Our one and only goal in this life is to get home to Heaven by dying in a state of Sanctifying Grace as a member of the Catholic Church. Absolutely nothing else matters. The path to Heaven runs through the Cross of our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as we consecrate ourselves to Him totally through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother.
We must embrace suffering and humiliation and hardship with equanimity, joy and gratitude, mindful of the fact that Our Lady desires use whatever merits we earn from our embrace of our sufferings for the honor and glory of the Most Blessed Trinity and for the good of souls, especially the Poor Souls in the Church Suffering in Purgatory, whose intentions we must remember every day and especially during this month of November. There is no other path to the triumph of the empty tomb other than the suffering of the Cross.
We must also forgive right readily those who have offended us in any way and to ask forgiveness from those whom we have offended, whether advertently or inadvertently. Nothing anyone does to us or says about us is the equal of what one of our least Venial Sins caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during his Passion and Death and that caused His Most Blessed Mother's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart to be pierced through and through with Seven Swords of Sorrow.
The good, the bad and the ugly of ever person's life is revealed only on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the living and the dead. Let us be content to bear with suffering, humiliation, ostracism and mockery now as a means of so dying to self that we will consider it to be a great honor to be crushed and brought low in the sight of men. Suffering is indeed the path to triumph!
We must continue to pray for each other on a daily basis, praying especially that the disagreements of the present moment in this time of apostasy and betrayal will be washed away by the merits of the Most Precious Blood of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and by the maternal intercession of His Most Blessed Mother.
If we want to be in Heaven for all eternity, you see, in the presence of the Most Blessed Trinity, Our Lady, Saint Joseph and all of the angels of the saints, then it is a pretty good idea to pray for everyone whom God's Providence has placed in our paths, hoping that those from whom we might be estranged at the present time, especially because of the divisions among Catholics created by conciliarism and its apostasies, will be united with us for all eternity in the glories of Heaven, please God that each of us dies in a state of Sanctifying Grace.
One of ways in which we can practice true Charity is to remember the Poor Souls every day in our prayers. Terrible, terrible sinner that I am, one of my devotions has long been to the Poor Souls. To help the Poor Souls repay the debt that they can no longer pay for themselves is to acquire friends for eternity who will help us at the moment of our own deaths. Charity to the Poor Souls can help to undo our own uncharity to others in this passing, mortal vale of tears. This is indeed the month of the Poor Souls.
Let us show them our due attention each and every day of the year, especially in this month of November. Remember, of course, that from noon today on All Saints' Day through midnight of the Commemoration of All Souls tomorrow the Catholic faithful, as often as they visit a church or to pray for the dead, reciting six times during each visit the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the intentions of Holy Mother Church may gain a plenary indulgence applicable only to the souls in Purgatory, under the usual conditions of making a good Confession within a week before or after, worthily receiving Holy Communion within the week and having the right intention of heart. This is called the Toties Quoties Indulgence.
Finally, I invite the readers of this website who are not aware of the fact before now to join in the fifty-four day Rosary Novena that Father Louis J. Campbell, who was ordained to the Holy Priesthood on September 3, 1961, for the Order of Saint Augustine and turns ninety years of age this very day, All Saints Day, is starting for the following intentions:
- That the whole world is converted to Christ and the True Faith, along with the re-establishment and restoration of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church here on earth, with its True Mass, Sacraments, Priests & Bishops, Holy Nuns, Brothers, Church Militant, and fervent love for Christ on earth.
- For the repose of all of the holy souls in Purgatory.
- For the spiritual and temporal welfare of our families and our friends.
- We ask that the scourges of globalism, communism, socialism, and their efforts to eliminate God from us, are crushed.
- For our protection from all unlawful and wrongful authority.
- For protection of Christians persecuted and slaughtered by the forces of evil throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East and Nigeria. That the enemies of Our Lord be confounded, thwarted, and brought to shame--and that they be converted.
- To protect the innocence of all the children on earth from the horrors being perpetrated against them. Please, God, protect the unborn children from being aborted. Protect children from predators, pedophiles, child traffickers and from having their innocence stolen by the teaching of evil indoctrination.
Please see Saint Jude Shrine - 54 Day Novena for relevant information and links. Also, I ask you to pray for Father Campbell on his ninetieth birthday today and to thank him for his sixty-one years of priesthood, including the last twenty-one as pastor of Saint Jude Shrine in Stafford, Texas, which was our own spiritual home whenever we were based in our motor home (which was sold eleven and one-half years ago, believe it or not) in Sugar Land, Texas. Happy birthday, Father Campbell!
A blessed All Saints Day to you all!
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
All the Saints, pray for us.