I’ve always believed that things happen for a reason.

I’ve been visiting this chapel near the Basilica forever and it was only when my lolo died that I noticed the prayer hanging on the wall behind the candle holders. It’s St. Gertrude the Great’s Prayer and it’s said to release a thousand souls from purgatory every time it’s said so I see no reason not to google a copy of the prayer so I can say it not only for my lolo but for all the souls who need it.

Tinuy asked me how I knew they (my lolo and probably her dad too) were there. I said I don’t and that I just wanna make sure if they are, I wanna immediately get them out of there.

I miss you lolo and wherever you are, I want you to know that you’ll always be a huge part of what I am and will become…

The Holy Souls Will Repay Us
A Thousand Times Over

Now who can be in more urgent need of our charity than the souls in Purgatory? What hunger, or thirst, or dire sufferings on Earth can compare to their dreadful torments? Neither the poor, nor the sick, nor the suffering, we see around us, have such an urgent need of our help. Yet we find many good-hearted people who interest themselves in every other type of suffering, but alas! scarcely one who works for the Holy Souls.

Who can have more claim on us? Among them too, there may be our mothers and fathers, our friends and near of kin.

When they are finally released from their pains and enjoy the beatitude of Heaven, far from forgetting their friends on earth, their gratitude knows no bounds. Prostrate before the Throne of God, they never cease to pray for those who helped them. By their prayers they shield their friends from many dangers and protect them from the evils that threaten them.

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Prayer of
St. Gertrude the Great

Our Lord dictated the following prayer to St. Gertrude the Great to release 1,000 Souls from Purgatory each time it is said.

"Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen."

St. Gertrude's life was the mystic life of the Cloister – a Benedictine nun. She meditated on the Passion of Christ, which many times brought a flood of tears to her eyes. She did many penances and Our Lord appeared to her many times. She had a tender love for the Blessed Virgin and was very devoted to the suffering souls in Purgatory. She died in 1334. Her feast day is November 16th.