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This is my contribution:
Want To "Save a Soul Today"?
(Originally published on January 10, 2013)
When was the last time the first thought that came into your mind as you got up to enjoy the gift of another day was “Let me save a soul today?” For most of us, my educated guess would be, either not recently or never.
Have you heard a homily within the past year urging you to pray for the salvation of your soul and/or the souls of your loved ones and friends? - not so much.
Do you ever think of where the souls of the 6,815 people (as estimated by the CIA World Factbook) who die on average everyday in this country have gone? Probably not!
Odd (and troubling) isn’t it, that even though the primary mission of the Catholic Church is to save souls, we rarely hear or think about that subject?
To paraphrase the great wisdom of Servant of God Madeleine Delbrel: how then can we desire to be saved, if we do not know we are lost?
For lots of reasons, too many Catholics have become quite complacent or even unconcerned about their eternal residence or that of those they love. After all, we are all “good and decent folk” and our loving and merciful God is not going to send any of us to some eternal inferno forever. We are partially right but terribly incorrect as well: God does not send anyone to hell. Those who populate that Godless hole have chosen to be there by the way they chose to live their lives here – their way, rather than God’s.
So maybe it’s time for all of us to pay closer attention to the salvation of souls and actually do something that will help us and others avail ourselves of His mercy and occupy the heavenly mansions God wishes to give us.
Father Joseph Homick of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph in California thinks so. He wants to make a simple but powerful flyer, Save a Soul Today! available to anyone who wishes copies. E-mail him with your request at: savesouls2day@gmail.com.
Imagine how many souls could be saved, if everyone who reads this article tells their friends about it and then orders copies of this pamphlet from Father for their respective parishes! I am obtaining copies for my parish. Will you?
With the good Father’s permission, the content of his flyer (less the instructions on how to say the Chaplet) follows. Please read and share this widely:
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