Now writer and speaker Susan Tassone brings us a slim volume of prayers that are actually an apostolate to the dead. This is Tassone's second work on the holy souls in purgatory, and the third in ...

Susan Tassone's new book, Prayers, Promises, and Devotions for the Holy Souls in Purgatory (Our Sunday Visitor, 2012), though, the latest in a long line of books devoted to the topic of praying ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

O gentle Heart of Jesus, ever present in the blessed sacrament, ever consumed with burning love for the poor captive souls in Purgatory, have mercy on them. Be not severe in your judgments ...

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 ...