You have to be in the state of grace to help the souls in purgatory. When we pray for the souls, we’ve got to remember we’re giving them paradise, the face of God, when we get them out ...

We can wield unimaginable power for the souls in purgatory during the week of All Souls Day, from Nov. 1-8. If we visit a cemetery and pray for a soul in purgatory, they a can be released by us ...

Such tainted souls, though saved ... The Church encourages us to pray for the dead since they may be in Purgatory needing our prayers. Praying for the dead is quite biblical.

(RNS) This Sunday (Nov. 2), on what is known as All Souls ... purgatory hasn’t eased much since: You still can’t find the word in the Bible, critics say, and the idea that you can pray ...

"Purgatory is necessary so that souls can be cleansed and perfected ... "Even if it’s been years because our prayers add to their accidental glory — according to St. Thomas Aquinas — which ...

But for one saint, the Catholic imperative to pray for the dead was made very ... In addition to being the patron saint of souls in purgatory, Nicholas is also considered the patron saint against ...

a day to a day to commemorate and pray for the souls of those in Purgatory, those undergoing purification before entering heaven. In Ireland, it was once widely believed that the souls of the ...

He said the main aim for the prayers is to pray for the souls in purgatory and not those in heaven and neither those in hell. “The souls in hell do not need our prayers because they are ...

I should be holier than this. I am working on it. Kind of. Pope Francis asks us to pray for the souls in purgatory. “Let us not forget, however, that so many deceased also await our spiritual su ...

Theologically, All Souls’ Day is bound up with the doctrine of purgatory: The dead we pray for are in the process of purgation, or purification, through which their souls are made ready to be in ...

This Sunday (Nov. 2), on what is known as All Souls ... with purgatory hasn’t eased much since: You still can’t find the word in the Bible, critics say, and the idea that you can pray ...