“WHILE praying much and at all times, therefore, for our deceased parents, friends, and benefactors, we ought also to have care for the immense multitude of the forgotten. There are moments during life when we find ourselves in a state of depression, of frustration, of pain, of sickness, without consoler or friend. To remember prayerfully the Holy Souls at such moments is the best means of obtaining help and consolation from Him Who is the common Father of all human souls.

“We may believe that it is also a means for preparing oneself for immediate entry into Heaven: for, if a constant devotion to the Holy Souls in general can merit this favour for us, how much more powerful must be the charity which inspires us to pray for the deserted and forgotten souls, with Him Who told the parable of the man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.”

— Martin Jugie, Purgatory and the Means to Avoid It

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