The month of November is dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Every November I pray the 30 Day Novena for the faithful departed. This little book has surprising facts and comforting thoughts on the Holy Souls. May they rest in eternal peace.
Today bring to Me THE SOULS WHO ARE DETAINED IN PURGATORY, and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down their scorching flames. All these souls are greatly loved by Me. They are making retribution to My justice. It is in your power to bring them relief. Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their behalf. Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice.
(Diary of St. Faustina, 1226).
Booklet, Prayers for the Faithful Departed
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As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so soon shall you be.
Take up your cross and pray for me!
By Thy resurrection from the dead, O Christ, death no longer hath dominion over those who die in holiness. So, we beseech Thee, give rest to Thy servants in Thy sanctuary and in Abraham's bosom. Grant it to those, who from Adam until now have adored Thee with purity, to our fathers and brothers, to our kinsmen and friends, to all men who have lived by faith and passed on their road to Thee, by a thousand ways, and in all conditions, and make them worthy of the heavenly kingdom. Byzantine Liturgy
PRAYER OF ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT
O 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 all the holy souls in Purgatory and for sinners everywhere -- for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home and in my own family. Amen.
Tsar Nicholas II Romanov 5/18/1868 to 7/17/1918
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov 6/6/1872 to 7/17/1918
Olga Romanov 11/15/1895 to 7/17/1918
Titiana Romanov 6/10/1897 to 7/17/1918
Maria Romanov 6/26/1899 to 7/17/1918
Anastasia Romanov 6/18/1901 to 7/17/1918
Tsarevich Alexei 8/12/1904 to 7/17/1918
Sarah Anne Walker ✝ 1/14/1966 to 7/08/2006 Find a Grave
Noland Bordelon ✝ 8/31/1929 to 9/07/1989 Find A Grave
Roxanne Gniadecki ✝ 6/27/1976 to 6/25/2001
Elizabeth McBride ✝ 12/5/1900 to 9/6/1995
Fr. Denis O'Brien ✝ 10/8/1923 to 8/29/2002 Obituary
Isidor Weinberger ✝ 12/30/1934 to 12/21/2002 Find A Grave
Steve Irwin ✝ 2/2/1962 to 9/04/2006
Evelyn Boyle ✝ 5/24/1924 to 5/08/06
Thomas Stanford Jr. ✝ 7/28/1941 to 8/18/2007
Karol Iwanicki ✝ 7/13/1939 to 9/4/2007
Dorothy Vera Iwanicki ✝ (Dove) 9/1/1943 to 10/12/2000
Joseph L. Mathews ✝ 6/23/1926 to 6/1/2004
Ann Lenore Hollacher ✝ 3/20/1942 to 7/12/2004
Michael Roman Swietlicki ✝ 9/18/ 1913 to 4/ 27/ 1990
James Norman Swietlicki ✝ 4/30/1953 to 3/ 1/1998
George Rudolf Swietlicki Sr. ✝ 6/12/ 1954 to 7/30/1999
Clotine Davoren ✝ 8/17/1917 to 10/29/2007
Earl Charles Mirus ✝ 8/ 26/ 1911 to 2/17/2000
Gary Miles Bordelon ✝ 4/20/1960 to 1/26/2008 Find a Grave
Fr. J. Carl Vogel, Jr. ✝ 6/13/1919 to 8/6/2008 Obituary
David A. Zagorski ✝ 2/4/1957 to 10/5/2008
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II 2/23/1929 to 12/5/2008
Thomas Steven Hickman 8/1/1951 to 8/26/1970
Norma Anne Hickman 4/30/1933 to 11/27/1977
Stephen B Broussard 07/14/1946 to 09/01/2006
Gaston Nicholas Bordelon 12/14/1995 to 8/3/2009 Find A Grave
Dale Anthony Bordelon 4/12/1952 to 11/13/2023
Bryan Edward Black 8/29/1960 to 2/23/2012
Anneliese Johanna Wallbaum Swietlicki Basler
10/21/1928 to 9/4/2009
Sarah Ruth Leigh Vinzant 1/8/1979 to 10/14/2000
Bryan Keith Vinzant 7/18/1958 to 3/21/2008
Alicia Joy Vinzant Bell 4/12/1952 to 2/27/2009
Thomas P. Lenane 10/30/1974 to 6/19/2011
Gene A. Constance 6/27/1938 to 9/6/2009
Jacqueline Mouton Richard 4/29/1940 to 4/11/1996
Ann Ziff 10/6/1919 to 11/13/2009
Patrick Shawn Jones 11/11/1961 to 10/8/2010
Arvin Ben Wood 11/23/1916 to 12/2/2010 Obituary
Mary D. Schroff 4/28/1937 to 1/7/2013
Ralph Johnston 8/25/1954 to 6/11/2012
Joseph Wallace Richard 10/29/1926 to 7/25/2013
Vicki Middleton 3/29/1953 to 7/24/2012
Jose V. Rodriguez, Catalina Fonseca, Julio G. Delgado, Sister Carmen Torres, Felix Reyes, David Melendez, Abigail Ortega, Ernesto Rosado, Anicasio Reyes, Angel Ortiz, and Juanita Trinidad Ortiz.
Margie Guy 7/24/1963 to 8/27/2013
Willie Davis Rayford 1925 to 8/21/2013
Louis W. Gasbarra 10/15/1926 to 6/15/1999
Lillian M. Gasbarra 5/12/1932 to 5/30/2006
Benedict Ogunedo 1921 to 1/15/2005
Elizabeth Ogunedo 1929 to 7/1/2012
Frank Vasta 1/17/1923 to 1/18/2014
Willie Mae Rayford 10/7/1926 to 11/3/2013
Joyce Thelma Auld 5/6/1928 to 3/7/2014
Travis Emil Sitzman 5/10/1996 to 4/3/2011
John W. White Jr. 8/29/1932 to 4/9/2015
Henry Farrugia 7/27/1918 to 4/6/1997
Lawrence Sporik 11/7/1913 to 10/17/1991
Louise Sporikm1/25/1918 to 6/10/2000
Celina Farrugia 2/24/1951 to 4/26/1997
Paska Djonovic 4/15/1925 to 1/10/2016
Nik Karaqi 7/1/45 to 6/2/2013
Angela (Reiss) Thomas 1936 to 6/9/2007
Larry Joseph Bordelon 1/19/1958 to 2/22/2016 Find A Grave
Paul Henry Kidd Jr. 8/26/1955 to 6/12/2016 Find A Grave
Shirley Corley 9/9/1940 to 6/11/2016
John Henry Morris 6/12/1962 to 5/25/2016
Gilburn Gaylord Butts 5/22/1924 to 8/13/2016
Frances May Taylor 8/15/1948 to 8/3/2016
Paul Henry Kidd Jr. 8/26/1955 to 6/12/2016
Richard (Rick) P. Salbato 10/26/1938 to 2/24/2016
Annette ( Nettie ) DiGirolamo 2/15/1924 to 11/20/1985
Michael Novak 9/9/1933 to 2/17/2017
Norma Leah Nelson(McCorvey) 9/22/1947 to 2/18/2017
Jerry Lewis 3/16/1926 to 8/20/2017
Maryanne Sandiford 6/17/1955 to 7/27/2017
Elmo Smith 4/18/1936 to 3/8/2018
Gertrude "Trudi" Weinberger 8/1/1935 to 3/19/2018
Rev. Monsignor William Anthony Botik 4/15/1918 to 3/20/1998
Evelyn Richard Hare (Aunt Pete) 12/21/1925 to 11/24/2018 Find a Grave
Richard Hawley 1/7/1935 to 3/30/2019
Rachel Gonzales Strain 12/5/1942 to 3/31/2019
Fr. James V. Schall, SJ ✝ 1/20/1928 to 4/17/2019
David B. Abraham 10/12/1929 to 4/27/2019
Ivanell Louise Richard Galland 10/26/1930 to 6/27/2019
Margaret Richard Bordelon Norris 8/4/1933 to 8/12/2019 Find A Grave
James Arthur Middleton, Jr. 3/15/1936 to 9/12/2019
Rev. Fr. James P. West 9/2/1960 to 3/8/2020
Josephine “Jay” Girolamo Pugliese 4/10/1930 to 9/10/2020
Bryan Joseph Dorn 1/4/1989 to 3/23/2012
Ursula Swietlicki 1/14/1951 to 7/20/2020
Justin Miles Bordelon 12/29/1982 to 9/24/2020
Janet Marie Bordelon 8/6/1954 to 10/13/2020
Linda Corrine Dome 9/8/1952 to 10/28/2020
Eleanor Collins Thomason Duhon 10/22/1953 to 6/1/2017
Thomas Alvarado III 3/7/1957 to 12/1/2020
Josephine Hettie-Grace Weinberger Crane. 1933 to 2/6/2021
Rush Limbaugh 1951 to 2021
Diana M. Fitzmaurice 8/27/1958 to 11/7/2019
John Ward Edington 12/21/1934 to 4/13/2021
Linda Cathy Norris 6/1/1954 to 11/22/2021
Elmo Thibodeaux to 11/28/2021
Joseph Francis Walker 4/13/1943 to 4/18/2021
Alice von Hildebrand 3/11/1923 to 1/14/2022
Robert D. Fondren 4/17/1951 to 3/2/2022
Stephanie Lafaye Guidry 12/11/1968 to 3/2/2022
HRH Queen Elizabeth II 4/21/1926 to 9/8/2022
Dr. Gabriel D. Castillo, Jr. 1/8/1941 to 10/10/2022
Clarence Alfred Gilyard Jr. 12/24/1955 to 22/28/2022
Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI 4/16/1927 to 12/31/2022
Cardinal George Pell 6/8/1941 to 1/10/2023
Patty Carter Burrows 8/4/1953 to 1/9/2023
Ronald Vincent Turner 7/28/1946 to 3/19/2023
Calvin Lynn Wood 8/22/1926 to 3/20/2023
Margaret Anne Aymond 11/10/1955 to 4/20/2023
Charles Richard 1/17/1932 to 4/8/2023
Mark William Kendall 9/15/1945 to 12/29/1995 Find a Grave
Daniel William “Bill” Kendall 1/13/1928 to 3/20/2021 Find a Grave
Melissa Ann Kendall Kriegel 10/10/1979 to 7/24/2020 Find a Grave
Rev. Mark Beard 7/26/1961 to 8/2/2023 Obituary
Juanita Elizabeth Hudson 3/20/33 to 11/26/2023
Henry Clay Norris 3/28/1924 to 1/22/2024 Find A Grave
Pamela Slayter Rounds 8/26/1954 to 5/27/2014
Ernest Joseph Galland 5/10/1926 to 6/19/2024
Joseph Gene Dorn 10/11/1954 to 6/7/2024 Legacy
Scott Alan Smith 9/27/1952 to 8/18/2024 Find a Grave
Judith Robin Merriweather Treadway 9/7/1967 to 9/17/2024 Legacy
Requiem Aeternam
Eternal Rest grant unto them (him/her),
O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them (him/her).
May they (he/she) rest in peace.
In Latin:
Requiem aeternam dona eis (ei),
Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis (ei).
Requiescant (-at) in pace. Amen.
UTILITY OF PRAYER FOR THE DEPARTED
It is the traditional faith of Catholics that the souls in purgatory are not separated from the Church, and that the love which is the bond of union between the Church's members should embrace those who have departed this life in God's grace. Hence, since our prayers and our sacrifices can help those who are still waiting in purgatory, the saints have not hesitated to warn us that we have a real duty toward those who are still in purgatorial expiation. Holy Church through the Congregation of Indulgences, 18 December 1885, has bestowed a special blessing on the so-called "heroic act" in virtue of which "a member of the Church militant offers to God for the souls in purgatory all the satisfactory works which he will perform during his lifetime, and also all the suffrages which may accrue to him after his death" (Heroic Act, vol. VII, 292). The practice of devotion to the dead is also consoling to humanity and eminently worthy of a religion which seconds all the purest feelings of the human heart. "Sweet", says Cardinal Wiseman (lecture XI), "is the consolation of the dying man, who, conscious of imperfection, believes that there are others to make intercession for him, when his own time for merit has expired; soothing to the afflicted survivors the thought that they possess powerful means of relieving their friend. In the first moments of grief, this sentiment will often overpower religious prejudice, cast down the unbeliever on his knees beside the remains of his friend and snatch from him an unconscious prayer for rest; it is an impulse of nature which for the moment, aided by the analogies of revealed truth, seizes at once upon this consoling belief. But it is only a flitting and melancholy light, while the Catholic feeling, cheering though with solemn dimness, resembles the unfailing lamp, which the piety of the ancients is said to have hung before the sepulchers of their dead." Catholic Encyclopedia
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins and save us from the fires of hell;
lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy Mercy
Amen