{"id":3406,"date":"2013-11-02T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T07:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/november-praying-for-the-holy-1\/"},"modified":"2013-11-02T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T09:21:23","slug":"november-praying-for-the-holy-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/november-praying-for-the-holy-1\/","title":{"rendered":"November: Praying for the Holy Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" alt=\"1102purgatoire_definition_catechisme.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/1102purgatoire_definition_catechisme.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"390\" \/><br \/>\n<strong> Like a Gentle Rain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It must have been forty-five years ago &#8212; or more &#8212; that I opened the Latin-English missal published by the Abbey of Saint-Andr\u00e9-de Bruges and found a stunning woodcut of a chalice turned upside down with the Precious Blood of Christ falling like a gentle rain into purgatory to bring refreshment and deliverance to the Holy Souls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Persevering in Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The offering of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gasparian.stblogs.org\/\">Precious Blood of Christ<\/a> for the Holy Souls is a mighty form of intercession on their behalf. Given that I am a firm believer in the value of repetitive prayer, of simple invocations repeated over and over again in the form of a chaplet or rosary, I began to pray for the Holy Souls in this way. Readers of <em>Vultus Christi<\/em> may want to make this prayer their own during the month of November, even on a daily basis. It is prayed on an ordinary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosaryworkshop.com\/RWSP-2004-PreciousBlood.html\">rosary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>On the large beads:<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>V. Eternal Father,<br \/>\nI offer Thee the Precious Blood of Thy Beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nthe Lamb without blemish or spot (1 P 1:19) &#8212;<br \/>\nR. For the refreshment and deliverance of the souls in Purgatory.<\/strong><br \/>\n(One can add here, <em>especially those of my family<\/em>, or <em>of my ancestry<\/em>, or <em>of priests<\/em>. The Holy Spirit sometimes moves one to pray for particular groups of Holy Souls.)<br \/>\n<em>Ten times on the small beads:<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>V. By Thy Precious Blood, O Jesus &#8212;<br \/>\nR. Purify and deliver their souls.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>After having said five decades, one concludes with:<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>V. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord.<br \/>\nR. And let perpetual light shine upon them.<br \/>\nV. May they rest in peace.<br \/>\nR. Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a Gentle Rain It must have been forty-five years ago &#8212; or more &#8212; that I opened the Latin-English missal published by the Abbey of Saint-Andr\u00e9-de Bruges and found a stunning woodcut of a chalice turned upside down with the Precious Blood of Christ falling like a gentle rain into purgatory to bring refreshment <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-souls-in-purgatory","category-most-precious-blood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-SW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}