the love and the merits of your Mother and all Saints, but as all pains that the men have to support on the earth today. please, oh Jesus, be merciful for the souls of your brothers and sisters, who are again in walk toward you. Drive them soon in the eternal homes that you prepared them by the Father since the origin of the world. Mind-holy, that is one with the Father and the Son; God of love and life, Jesus promised you to us as Comforter; be also the comforter of the poor souls of the Purgatory; ease their torments! Return they in conformity with the picture and to God's resemblance as the Father created them, that the Son purchased them, than you oh Mind-Saint, the sanctified aces. That she/it must be beautiful and precious the human soul, so that God's Son endured, to save it, of so horrible torments! That he/it must be splendid, the sky and that he/it must be horrible the sin, so that it is necessary to undergo one so terrifying stage of purification to make worthy to see God the man who is the coronation of the creation! Unique God in three People, Father, Son and Holy spirit, we implore of it, by your Name, to you finish the work of their purification and increase the joy that the angels feel to see to enter just in the sky. And to us, grant the grace to accomplish works of mercy now, while he/it is time of it and to apply them to the souls of the Purgatory. Help us to live so that, with a pure heart, we found welcome by you, so that we can one day contemplate you face-to-face in your splendor.
Oh Marie, you that recovered Jesus in the Temple, make that these poor souls finally recover Jesus! You, angels of the Very High, drive the souls of the Purgatory to God. And you, Saints of the sky, precipitate yourselves to rescue your brothers and sisters. Amen.
Arnold Guillet

INDULGENCIÉES PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED

The prayers indulgenciées constitutes one of the most efficient means to help the souls of the Purgatory. The popes constantly came back on this point, that the doctrine and the use of the indulgences are founded on the Revelation. Saint Jean shows us in his/her/its Apocalypse a picture of a singular size: "The angel showed me a stream of life water, limpid as the crystal, that left the throne of God and the lamb (the Christ). very close to this stream has a grove of life trees giving twelve harvests, producing every month his/her/its harvest. The leaves of the trees serve to heal the pagan nations" (Apoc. 22, 1-3). One hears by there the means of sanctification of which arrange the church the Thesaurus Ecclesiae the treasure of the church that the Christ acquired us by his/her/its merits and to which we can draw all, as the Lords promised us it! "To that is altered, I will give the water of the source of life free "(Apoc. 21, 6). The doctrine of the indulgences is based on the power of the keys that the church possesses; on the satisfaction that the Christ offered for us and on the communion of the saints. The indulgence is the discount of the temporal pains due to the already forgiven sins; pains that we have again to undergo in this world or in the other, God forgave, but the sinner must give satisfaction" again until is paid the last coins. The supporters who are in good arrangements receive the indulgence to the fixed conditions, thanks to the help of the church that is the steward of the redemption and possess the power to distribute and to apply to each the merits of the Christ and saints. One cannot apply any indulgences to the living, but one always can - in the sense of an intercession - to apply them to the deceased. The indulgence is part of the spiritual works of mercy. Quite baptized that is not excluded of the community of the supporters, can win some indulgences under the condition to be in state of grace and to have the general intention to win them and to accomplish the prescribed works. But he/it must before all to have the good intention; he/it must be detached internally of the sin and attaché to God of all his/her/its heart and have full and whole confidence in God's infinite mercy. Did we already think that it is not only our defunct friends and our knowledge that wait for our help, but maybe also of the people of which we were the accomplices in the pain and who are punished maybe in part because of us? Let's recite thebrief prayers therefore often following jaculatoires, for the souls of the Purgatory. With time, these prayers will become our spiritual property and we will recite them by heart in such or such circumstance. We will learn to live in presence of God thus and to live in communion with the deceased, to form thus with them a living community. God wants that we make fructify the talents received him. We certainly act according to the views and the intentions of the God of mercy while exercising wear with the treasures of grace of the church that he/it placed so abundantly at our disposal. These works of mercy not only benefit our defunct friends but to ourselves and to the church all whole. To each of the prayers jaculatoires that follows is attached an indulgence. According to the new list of the indulgences entry in force January 1st, 1967 by the publication of the Constitution apostolic "lndulgentiarum doctrina" one doesn't indicate anymore, henceforth of number of days, but only: "to each of these prayers is attached a partial indulgence. One wanted to avoid thus that the supporters are tempted, in their prayers, to assign more weight to the quantity that to the quality. A sincere scream of the heart has more value by God that a long prayer.
Rent either the Saint Trinidad (Miss. rom.). The Christ is a winner! The Christ reigns, the Christ orders! Heart of Jesus, shining love for us, scorches our heart of love for you. Sacred heart of Jesus, I have confidence in you. Oh Queen conceived without sin, pray for us (Laughs. rom.). Saint Mother of God, always Virgin, pray for us (Brév. rom.). Lord, send some workers in your crop (Mat th. 9, 38). oh Marie, with your dear Son, condescend all to bless us (Brév. rom.). Hello, oh Cross, our unique hope (Brév. rom.). All holy and holy of God, intercede for us (Laughs. rom.). Pray for us, Saint Mother of God, so that we became worthy of Christ's promises (Laughs. rom.). Father, I put back my soul between your hands (Luc 23, 16). Merciful Jesus, give them the eternal rest (Miss. rom.). soft and humble Jesus of Heart, make our hearts similar to yours (Laughs. rom.). Rented and adored either forever the very Saint Sacrament. Lord, remain with us (cf. Luc 24, 29). Mother of the Pains, pray for us. You are the Christ, the Son of the living God (Mat th. 16, 16). Jesus, Marie, Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul, Jesus, Marie, Joseph, attend me to my last agony, Jesus, Marie,Joseph, make that I live and die in peace with you (Laughs. rom.).

The plenary indulgence

An indulgence maybe partial or plenary, depending on whether she/it erases entirely or partially the temporal pain due to the sin. One wins a plenary indulgence when, with the requisite interior arrangements, one accomplishes the prescribed works, for example the recitation of the Rosary, while filling the 3 following conditions: 1. the sacramental confession. 2. the holy communion. 3. the prayer to the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff. These three conditions are obligatory for all plenary indulgence. The prayer to the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff can consist in the recitation of a paternoster and an ave, or another prayer. For the people who very often confess, the confession is not necessary every time, but well the communion.

Prayers jaculatoires

My God and my All. Lord, have mercy of me that is a sinner (Luc 18, 13). Virgin Marie, make I worthy to rent you and give me strength against your enemies (Brév. rom.). Learns me to live according to your will, because you are my God (Ps 142,5). Lord, grant us the unit of the minds in the truth and the unit of the hearts in the charity. My Lord and my God (Jo. 20, 28). Soft Heart of Marie, be my salute. Glory to the Father, to the Son and to the Holy spirit (Miss. rom.). We adore you, oh Jesus and we bless you, because you purchased the world by your holy Cross (Brév. rom.).

To apply all indulgence is partial, either plenary to the deceased. Often give them this proof of love, that they appreciate infinitely and of which they will be eternally thankful to us. One distinguishes the plenary indulgence that one can win every day and the one that one can only win in some circumstances. One cannot win anymore that only one plenary indulgence per day.


a) plenary Indulgences that one can win every day

One can win every day a plenary indulgence by:
1. 1. the worship of the T. S. Sacrament during one half-hour at least (no 3).
2. 2. the Path of the Cross (no 45).
3. 3. the devout reading and meditated of the Saint Writing during one half-hour at least (no 50).
4. 4. the recitation of the S. Rosary in a church, a public chapel, in family, in religious community, or during an assembly of prayers (no 48).
•b) plenary Indulgences that one can win in various circumstances

One can win a plenary indulgence by:
1. the act of pope Magpie XI repair the first Friday of the month (26).
2. the act of consecration of Léon XIII the day of the feast of the Christ-King (27).
3. the reverence of the holy cross the Friday-holy (17). The indulgence of the Portioncule, while visiting the parochial church or cathedral August 2 or Sundays either preceding following. Prescribed prayers: 1 paternoster, 1 ave and 1 Creed (65). Commémoraison of the Supporters Died (November 2): Visit of a church or a chapel November 2 or Sundays previous or following. Prayers to recite: 1 paternoster, 1 ave, 1 Creed. Of the 1 to November 8, one can win every day this plenary indulgence whilevisiting a cemetery and while praying for the deceased (67). The renewal of the promises of the baptism at the time of the paschal vigil or the day of his/her/its baptism (70). While receiving the papal blessing, even to the radio or to the T. V. (12). plenary Indulgence at death's door, while receiving the apostolic blessing at death's door, even though no priest is present, and even in the event one would be in the impossibility to confess and to receive communion (Can. 468). One can win this very indulgence in the event one would already have won another one the same day (28). The Pope Paul VI writes: "Due to the hidden and rich mystery in graces of the divine economy of the salute, the men are bound the some to the other by a supernatural relationship. It is why the sin of one overnight to the many other. The Christian help themselves therefore mutually to reach their supernatural goal." (Constitution apostolic" Indulgentiarum doctrina" of January 1st, 1967).

SPIRITUAL WILL

In the name of the a lot of Saint Trinidad, the Father, the Son and the Holy spirit. Amen
I put back my soul between the hands of his/her/its Creator and Savior; my body to the earth, of which he/it has been formed. I give up all goods and terrestrial honors and want to attach my mind solely to what doesn't pass, to what is eternal, to God, my sovereign Well, my Savior, who will make my happiness, him, the Judge of the living and deaths. I regret all my heart all sins that I committed because I displeased to God thus. I am solved firmly to amend me and to more to commit no action that can dishonor me to my own eyes ever and to divert me from God. I forgive to all those that offended me and wished to me or makes the pain, and I ask God, the Father of all mercy, to condescend to forgive them also him. I believe what the Catholic church proposes me to believe. I hope, Lord, of your Mercy, the forgiveness of my sins and I wait for your Goodness and your infinite Love the eternal life. Everything that you will send to me, pains and joys, I accept it gladly to your hand. Your Wisdom, your Power and your Goodness are infinite, while I am only a weak creature to the limited views, and know a thing only: it is that highest wisdom is for me to submit me without condition to the divine conduct and to implore heart and mouth that your Will came true in me. I recommend myself to the intercession of the T. S. Vierge, S. Joseph, my good guardian angel and all saints, imploring them to really want to pray for me, so that I get God the grace to hold my good resolutions faithfully. I implore them to condescend to help me, especially at the hour of my death, and to ask the Lord to have mercy of me; to grant me the grace of a saint death and to be for me a merciful Judge. Amen.

PRAYERS TO ASK FOR THE GRACE OF A GOOD DEATH

Lord, I hoped in you, I won't be eternally disconcerted. Jesus, have mercy of me; Jesus, be I merciful, Jesus, forgive me my sins. Jesus, for you I want to live, Jesus, for you I want to die. Jesus, I am yours, to life and to the death. Jesus, Marie, Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul. Jesus, Marie, Joseph, attend me my last agony. Jesus, Marie, Joseph, make that I die in peace in your holy company. Oh Marie, help me!

To ask for a happy end
Please grant us the grace to make a saint death and to be indeed ready has our last hour, even at the most beautiful hours, the happiest and most important of our life. To comfort us to die and to have courage to live; to be ready has all to give, even life, by love for you, and to put the seriousness and the pleasure that you want, in the use of the days that you granted us. Amen. Mr. of life and the death, Christ, for whom we live and pimpernels, please make that your arrival at the hour of my death is not sleepy and non prepared, but awake, in good servant. Don't permit, please, that I leave this life without repenting, and surprised by a death without Sacraments. Fortify me and arm me owing the death by the Catholic faith, by a true repentance, a good confession, a worthy satisfaction for my mistakes, and make that I receive the holy Money and the holy unction of the patients. When will abandon me all perishable and temporary goods that one can possess in this world, don't surrender, in the last fight of this life, where I will have to fight against Satan in fury. Can your angels then to help me at the hour of my death; to protect me against all temptations on time where I will leave this world. They can comfort me then and can fortify me in my pains. Grant me, at this hour, a quick faith, a firm confidence, an ardent love and a big patience. Make that I get back fully conscious between your hands, and that I fall asleep in a holy peace; that I enter with security in your Kingdom, that you acquired us to one so big price. To the good thief himself you promised your Kingdom, for price of his/her/its belated repentance, and you gave it to him in your infinite goodness. Also remember me, Lord. Amen. (S. Pierre Canisius, doctor of the church).



Prayer to get the vigilance

I don't know of any moment if he/it won't be the last of my terrestrial life. And yet, I am of an indifference and a lightness such, that I only think rarely about my death. Who will pull me from this indifference and this lightness? Father I ask you with confidence this grace: learn me to intend my days to become aware of the briefness of my life, of the ignorance where I am of the hour of my death, and of the certainty of this death. Remind me every day how much fragile is the terrestrial life. Pull my heart to all pleasures of this world that I must leave so early and where I won't find what can calm my immortal soul. Only give me light, strength, courage to become each better day, to make something good and of useful, so that none of my days is lost for the eternity. Amen. (Johann Michael Sailer)

Prayers jaculatoires for the dying In the middle of life, here we are to the death. What help to find, otherwise you Lord? who is irritated exactly because of our mistakes? Holy God, Saint and strong! Holy and merciful, Savior! Don't abandon us at the bitter hour of the death. Kyrie eleison! (Notker the Stutterer, 840-912, Saint-Gall) Father, I put back my soul between your hands. Lord, have mercy of me poor sinner! Lord, remain with me, because in the evening tomb.

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Prayer in bed of death

My God, so such is your holy Will, I put back full of confidence my soul between your hands. I thank you for me to have created, of me to have welcomed in the Catholic church and me to have filled your graces. Forgive me of you to have offended by weakness. For love for you, I feel a deep to repent my mistakes and I would like them to have committed never. Accept like atonement all pains, all miseries and all worries of my whole life and my good will. My Savior, extinguish my debt by your precious Blood and make that I see your Glory soon. Saint Michel drives me with security on the path of the new life and rescue me in my anguish. Saint Marie, pray for me and for mine, that I let in the grief. Drive me to your Son, the King of Glory. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy spirit. Amen.

For those that are going to die today without Sacraments

Lord Jesus Christ, lean you, please that the terrifying death reaps. Many die without the help of the religion, without Sacraments. Oh come to their bed of death and make that their last thoughts are thoughts of faith, of love and to repent their sins. Make that the sufferings and the anguishes of their death are blessed by your cross. Also pacify their pains and make shine on them, at the most bitter hours than they will know has pass, the light of the hope. And grant us the grace to live in order to be always ready has die. Amen.

The souls of the Purgatory announce themselves again

In the Kampf of some time, the souls of the Purgatory restarted to announce itself/themselves at Marie Marie-Anne, letting him no respite until, on une-Eingriff of the P.Bilbis Sohn confessor, S.J., an alleviation was brought to the interdiction that had been made to him. Here is Anmerkung the venerable tells the fact: & laquo I have gotten neuer, in-Geheimnis, the Erlaubnis of, den ich her overnight and to ask stemme, but my spiritual father asked me, if I notice the presence of the souls of the Purgatory, of Dads there to make case, to continue to pray as I have the Erlaubnis of it and not to speak of it to anyone. & raquo during two years and half, Marie Marie-Anne Received as often as before the visit of souls of the Purgatory and as auf had acquired the Überzeugung that the noises deprived of foundation that had not circulated came Dads of it but that they had gießt authors of the Gene without confession, anxious of their only Gewinn, the interdiction decorated have been raised, although one made hopeless Erwähnung of it. The P. Bilbis feeling his/her/its Flosse to approach, wished to put back 0 in practiced Netzstroms this soul that he/it estimated to such a degree; with which during ten years, he/it had shared joys and pains, den and that had been he a light so brilliant on the path of the Vollendung gießt, Sie strömen, that she/it is delayed Dads but setzt to advance in the way of the strong Vollendung. & laquo The P. Bilbis had predicted me several times, that after his/her/its death, a big cross would fall on me, that I would have a lot to suffer, but that God would make me the grace of it, then ich would give a big light that ich would permit to really make a lot of to my neighbor. & raquo how far the good pastor of this soul chosen ein seen in the future, Sie werben, the rest of the wetteifert of the venerable will show it to us. & laquo I always recognized more, how much God was worthy to be liked and me obligated to like it and to serve it; I understood that I could not make anything of more pleasant to his/her/its Theologe Will, that to want, den to suffer much Sohnesliebschafts gießt, strömt, his/her/its glory and gießt the salute of the men. This desire ein grown more and more in my soul. & raquo Then my goodwill ich pushed to speak 0 in his/her/its presence: "Lord! I want that you look for your 0 in my soul, and that you 0 in her a pleasure as you in als ever 0 in no soul. I want to make you pleasure Level the cross and the suffering, to rejoice you as ever a soul didn't rejoice you since the world exists; I want to get you the grace that you send me as many sufferings as he/it will appear good to your Wisdom. If I consider Ton Liebschaft, I cannot make less, die Auto that you don't have Dads stood me gießen! I want to marry you in the suffering before all men, oh mon-Liebschaft. And if, infinite Affären, you don't want Dads to make it, I will say in the other world, before the whole celestial court,: & laquo Lord, I prayed you, to condescend ich to find worthy to suffer,; oder, now I don't have any mistakes more and you must achieve my desire. Me 0 in exchange no other reward otherwise to can, during the eternity to like you to the highest degree. & Marie-Marie-Anne-S'adressa raquo also, while moaning, to the souls of the Purgatory. She/it tells to them: & laquo OH you, my poor souls, the time of my death approach, and me won't be able to vous-Gehilfe anymore. Come, you also, in my Helfer now, gießt that I make a saint death. Help me! I made gießt you what I was able to; I had a lot to suffer in Ursache from you. Werben Sie it, I made it gladly gießt you. & Ein raquo these words, auf heard on the Strecke of the tears to you Kotflügel the heart and the howlings. It lasted until the Moment where I thought that the souls of the Purgatory didn't see Dads my death with peasure. WerbenSie became then quiet. In my big distress, I ran at my spiritual father, gießt to expose him my worry, my anguish, my pain. Me him miß that it would be a Motiv being sufficient gießt me aliter but that God him want-dads. Seeing Ich so afraid and so dejected, leP.Mandl tried to encourage me, and him ich spoke seriously but in a friendly way; him ich says to hand of it to me to Theologe Will and to abandon me gibt entirely the Netzstroms of God ein; I had to think that constantly God had liked me, and had demonstrated me his/her/its mercy. As I had to ich to comfort and Dads to fea what God would make me, but to make wirbt that to what me mir would feel attracted, and God ich would give its grace surely. & raquor

Tests on behalf of the ecclesiastical Authorities

The contradiction that Marie-Anne met on behalf of the big mass, in the achievement of the mission that God had confided to him, all as the conviction that everything that comes indeed of God must arrive by the ecclesiastical authority established by Him, made that she addressed the prince-bishop of Freising in writing to ask him for the approval of his/her/its mind. Here is the text of his/her/its letter: "Very reverend and very gracious prince and Lord! I come to you in mind like a small sheep to his/her/its pastor, to ask you by God to want to really have mercy of me, because I need your paternal help. Since eight days and eight nights, I endure on behalf of God the Holy spirit a big constraint; she/it is such, that I would not live anymore, if the obedience to my confessor, the R. provincial P., had not kept me in this world. But the danger is going to increase again, and this night the Christ exhorted to me to submit me to the high Authorities according to God's Will. I have been pushed to ask that one puts my mind to the test and that some very educated men examine me and put me seriously to the test. Such was God's will. That if this mind is judged good, a higher obedience must be given me to accomplish what God indicated to me. In all submissiveness, I ask your sovereign Grace therefore very humbly to really want to help to keep me life and to order to the earliest what God wants me. I recommend myself to your sovereign Grace with a whole submissiveness and ask you to keep me your kindliness. The unworthy of Your Grace. Given May 19, 1704. Get married Anne Lindmayerin.

This letter, she/it didn't send it directly to his/her/its Excellence the prince-bishop of Freising, but she/it addressed by letter to make put back it, to the kindliness of the spiritual adviser and secretary of the prince-bishop, Mr. Thomas Passauer in Freising, with that she/it was in friendly relations. The prince-bishop Johann-Franz Ecker Kapfing von Lich,teneck und wrote its own hand "to our devout and particularly dear Marie-Anne". It gave him his/her/its Episcopal blessing, reached his/her/its demand and granted to what the investigation was driven there. May 21 already, were named to this effect, by Episcopal letter, the P. Caspar Mandl, S. J., former confessor of Marie-Anne; besides, the provincial of the Augustinses, the P. Colomban Humpel (t 1708), the ex-provincial of the Franciscans, and the P. Barnabé Kirchhuber, confessor, in the Anger convent, for examimer very seriously and to the earliest the mind of Marie-Anne, because there was peril her of it stays (periculufi in mora). TO the same date, a written document also arrived to the provincial of the PP. Carmes. The provincial, P. Candide of S. Elisée, confessor of the venerable, was asked to deputize to this effect a father very qualified of his/her/its order in the name of the prince-bishop and to instruct it, so that, only, without the aid of another theologian, he/it examines seriously, according to his/her/its own demand, named it Marie-Anne of Jesus. The provincial P. confided this task to the provincial définiteur, the P. Franz Ernest of S. Philippe. These examiners immediately gaze at to the work. The acts, that exist again prove that this investigation was led in all points in an extended manner and deepened. In the protocol of the P. Barnabé Kirchhuber, one makes come out again in particular (No 26) that Marie-Anne never endured a no trouble physics. The prince-bishop was satisfied very of the results of the investigation. He placed the venerable completely under the obedience of his/her/its spiritual director and confessor, the P. Candide of S. Elisée, provincial of the Carmeses. The venerable Marie-Anne addressed by a very humble letter of May 17, 1704, to the prince-bishop, expressing him his/her/its thank you the most cordial and most filial for the exam that had been made of his/her/its mind. The result of this investigation was again for it a bigger interior consolation, and an unconditional grant of herself to God, so heavy that could appear him mediator's mission between God and the men. Marie-Anne stayed now in the waiting: where God had it he placed, while telling to him: "Constantly call; as a trumpet, do raise your voice and announcement to my people his/her/its vices and home of Jacob his/her/its sins" (Is. L VIII, 1)? The venerable tells us to this topic in his/her/its "Newspaper: "January 18, 1705, the Reverend P. François-Xavier Amryhn,S.J., came on behalf of the prince-bishop of Freising, with the letter that I had sent January 12 in Freising. He/it had with me an interview. He/it also questioned me on the souls of the Purgatory. Before leaving, he/it recommended me two souls: two of his/her/its brothers of which one had died provided with the spiritual help, the other all alone, without sacraments. He/it asked me to give him answer until tomorrow: he/it will send me someone early: at six o'clock. I prayed with process for these two souls that I was recommended and I carried before God their memory in a fervid prayer during the night. My only desire was to rejoice God's servant by a good news. He/it came then a soul; she/it appears to me as sister of the P. Amryhn, again in Purgatory. A certain time after verse midnight, arrived in my room a character with the very beautiful face. He/it had the turned skywards look, carried the dress of Jesus' company and a beautiful surplice. Soon after, made itself hear in the neighboring room an uproar so frightening, that I would not know how to describe it. I also heard, in this room, an uproar and an awful noise of chains that one dragged, active and coming very near of the furnace. It fills me of fear; I was seized of a fear that I had never felt until then. Then I discerned a big noise: the noise of a vomiting, as if someone absolutely vomited all. The thought came to me that it was a soul of the Purgatory that had sinned a lot by drinking it and to eat it. I asked God not to permit that the soul that was in the neighboring room can enter in my room, and to preserve me of this frightening mind and others bad similar minds. At the end of one very short time, all became quiet and nothing made itself hear more, but I prayed a long time again, lay down then. When came the moment of the rising, I immediately rose and immediately dressed, without lingering, without even to make a prayer, I executed what I imposed the obedience well quickly, without addressing me first to the Holy spirit (as I usually make it), to ask him to illuminate me, and to make know me what was this apparition. I wrote in hurry, no without God's permission, that I believed that his/her/its brothers were already at the sky, since they had not presented themselves to me. I didn't speak of his/her/its sister. At six o'clock, the letter was ready; one came to look for it at half-past six.Next, I was going to make my prayer in the chapel. As soon as I had gotten in presence of God, satisfy to have obeyed, I had the soul in the peace. But sudden God spoke to me and asked me why I had not recommended him it first in my prayer. He/it worried of quick reproaches, taught me that I had not understood the question that had been asked me, and demonstrated me very clearly that I had not written rightly. Two brothers had been designated me; I had seen in them of the brothers according to the flesh. It was not the father's thought; he/it wanted merely to put me to the test to see if my revelations came of God or no. He/it didn't say a false thing... He/it thought about two brothers: in the first place, S. François Xavier and in second Judas place the traitor. Judas, him, had received communion but shamefully, while S. François Xavier had died all alone, without receiving the sacraments. It is to these two that the P. Amryhn had thought. But God permitted it to lower me and to humiliate me. Then, I wrote what had happened again; I immediately sent my letter. At half-past nine she/it was already, at the college. What welcome does she/it have receipt? I don't know anything of it because one doesn't have me reparlé of it. But by what is resulted some I could judge that she/it had not been welcomed well. A short time after, at the end of the month of January, he/it has been revealed to me that I had to expect a snub. One showed me the dresses that I wear usually torn like old herds that one would have thrown in a pestilential ditch and him me was said at the same time: "You are despised like an old dress. »

It made me remember also that for God I let myself put side for all, and whatever is there the pleasure of his/her/its divine Majesty of me to resign especially if he/it wants that I am to the shame. I offered myself to all to accept except the sin and the diabolic possession. In the meantime, I had joy in the Lord and I waited quietly for what he/it would permit. The test didn't linger. February 6 happens to a decree of the ecclesiastical advice "by order" of His/her/its Grace the prince-bishop. I have been exhorted internally to recite, before reading, three times the You Deum, because of what I would learn this decree. He/it proved to be that all was based on this revelation. If I had immediately given in writing the good answer, as I made it then, one would have admitted that it was the Holy spirit that had revealed everything that I had written to Freising concerning Austria. The received decree clearly told me strong that all was considered like imaginations, weaknesses, illusions. In this test, I rented God and am let me humiliate. All I was defended: the prayer of night, the worry of the church of God and the big houses (palace), I had to live as the other, to put also thin to my big fastings from where came these weaknesses. Since this February 6, I didn't feel anymore either of appeal to write or to make whatever it is, and as soon as I have received the obedience of it, I will also stop fasting. Then him I was ordered to lead an active life instead of the contemplative life. All it, I made it gladly and didn't endure violence anymore on behalf of God: all was quiet in me, what has me strong comforted. Until 1711, I led a more active life therefore, I felt the extremely happy soul, and I received God of big graces. I raised a lot of children for the convents, received a house for the establishment of a convent; in short, God blessed for me all things, as if all had increased. I didn't have any distraction in my prayers; I could make them quietly, as if I had been in a constant contemplation. It is whereas I could see what big blessing indeed carries in her the obedience. God is rented! I now see it: all it had to arrive and I feel currently of as much more of pleasure to be in the house of the Lord. I would not feel absolutely happy in my soul if I didn't have anything to suffer. " But all it cannot stop the course of the big events, nor to influence it, because the obedience, far from making obstacle ever, encourages all. God himself gave the proof that Marie-Anne had seen well, surely, spoken well and very written. The unbelievers transfer to achieve itself/themselves his/her/its unfavorable predictions soon; they last to recognize that God doesn't threaten in vain; that to the patience and to mercy follows the justice and that whoever doesn't want to hear must to suffer finally toughly.

He/it often came me to the idea to lead in the world the life of a Carmelite, because when I thought about my sister's big happiness Mr. Jeanne-Theresa of S. Wenceslas, that was Carmelite in Prague, I was filled of sadness and I felt in my heart a quick pain not to have received of God this grace. But I put the mistake of it on my sins and my indignity, because I was unworthy to live was this the worse recess of the world. Of course, I was happy with God, but that of tears I poured because of the life of the cloister! I would have browsed the whole world on the move to have this happiness. But God didn't want it. The day of the feast of our blissful Father S. Joseph, I wanted to make my exercises of piety in the church of the Carmelites. He/it came me sudden this thought, after the communion,: "Why not to apply me to imitate my sister Mr. Jeanne-Theresa and not to enter in the holy order? One can become also Carmelite in the world, if one wants: hopeless need to enter to the cloister for it. " This thought and the ardent desire to achieve it, didn't leave my mind anymore. When I spoke of it to my confessor, he/it was happy of it and recognized that this appeal came of God. I headed according to his/her/its advice and I looked elsewhere with confidence for what I could not find here. On my humble written demand, the P. Franz Ernest, then prior of Regensbourg, accepted me and admitted. The day of the feast of the S. Scapulaire, July 16, 1687, at five o'clock, I donned the big scapular, on very hour where the prior formulated its intention to admit me thus also in mind in the order of the Carmel.C'est under the P. Franz Ernest that I made my year of novitiate, living faithfully according to his/her/its prescriptions, for what concerned the holy order. As for the exercises, it is my confessor, the P. Bilbis that directed me. In 1691, August 8, the Carmelites held chapitre.A this moment, I implored God in an ardent prayer, to condescend to order, for the good of my soul, that my spiritual father, the Ingenuous Father of S. Elisée, becomes prior. The souls of the Purgatory helped me to pray for this spiritual father of which I had big need and that God - I knew it - had chosen for my soul of all eternity. »

The P. Ingenuous was named prior of the convent of the Carmelites of Munich indeed. With the knowledge and the assent of the P. Bilbis, S. J., he/it undertook to guide Marie-Anne to the point of spiritual view, without being to this moment his/her/its confessor. "The P. Candide exhorted to me to stay hidden and not only he/it valued what this order is observed in all firmly, but it submitted me enoutre to various tests. In the beginning, the Shrewd suggested me of the thoughts hostile to him, so that a lot of things weighed me coming of him a lot. " "As the P. Candide expressed its manner very honestly to see, I believed that he/it didn't know me sufficiently and didn't know that I had made everything because God wanted it thus of me. I thought: my spiritual father doesn't know me indeed, otherwise he would not use any such words, because him there arien in my heart that is for the glory of God and the neighbor's salute. It was not a small cross for me, and it often caused me trouble. His/her/its words were in conformity with the healthy reason and thought very well, according to the teaching of the church, but in spite of it, I feared not to be guided by him according to God's will. I had to many times to defeat me myself, to confess him finally that he/it didn't speak according to my sense. To what he/it answered that it was necessary for me to take what of good had and there to add something better and of more perfect so that God can act in my heart. I recognized then how much I valued my own judgment again, how much until then me I was exercised little to the obedience, since he/it cost me so much of it to bend me. I believed to have arrived already to a high degree of obedience whereas I didn't manage from afar again to submit my judgment.


I have the conviction that God sent the P. Candide all express to drive my soul to Him. " In 1691, in the evening of the feast of our Mother Saint Theresa, with the permission of the provincial Father and the P. Lucas of S. Gérard, I have been received effectively in the holy order of the Carmel and have been donned of the holy dress in my room, by my father spiritual P. Candide, and to the big joy of the P. Bilbis my confessor. I chose the rule primitive of strict observance for the big consolation and the profit of my soul and me am hired to observe the rule of the order as much as one can make it in the world; to abstain forever me of meat and to practice the exercises of penitence and the prescribed prayers. Here it is what is for me the rule to follow in the state layman: 1. so much that I am in good health, it is for me a duty to abstain me of meat. 2. every day, I must recite 80 Paternoster and Ave and if I have the time, to dedicate every night two hours to the mental prayer, of it. 3. to raise me at 5 o'clock. 4. to give me the discipline 4 times per week and to carry 3 times the cilice. 5. my bed must only consist in a bag of straw and a cover. 6. I must, permit it, to observe the silence, as much as the circumstances. Such are my obligations. Him I am not defended to make some more, but I must ask for the permission of it. It is only then, that I had to learn to practice the obedience, and to live according to the virtue. I could continue my deprivations and could fast three times per week to bread and to water. one year after, in the evening of the feast of our Mother Saint Theresa precisely, I made my religious profession before the P. Candide, prior, that gave me on this occasion the names of Marie-Anne, Josèphe of Jesus. The religious profession filled me with happiness and this holy order was my biggest joy. Every time that I thought of it, I was delighted with to have become nun of this holy order and felt encouraged to show evidence of a continual goodwill to stretch to perfection and to observe the saint faithfully adjusts. An interior voice told to me that I had to wonder more in the future if something was sinned or pain, but if it was perfected and saint.Si something was not perfected, I had to abstain me of it, at the risk of not to arrive to perfection. I must especially watch all over my words and must place a sentry owing my mouth, not to sin by the language, because that one is perfected, that doesn't sin by the language" (Jesus Sirach XIV, 1).

In the continuation, sick and bedridden Marie-Anne, removed during five weeks his/her/its big scapular. She/it was invited to put back it and has carry it continually. "A girl of an extraordinary beauty I appeared and invited me to put back the scapular that I carried in place of saint dress. " In 1699, in the night that preceded the Epiphany, Marie-Anne renewed her wishes. Here is what she/it tells us to this topic: "In manner of gold I intended to exercise me to the charity, while making acts of love; in manner of incense, I intended to offer to God most beautiful virtue: the humility, like an incense of pleasant odor, and in manner of myrrh, not to ask for anything God otherwise the suffering. " Marie-Anne participated with the biggest ardor in everything that concerned the order of the Carmeses. The sharing of the province that took place in May 1701 and divided the former province in two: a province of Austria and one of Bavaria, made suffer a lot from his/her/its heart and moved it deeply. It is probably this event that was reason of the long journeys) very laborious at the time, that made the venerable in Prague and in Graz. The P. Theodore, who was then prior in Vienna and that opposed with the biggest vigor to this division, seem he to have caused of this fact a lot of pains.

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