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...there is one heart on earth which never forgets, which ever remembers, and prays without ceasing—a heart ready every hour to come to the aid of the abandoned dead: it is the heart of the Catholic Church. She is the Mother of the children who combat on earth, Mother also of her children who suffer in Purgatory, and the lamentations of the one and the other ever find an echo in her compassionate heart.

The devotion to the Holy Souls is ... a hidden work from first to last. We do not see the results, so that there is little food for vainglory; neither is it a devotion the exercise of which appears in any way before the eyes of others. It implies an utter ignoring of self by making away w/our own satisfactions & indulgences and keeping up a tender interest in an object which does not directly concern ourselves.

FIFTH DAY - A Day of Prayer for Deceased Parents and Relatives

Each day's prayers are focused on a different group, a good reminder that we have SO MANY who need our prayers!