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Monday, 8 June 2015

AN ACT OF MERCY - PRAYERS FOR THE DYING

     
    Three Very Beautiful Prayers
     For Dying Souls
    An ancient Christian writer wrote that, "of all divine things, the most divine is to share with God in the saving of souls."
    The following Prayers are very useful to a dying person, and should be prayed often as an act of mercy. First, where these prayers originated.
    There once was a Pope in Rome who was surrounded by many sins.  The Lord God struck him with a fatal illness.  When he say that he was dying he summoned Cardinals, Bishops and learned persons and said to them: "My dear friend!  What comfort can you give me now that I must die, and when I deserve eternal damnation for my sins?"  No one answered him.  One of them a pious curate named John, said: Father, why do you doubt the Mercy of God?"  The Pope replied: "What comfort can you give me now that I must die and fear that I'll be damned for my sins?"  John replied: "I'll read three prayers over you: I hope, you'll be comforted and that you'll obtain Mercy from God."  The Pope was unable to say more.  The curate and all those present knelt and said an Our Father, the then following prayers:
    1.       Lord Jesus Christ!   Thou Son of God and Son of the Virgin Mary, God and Man, Thou Who in fear sweated blood for us on the Mount of Olives in  order to bring peace, and to offer Thy Most Holy Death to God Thy Heavenly Father for the salvation of this dying person...If it be, however, that by his sins he merits eternal damnation, then may it be deflected from      him.  This, O Eternal Father through Our Lord Jesus Christ, They Dear Son, Who liveth and reigneth in union with The Holy Spirit now and forever.  Amen
     
    2.       Lord Jesus Christ!  Thou Who meekly  died on the trunk of the Cross for us, submitting Thy Will completely to Thy Heavenly Father in order to bring peace and to offer They most Holy Death to Thy Heavenly Father in order to free ....(this person)... and to hide from him what he has earned with his sins; grant this O Eternal Father!  Through Our Lord Jesus Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in union with the Holy Spirit now and forever.  Amen.
     
    3.       Lord Jesus Christ!  Thou Who remained silent to speak through the mouths of the Prophets:  I have drawn Thee to me through Eternal Lord, which Lord drew Thee from Heaven into the body of the Virgin into the valley of this needful  world, which Love kept Thee 33 years in this world, and as a sign of Great Lord, Thous hast given Thy Holy Body as Teue Food and Thy Holy Blood as True Drink, as a sign of Great Love, Thous has consented to be a prisoner and to be led from one judge to another  and as a sign of Great Love Thous hast consented to be condemned to death, and hast consented to die and to be buried and truly risen, and appeared to Thy Holy Mother and all the Holy Apostles, and as a sign of Great Love Thou hast ascended, under Thy own Strength and Power, and sitteth at the Right Hand of God Thy Heavenly Father, and Thou has sent Thy Holy Spirit into the hearts of Thy Apostle and the hearts of all who hope and believe in Thee.  Through Thy Sign of Eternal Love, open Heaven today and take this dying person …  and all his sins into the Realm of Thy Heavenly Father, that he may reign with Thee now and forever . Amen
    Meanwhile the Pope died.  The curate persevered to the third hour, then the Pope appeared to him in body and comforting  him; his countenance as brilliant as the sun, his clothes as white as snow, and he said: “My  dear brother!   Whereas I was supposed to be a child of damnation I’ve become a child of happiness.  As you recited the first Prayer many of my sins fell from me as rain from Heaven, and as you recited the second Prayer I was purified, as a goldsmith purifies gold  in a hot fire.  I was still further purified as you recited the third Prayer.  Then I saw Heaven open and the Lord Jesus standing on the Right Hand of God the Father Who said to me, “Come, all thy sins are forgiven thee, you’ll be and remain in the Realm of My Father forever.  Amen!
    With these words my soul separated from my body and the Angels of God led it to Eternal Joy.
    As the curate heard this he said, “O Holy Father, I can’t tell these things to anyone, for they won’t believe me.”  Then the Pope said:  “Truly I tell thee, the Angel of God stands with me and has written the prayers in letters of gold for the consolement of all sinners.  If a person had committed  all the sins in the world, but that the three Prayers shall have been read (over him) at his end (death), all his sins will be forgiven him, even though his soul was supposed to suffer until the Last Judgement, it will be redeemed (freed).
    The person who hears them read, he won’t die un unhappy death, also in whose house they will be read.  Thereford take these prayers and carry them into St. Peter’s Basilica and lay them in the Chapel named the Assumption of Mary, for certain consolation.  The person who will be near death, who reads them or hears them read gains 400 years indulgence for the days he was supposed to suffer in Purgatory because of his guilt.  Also who reads this Prayer or hears it read, the hour of his death shall be revealed to him. Amen
     
     

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