November is on the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
Purgatory is a Temporary State; it will not be there for all eternity. In Purgatory we go and get purified so we can enter Heaven. We know of souls coming to ask for prayers to many saints and one that is weird where this one soul didn't ask for prayers but Padre Pio said he would celebrate Mass for him and the guy replied, "no, then I'm going to suffer more."
The souls are in need of our prayers to get them cleaned quicker; but God decides when to bring them into Heaven; unless the souls wore a brown Scapular; then Mary goes personally and brings them to Heaven.
What will happen when the End of History happens? Well, Purgatory will be empty and it will be no more. Those who lived a virtuous life will be in Heaven and those who did not; will be in Hell.
Purgatory literally means purification; being cleansed; where you are made new. In Heaven, we will look like the Risen Christ; all our defects will be no more; we will have the perfect body, hair, face, chest, everything. No more illness or injury.
November is the month the Holy Souls in Purgatory must like; because the increase prayers for them; or there should be. Judas Maccabee and his soldiers buried the dead but also prayed for them; this was in the Second Book of Maccabee. In different passages of the New Testatment are the ones for Purgatory also.
Protestants want the word Purgatory but the word wasn't put into practice until St. Augustine when he said the latin word for Purgatory. The Jewish people believe and still do; since they don't accept Jesus as the Saviour; so they believe the Just are still in Purgatory and the damned in gehenna. But in the Gospel of St. Luke, Jesus said, "whoever listens to you, listens to me, but those who deny you, deny Me, if they deny Me; they deny the One who sent Me." Which means in a way; the Jewish people and Muslims and all those who deny Jesus and don't believe in Him like we believe in Him; in a way deny God; as Jesus said in Scripture.
But, they also believe in the God of Abraham. The believe in the One True God but not the information He revealed. This is a very touchy subject and must be careful; they believe in the same God as we do; but not in the revealed information and truths.
On the Holy Souls in Purgatory is a great devotion for us to pray for them; they are our brothers and sisters that we are to pray for and not forget.
One man didn't want to die in America or at least be buried here; because we tend to forget the souls in Purgatory and get too caught up in the world, he put on his tomb stone, "Do not forget to pray for me." Have we become a people who worry over every new gaget as our Holy Father knows we have and forgotten the Holy Bible; The Word of God and put our trust in gagets. Yes, the new styles of media and gagets are good; but we must use them to be missionaries to flock online and gather the flock to Christ.
But, when gagets become over powering and not in the use for what the bishops of America are now calling for but what the Holy Father has been asking for a while; use the new technology and new media to spread the Gospel where the Gospel has been lost and replaced.
We need to Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in America once again, we are called to do this from our baptism and confirmation; to go out and make disciples as Jesus said and baptizing them in the "Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit." We have lost this in our life; but the mission has not changed since the end of the Gospel of St. Matthew's Gospel.
To get Catholics to pray and take this seriously to pray for our brothers and sisters in Purgatory to help them get to Heaven. We must spread to them the Holy Gospel; which is Jesus. If they do not know Jesus; they won't take anything of the Holy Faith seriously. They must have faith but also know it and know why we do this for the souls in Purgatory.
They want our prayers to help get them to Heaven and even if they don't ask and they may suffer more; but it is for their good to get purified.
Pray for them and spread the Holy Gospel to every one with the new gagets and media that you use.
God bless
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