PRAYER FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY

 

Jesus, Our Lord,

You spent the night before

Your Passion on the Mount of Olives,

in the Garden of Gethsemane.

 

In front of Your eyes

You saw all the sins of the world

a burden which crushed You

and which pressed blood out through Your pores.

 

The apostles slept and did

not have the strength

to keep watch with You

during this hardest of hours.

 

Only Your heavenly Father

was moved and sent an angel

in order to console and strengthen

You during Your mortal anguish.Lord, see our brothers and sisters

 in Purgatory.

 

They suffer more than a human

can while here on earth

and You wish us to be merciful toward

their anguish and distress.

 

You give us the chance

to do something for them,

to keep watch with them, to pray for them,

to make an offering on their behalf;

but most of all,

we can bring them the Holy Mass.

 

Yes, we may even send our Guardian Angel

so that he may in the Power of Your Blood

console and strengthen them.

 

How merciful God was with His Son

on the Mount of Olives,

and in this way He wishes us also to be

merciful toward the suffering Church in Purgatory.

Jesus, remember Your loneliness

on the Mount of Olives.

 

Remember how much good it did for You

when the Angel of Your heavenly Father

strengthened and supported You.

 

Teach us to be as merciful

and supportive as Your Father,

and fill the Poor Souls with the same consolation,

which You received

on the Mount of Olives.

Mary, Queen of the Angels,

have mercy toward

your suffering children in Purgatory.

Send them your angels to help them.

Saint Michael the Archangel,

Saint Gabriel the Archangel,

Saint Raphael the Archangel,

you nine choirs of Holy Angels,

you Seraphim and Cherubim,

you Thrones and Dominations,

Princes and Powers,

you Archangels and Angels,

we pray,

in the Name of God

and in the name of your Queen,

our heavenly Mother Mary,

go quickly and help our brothers

and sisters in Purgatory.

 

They suffer great anguish,

they thirst for the Eternal God

more than the stag thirsts for a spring's water.

 

Strengthen them and lead

them further on the path

to heavenly Fatherland.