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 then 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
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,
which are available on the link in the column to the right of this post) follows.
Please read and share this widely:
Save a Soul Today!
Do you know
that you can do something that can be a direct and immediate contribution to
the salvation of souls? Jesus told St. Faustina something of great value in
this regard. (Since she is a canonized saint and her writings have received
Church approval, it is worthy of belief, even though this is not on the same
level as Scripture and Tradition.) At a certain moment Jesus said this:
"Pray as much as you can for the dying... Be assured that the grace of
eternal salvation for certain souls in their final moment depends upon Your
prayer..." (Diary, #1777).
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