St. Mechtilde's "Our Father" for Souls In Purgatory

 

St. Mechtilde
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We are all familiar with the St Gertrude prayer for the souls in purgatory.

Have you heard of St Mechtilde "Our Father" prayer?  It's another powerful prayer that helps release souls in purgatory. Each time St. Mechtilde recited this prayer, she saw multitude of souls in Purgatory ascend to Heaven.

We should pray this prayer too for the souls in purgatory especially for our deceased love ones.  

This is also a good prayer/meditation to examine our conscience to help us avoid purgatory.

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Source: Vatican Site

OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN

We most humbly beseech You–good, merciful and eternal Father–forgive the Poor Souls who You Yourself have taken as Your children, who did not love You and who pushed You away from them and neglected to give You sufficient honor. As reparation and penance I offer You all the love and good deeds of Your most beloved Son, Jesus Christ, Our Lord.

HALLOWED BE THY NAME

I most humbly beseech You–good, merciful and eternal Father–forgive the Poor Souls who did not give glory to Your Name, who often spoke unworthily or thoughtlessly. As reparation and penance I offer You all the sermons with which Your most beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, honored Your Name while here on earth.

THY KINGDOM COME

We beseech You most humbly–good eternal and merciful Father–forgive the Poor Souls who did not attend to Your kingdom with a burning love and a yearning wish but who often enriched themselves with earthly goods. As reparation and penance, I offer You the great offering that Your most beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, made so that all can be taken into Your kingdom.

THY WILL BE DONE, ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

We beseech You most humbly–good, eternal and merciful Father–forgive the Poor Souls who did not serve Your Will but often followed their own will and who thereby did not do Your Will. As reparation and penance, we offer You the Holy and Divine Heart of Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and its total will service.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US

We beseech You most humbly–good, eternal and merciful Father–forgive the Poor Souls who offered no resistance to big temptations but who fell to the urgings of evil and into ruin. As reparation and penance we offer You the obedience, the tiring work, all the bitter sufferings and the death of Your most beloved Son, Jesus Christ Our Lord.

AND DELIVER US FROM EVIL

We most humbly beseech You–good, eternal and merciful Father–forgive the Poor Souls and lead them as well as our souls, through the merits of Your most beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, into the kingdom of Your Holiness, which You Yourself are.

Amen.