11/03/2025
“All heaven cannot help them, for there is no merit to be gained there.
God Himself, though most merciful, owes it to His justice not to deliver them until they have paid the whole debt that they carried with them beyond the world of trial.
The debt was contracted perhaps through our fault, and in our company; and it is to us they turn for help, to us who are still dreaming of nothing but pleasure, while they are burning, and we could so easily shorten their torments!
‘Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.’ Job XIX 21”
Dom Gréranger
In this octave of all Saints consider visiting a cemetery (before the 8th) to gain a Plenary indulgence for the suffering souls.