⚡️ILLUMINATION OF CONSCIENCE NOW⚡️ - Fr. Mark Goring, CC
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♥️ “In a moment I was in a misty place full of fire in which there was a great crowd of suffering souls. They were praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; *only we can come to their aid.”* - St. Faustina (Diary, 20)
Praying for the souls of my dearly departed loved ones, and all of the faithful departed, on All Souls Day and always. 🙏🏼
🙏🏼 *Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.*
♥️ “The holy souls are eager for the prayers of the faithful, which can gain indulgences for them. Their intercession is powerful. *Pray unceasingly. We must empty Purgatory.”* - St. Padre Pio
*Prayer of St. Gertrude the Great for the Souls in Purgatory*
🙏🏼 Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen.
(Our Lord promised St. Gertrude that 1,000 souls would be released from Purgatory every time this prayer is said devoutly.)
♥️ “If, during life, we have been kind to the suffering souls in purgatory, God will see that help be not denied us after death." - St. Paul of the Cross
♥️ “No one is barred from Heaven. Whoever wants to enter Heaven may do so because God is merciful. Our Lord will welcome us into glory with His arms wide open. The Almighty is pure however, and if a person is conscious of the least trace of imperfection and at the same time understands that Purgatory is ordained to do away with such impediments, the soul enters this place of perfection gladly to accept so great a mercy of God. *The worst suffering of these suffering souls is to have sinned against Divine Goodness and not to have been purified in this life.”* - St. Catherine of Genoa
*Purification Prayer* (by: Father Mark)
🙏🏼 Lord, purify me in this life, so I don’t have to be purified in the next. Amen.
💀Memento Mori 💀
♥️ Viva Cristo Rey! ♥️
Thank you for sharing this! I heard Purgatory is painful and the longing to be with God is too. We should all be praying for ourselves and loved ones throughout the day!🙏
Amen 🙏
Father Mark Goring you are the best! I am just like you! Very impatient! And I want no part of purgatory and have been laughed at for saying so. As if I think I am that holy. I absolutely do not but I hesitantly ask God to give me an illumination of consciousness so I can make myself better now. Keep giving such wonderful homilies Father, you are very inspiring! Viva Cristo Rey!!!
Thank You Fr.Mark @terriomalley181 ❤
I sometimes think this life is purgatory.
I heard it suggested that you can ask your guardian angel to show you your faults. This way you start seeing them, like an illumination or conscience! Only you don't have to wait, you can start now. This showing means you can then ask God for graces to overcome and change. I do appreciate the guardian angels!
There is nothing in the Bible to confirm such a belief. When we read the commandments of God according to (Exodus 20 or Deut.5) we can easily find where we fail before God, no need for angels to make us aware of the moral law of God.
I agree with you! Our guardian angel stands before God with our prayers and petitions. I believe the illumination of conscience is coming to the whole world very soon!🙏
@@mec325 we have blind spots so it is sensible to ask a friend to help us recognize our faults. I consider an angel who is not among the fallen but assigned by God to help me a friend. No need to “read” anything. You ask, then go about your day and it happens that you will start recognizing faults as you stumble over them.
This comment will save so many souls. I read this and was like…. Wow, I never thought of that! If you hadn’t of shared this pearl of wisdom, i wouldn’t have been able to ask for that little bit of extra help! Thank you Lord!
Great idea❤
What a wonderful, powerful message! God bless you Father Goring ❤
excellent homily, Fr Mark! 🙏 I totally agree, I've said the same prayer myself, asking our Lord to purify me in this life to not have to suffer more in Purgatory,there's enough suffering in this life so get it over with! I think your homily is a big help for us laity to 'get with the program'!
Great information! Get more biblical lessons at Coffee with the Goose!
God WANTS us to go straight to heaven, so it’s definitely NOT selfish to give God what He wants.
I'm pretty sure this priest is on his way to heaven . I've been listening to his channel for a long time, and he is still so humble and a really good priest . Lucky are his parishioners. Greetings from Poland .
Lord, I don't want to miss the boat! 🌠
Fr. Mark Goring, Bless You Forever and Forever a
Always.
I’m with you Fr. Mark. You have a beautiful desire for heaven. St. Therese pray for us. 🙏❤️
Father Mark ,you are one of a kind,humble,human and kind I,m so greaful to receive your message every day.
Thank you Fr. Mark, nice to inow I'm not the only impatient person in the world
I just love the way you explain things. ❤ Thank you Lord for Fr. Mark
WE HAVE A COMMAND FROM GOD . "BE HOLY BECAUSE OUR LORD IS HOLY".
Every time. Every damg time.
Just when my day was in the dumps, Fr Goring hits another home run out of the park with his homily.
My mom just passed. She suffered during her life so I hope she didn’t go to purgatory. I immediately had the 30 Gregorian masses said for her. Hoping the tradition works for her.
Condolences Cindy 🙏🏻
You’re a good daughter, I’ve promised my parents the same thing. Praying for your mother!
@bl8596 Thank you for praying for my mom. I appreciate this greatly.
I did the same thing for my Mom-Dad-Brother.
That is wonderful. May I ask which church you found that will do the 30 Gregorian Masses? Useful to know.
Oh yes, St. Gertrude said a penny’s worth of suffering here is worth a ducat there, in purgatory. Yes, the devil wants us to be afraid. I asked the very same thing a long time ago, to do my purgatory here. Charity is huge plus especially for the Holy Souls. I read this the other day and I thought it was brilliant. Someone said when they pray the St. Gertrude prayer for the Holy Souls they use the rosary. The prayer releases 10000 souls each time it is said devoutly x’s 59 beads that’s 59 thousand souls released! Outstanding! ❤
God bless u Padre
Father Mark, you yourself are on fire with the love of God and are leading us to Heaven. Thank you for all the inspiration. God bless you; I'll pray for you and your parishioners.
The 12 steps of AA is a great help to see your impurities. And guide me closer to my Heavenly ❤ Father ❤❤
I'm so glad he brings up his experience catching himself in impatience in traffic! If we get road rage, and let it in our driver's seat, we have work to do in our OWN walk as Christians, and ought to not use judging others as a distraction from the plank in our own eye.
May God bless all of you people and your families and your closest ones!🙏♥♥ AMEN!🙏☺
Lord have Mercy on us.🌹
Amen Father Mark Goring! GOD BLESS YOU
One Saint I read or listened about recently said "The people in purgatory go there because they did not desire heaven enough" DESIRE HEAVEN forget about settling for purgatory. Desire to be with God for eternity forget about hoping just to get saved. Desire God because He is God. Lord how I long to be enveloped by your presence and united with the Saints and to see your most Beautiful Mother and to thank the Angels in person.
November 12, 2023
Thank you Father. I understand the impatience.
I laugh when I hear you, Fr., because I have the very same thoughts of impatience and frustration. My 74 years have been successful but also anguished by my love of the LORD. Many trials have come my way. You’re right, purification is a lot easier here than in Purgatory. So I say,”Thank you, God, for this purifying trial given in love so I won’t spend a long time in Purgatory.” We must be tried in the refiner’s fire, like gold, silver, and special steel. It’s worth it. As Jesus said, the world to come is 100 times better than anything on earth. ✝️
Dear Father,
25 minutes of traffic jam is a great gift from Mother Mary…it’s time for a Rosary or “Roadsary” or a “Jamsary”😊
i used to get super agressive in these situations too until i realized….in any waiting line or traffic jam….i can pray the Rosary🙏🏻🕊🌺🕊🙏🏻 since then i’m actually glad for the “waiting time” because it’s a wonderful prayer time with Mother Mary.
And yes absolutely…no purgatory…the goal is great holiness…straight to Heaven bringing many many many souls along with us!!!
Sufferings in purgatory can’t increase our love for God…but each cross in this life carried in abandonment with and for Jesus allows us to increase in our degree of love for God. We pray that we never waste a single cross…which is in reality a kiss from God.
i love this from todays Vespers:
Concluding Prayer
God our Father,
the contradiction of the cross
proclaims your infinite wisdom.
Help us to see that the glory of your Son
is revealed in the suffering he freely accepted.
Give us faith to claim as our only glory
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
-Amen.
DISMISSAL
May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life.
- Amen.
🙏🏻Praise be to JMJ!🙏🏻
That prayer IS scary, but, I've prayed it. So The Kind Lord reminds me, of my prayer when it's all too awful.
A nightly examination of conscience, done in a spirit of prayer, is very useful to help advance in the spiritual life. Did I mention I am looking into a mirror while I’m typing this? - because I REALLY need to step up my game. The sacrament of reconciliation opens up the floodgates of grace and allowing God to exercise and strengthen your conscience, will help God remove vice and build virtue in your/our lives.
Thank you for your Love poured out on the cross and the gift of the resurrection our Beloved Lord Jesus! We open our hearts, minds and wills to you! Lord Holy Spirit recreate us in your gift of baptism and may the gifts and fruits you’ve given us flow more freely! Purify us and make us like you. Please remind us throughout every day to step back and look at ourselves and our actions as you see us and help us to follow you (“He leads me in right paths for His name’s sake” Psalm 23). Amen, and Amen Lord.
I had that in 2018… I stopped drinking totally, I confessed over and over again, I returned to church, I made preparations to receive my Confirmation at my old age but I wanted it, I pray daily listen to Catholic podcasts daily, listen to Father Mike Schmitz and Father Mark also Relevant Radio. I don’t care about the wants of this secular world. I am not perfect but I’m trying and hoping for forgiveness in this life because I don’t want to go to Purgatory either. My life has been filled with more challenges than others… I won’t go into them here but all I say is Count your Blessings of health and family every day because in an instant they can be gone. I discovered the word Metanoia in 2018 and that began my journey back to the Lord. 🙏
A testimony to be sure, Thank you for sharing may God bless you for being a witness to His Love and Mercy.
I can only trust in God's mercy, love and grace, because otherwise you know what would be scary? I lived a life of sin, then the Lord turned my journey around pretty powerfully, nevertheless God has always been very gentle on me and my life. I guess I should think about Fr. Mark's prayer.
God is good…all the time. ❤️🕊
Patrick Madrid really helped me. I want to him so bad.
@@lumpichu Gentle, yes, God is with me, too. He permits extremely difficult things, but He is gentle. He created us just SO, knowing exactly how intricately individual we are for His specific purposes. I know being a Saint Paul would be impossible for me. That was the sort God made him and He treated Paul quite a bit harshly!
His ministry needed that kind of tested faith. You have a call. I have a call. God deals with us in ways that fit and sustain us for it precisely. Isn't that comforting to know?
He knows every hair on my head, and every one left in my hairbrush this morning. I'd say no one else is that attentive to me!
A "reflectionnary" homily, I bow to the Spirit of God 😮
Have a blessed day Fr...amen 🥰🤲👑🕊🙏
I cherish every one of your posts. Thank you Father!
Lets watch more to our Lord and forget ourself . We re too much occupied with ourselves, our sins..... forget u re self and only watch God and u will become like Him. Amen
I love this priest. He helps us try to walk the royal road. He is genuine, holy,full of Christ. God knows we need him.
Great words of encouragement.love God almighty with all your being.🌹🕊️🌼
God bless you Farther Goring. Thank you for your uplifting words. Amen
Yes! Amen 🙌
YES ... do it now .... be prepared for a wild ride if you mean this prayer ... BUCKLE UP !
Plenary indulgences this week for loved ones in purgatory! See octave of all saints
I learned patience when I had my children. I still need it, God is helping me. He has helped me so much. I don’t want to offend Him. As in today’s 11/5 homily from our priest, when we make the sign of the cross before the Gospel reading. Always have the Lord on our mind, heart and speak the gospel everyday. God is always on my mind and in my heart. I just said to one of our volunteers who’s in her 80’s that she swears too much & she couldn’t believe what I had just said to her. Maybe I was too blunt but they know how strong my faith is. These days so many people are lost and the people I work with just don’t want to hear it. It’s frustrating yet I continue to pray. Doing this alone is hard. I volunteer at St. Vincent’s de Paul and I’m like WHERE ARE THE TRUE CATHOLICS??????? I also volunteer at a different store where the elder woman kept swearing. Maybe I should just leave that place, it’s a thrift store but it’s also for helping the homeless. I was just offered to be manager of the store🤷♀️
Jesus i trust in you
One of the 15 promises of praying the Rosary daily is that we will be delivered from Purgatory. God bless you all!!
I invite the Lord Jesus Christ to fill me daily with his holy spirit, and forgive me of my sins.
Thank you father mark God bless you
Fr Mark , thank you. YES prune dear God..I wanna to heaven, and yet not alone...Cleanse me kind of King David prayer.
Let's all make the five first Saturdays 🙏 November 4 is first Saturday
What time is it?
I luckily finished my five first Saturdays on September 2nd. Now I’m working on my nine first Fridays. today is my seventh. Since I go to the Latin mass, my first Friday mass is at 12:30 PM so I have a little bit of time before I have to leave.
Father Mark, that's exactly what I have asked from our dear Lord. Let me go through all the pain and crap in this life on Earth so I don't have to go through it in purgatory and I'm pretty certain that that's what I'm going through & have been for quite a while. Not fun but better here than there. God bless you always for your great messages. Romy33
Yes Father God purify me Amen ❤ VIVA CRISTO REY
❤thank you Father. Yes we don’t want to go to purgatory. We want to go to heaven where our Lord is waiting 🙏🙏🙏
YESSSSSS!!! Lord, let me spend my Purgatory on earth 🔥
I prayed a Novena for patience about 20 years ago. Wow did I learn patience!!!
When I have no other choice I see pain like pick up your cross and follow me. It reminds me that I need to be focus on Jesus in those moment not only on good moments. I also ask to take my life for the benifits of others souls. Putting god first will help me a lot in difficult time and it all times but I need to work on it.
Well October 3rd I had Kidney Stone surgery on my right side I was missing my mom and wishing to be with her. God let me know that I would be in Purgatory if I died at that time. This was after I had received confession and Blessing of the Sick. He told me that he needed me on this earth for a little while longer. I apologized for how I was feeling and thanked him for sharing that with me and yes I would stay on this earth for whatever purpose he had for me.
St. John Vianney says if we carry our cross well it will carry us to heaven. I was just thinking to myself this morning how in my mind some people seem to be just perfect, they have their emotions under control, calm, peaceful, prayerful, me, I am just the opposite. My next thought was will I ever make it straight in😔 but then St. Padre Pio says we need to rejoice in our trials as they are refining us. Jesus, in a spiritual book I was reading said “if you will turn yourself completely over to Me I will take care of your sanctification Myself”. Yyyyyeeeessssss. I think the short route straight to heaven is like St. Theresa the little flower, her child like way, complete trust and surrender. Mary once said to a visionary “don’t ask for a specific trial just accept whatever the Lord chooses to send you.” Acceptance, complete surrender are absolute key as I have been reading and patience in our trials is a biggie. Yes, I understand you completely. I have road rage in the grocery store😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for the great laugh!
Walmart is my mission field when I go shopping. You know, you keep facing the same person pushing a cart, no matter what isle you venture down. They notice, too.
" We'll just have to stop meeting like this!"
" I wonder why God has me meeting you so often today."
Just a word to start a conversation to lift their minds to the Lord - even for a moment.
Or the person staring at the shelves looking preoccupied about something other than corn fakes.
"You look worried. Are you ok?"
"Can I pray with you?"
"You're not alone, you have an angel right with you, right now. He never leaves you."
Walmart is one of the few stores our area. There's a lot of hurt in Walmart. Sometimes a sweet word (You look so pretty in blue!") or a smile can make someone's day better, less lonely, less heavy - and raise their hearts and minds to God.
We can slow down the rush there, too, and Praise God for any traffic jams!
Walmart, oh my gosh. I am probably the only nut who walks around there thinking “is anyone here thinking about death, their salvation?” Probably not. I think about this stuff 24/7. Some people you just want to shake into reality and say “ WAKE UP!” People are in la la land. 🤣 Yeah, this conversation could go on and on. 😉
I love this priest. "Lord purify me in this life not in the pains of purgatory."
Very inspiring homily, Fr. Mark. I am getting ready to do a book launch on the Divine Mercy Conference with keynote speaker Fr. Don Calloway with his conversion testimony in San Diego. I was a prodigal son brought back to life through the intercession of our Blessed Mother 16 years ago in Medjugorje to save my marriage. I feel a calling and a sense of duty to strengthen the Marriage and Family Enrichment Program approved by the Church, so I am doing this book launch. Like the movie Sound of Freedom, I believe my book will rock the conscience of lapsed-faith Catholics. Saint Lucia of Fatima said, "The final or decisive battle between the Kingdom of God and Satan will be over marriage and family." I was in that battle hitting rock bottom in my marriage when the Blessed Mother entered the hotel room at 2 a.m. to lead me out of darkness to Christ. I did have a foretaste of the illumination of conscience in Paris on my way back to San Diego from Medjugorje. Viva Cristo Rey and Ave Maria.
Haha! The Lord is trying to purify your soul by giving you moments to practice patience to avoid purgatory! Been there but thankfully God has healed me internally from the things that were holding me back from being patient so have been doing much better with it after focused practice of the virtue. I will pray for you, Father! Keep speaking the Truth!
The daily Rosary will truly help! Read the 15 promises of the Rosary.
Amen to everything you said Fr Mark.
❤❤❤love this 😊mum had Alzheimer’s and struggled in her faith in love drawing and encouraging all around her to heaven ❤😢
Jesus help us to love and pray one another not judging others. As leaders of your church help us to spread love to the world not to find fault to others but see ourself first are we perfect.
I just finished reading a book describing “The Illumination of Conscience”. Wow, what an eye opener. After reading it I ask the Lord to open my eyes so that I can see myself through his eyes. 🙏🙏
I pray for purification but with the hope to offer any suffering for the souls in purgatory. Victim souls are needed given the state of the world.
Great talk Father, St. Theresa "the Little Flower" says also we don't need to go to Purgatory, if we only Love, Love, Love!!!
If someone says I'm being selfish to want to skip purgatory my answer is "I'm okay with that. Next question?" lol
I have the same conversation with our Lord everyday! (Please be careful on those walks.)
Our Lady of Kibeho shiwed one of the visionary heaven where people were happy and singing, another one where people were not happy but not like the third place where extremely in pain .
I hope i said it exactly the way she would say it herself
Waiting patiently through these delays can be a beautiful penance to shorten our time in purgatory. And I pray that the long-ago sins I can't forgive myself for are also part of an early purgatory. I might not be able to skip purgatory, but I pray to shorten my time there...delay the long wait there.
Going straight to heaven is the ultimate dream Father. But with venial sins committed every now and then in every life’s circumstances, it just seem impossible Father😔. That’s why I thought maybe I’ll end up in purgatory😏🙏Please pray for me Father. Viva Cristo Rey🙏👼
Straight to Heaven. AMEN. But……., good things come to those who wait. (If it has to be)
Viva Cristo Rey. ❤🕊🔥Thank you Father Mark for walking with us on our journey Home.
I hate traffic too. You can pray while you are driving. I pray the Rosary while I drive to work.
I have had the Illumination! Since then, I think, I HOPE, my concept of myself has radically changed. Oh, I’m no saint-far from! But it produced some humility in me. St. Francis prayed for God to let him suffer whatever in this world, this life, so he might immediately go to be with HIM!
I had one of the best reprimands from a person with moderate learning disabilities. Geraldine was her name and she just knew there was something i was in two minds about. I was making excuses to myself to avoid doing something that potentially would be quite difficult. It concerned my family. She spoke of her own family, its trials and the loved ones who tragically lost their lives in a boating accident. She said she looked forward to one day seeing them in heaven. She then asked me why i hadnt made up my mind about the thing i ought to do. I felt so neglectful and it was true. She spoke so simply but firmly that she completely held my attention. I have met her a few times since, she lives in supported accomodation. She seems to sense when people are in need of prayer. I believe Geraldine is a living Saint, as after she spoke to me i immediately got on to what i should do.
Purify me now.❤️
I heard a well respected priest say that we can ask our blessed mother to reveal to us our most significant defects according to the prophecy of Simeon whe he said to her at the presentation of the temple *a sword will pierce your own soul too so that the thoughts of many will be revealed*
Yes that is correct - under her title Our Lady of Sorrows specifically. I have asked her to reveal the things I need to work on the most and she does just that. I asked for the graces to take action and respect the graces/gifts/insights etc that she reveals. Our Lady of Sorrows is very loving indeed.
God Bless
Ditto Fr Mark. I prefer to be purged of my imperfections in this life, much rather than purgatory.
I've heard stories about purgatory. No thank you if I can skip it straight to heaven.
¡Viva Cristo Rey! dear Father Mark, patience comes with age, although my Granny said that "Patience is a quality that you seldom in a woman and never in a man" she was the first feminist I met in my life, she
was a pioneer, she spent more than a year herding sheep, cows and horses from the Bs As. province
to the tip end of continental Patagonia, and as an old lady fan of James Dean, she would very impacient if the plain was not in time to go South.
Thank you Fr. Mark
You can always ask the Holy Spirit to reveal your faults, sins and things for improvement and also to help you achieve these things.
❤️🔥That's you father. In love with God❤️🔥
If you’ve been given time to wait, pray. It’s never a waste of time. I witnessed to my doctor, who is an atheist. He said to me, I’m sorry I’m late. I don’t mean to leave my patients waiting. The Holy Spirt responded to him, it’s never wasted time, I’ve been here praying. ❤
Amen ❤️
Our Lady of Divine Mercy ❤️
Pray for Us ❤️❤️❤️
I pray the Litany of Patience. In it says from the idea that my ideas are better than God’s. To live on my own timeline.
Greatest talk with simplicity!
Amen Father straight to Heaven is what our Heavenly Father wants.
These questions may look silly, but I'd really like to know: How do I pray? Should I, like, talk to myself while pretending I'm talking to God and expect Him to answer me back? Should I talk, vocally, or think?
No questions are silly if intended to truly learn from them. When someone is in your house but they are in the next room or just down the hall and you can't see them but you know they are there, you talk to them and should another person walk in on you they might think, why are you talking to yourself.... you are not your talking to another person who is just not in sight. It is the same with the Lord. Realize first He is present with in a room in your heart - then talk to Him and if He answers you, you may not realize it at first because He may do so with some action by another person or some event you needed to occur - or He might answer you by a sudden realization in your heart/mind of what a particular scripture means and how it applies to you specifically .... or you may be fortunate and actually hear His voice. Just be open to however He wishes to answer you and wait. But don't stop talking to Him.
@@jeanb.5405Thank you, gentle soul, for taking the time to reply.❤
Father I need that prayer also, I know people who are suffering so much, one of my own daughters and I always encourage her to offer it up, she has so much to give right now, I am a wimp when it comes to pain but there are many ways to suffer 😂 ✝️🙏❤️
Very interesting ❤️ 🙏
I have a little print out of a map of Dante's Purgatory on my wall in my office, for the very reason you espouse; I want to purge myself of these fatal toxins as soon as possible. Best of luck to everyone else in our singular race for the imperishable crown...
Have to admit...
Fr. Mark had me laughing here, because, the way he expresses his impatience sort of hit home. 😂 I could so relate.
Then again, Fr. Mark frequently hits home. Or rather a home run, if not the ball right out of the park. Always transparent, humble, honest - and pretty smart for such a young whipper-snapper. 😁 I say that with all respect. Thanks Fr. Mark. 🙏🏼🤗
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are looking at a future Saint. We are future Saints in the works. I still have a long way to go.
I still struggle with praying for the souls in purgatory. My dad was an abusive alcoholic. He died in 1993. My mom stayed with him (44 years) and I watched her enable him. He went to a couple of treatments but it didn't do any good. He drank until he was bedridden, and that was only the last two weeks before he died at age 66. He made life tough for his family. My mom often said over the years, "I'll bet he's still paying for all of the bad things he did." I can't help but think that sounds fair. I finally had a Mass said for him this year.
God gave me an illumniation of conscience. I thought i didnt have many sins, but God taught me that was more the ways of the Pharisee. He taught me to take on the identity of sinner even though i didnt feel like it or know it. So i pray every day, Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. It brings me joy. We dont need to know our specific sins to take on the identity of sinner. Maybe youll read this Father. I hope it helps 🙂
i also do not plan to go to Purgatory because the Glory of Heaven calls. pray to Our Lady of Sorrows and your guardian angel to show you the state of your soul. hold on, because they will show you. go to confession often, and sacrifice often. God wants us to come straight Home! Holy people do draw others to Heaven. God bless you Fr Mark. You are saving souls🙏🏻😇
Amen Father 👍👏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏼
Father, I heard a story about a nun in purgatory. When she said that the average time a soul spends in purgatory is 40 years, I fell apart. I can’t imagine staying away from my Lord this long. I long to be with him, to love him, kiss him, adore him, and worship him. Count me in in that prayer. Lord wash me in your precious blood and purify me, because I need you each and every day.
Yes!❤❤❤
what a blast! never thought like that. Thank you
I feel like you’re reading my soul. I’ve been praying for the same thing under similar mental anguish, but it’s what I prefer I’d rather be purified here.!