Purgatory (5 of 7) St. Michael

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

Today we will focus on the role of St. Michael with souls. The below information was taken from the book "The Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory". A book of discourses between a religious sister from Purgatory and a religious sister who is asked to pray for her.

"We see St. Michael as we see the angels. He has no body. He comes to get the souls that have finished their purification. It is he who conducts them to Heaven.  He is the highest angel in Heaven. Our own Guardian Angels come to see us but St. Michael is far more beautiful than they are. 

You do well to pray to St. Michael and to urge others to do so. One is indeed happy at the hour of death when he has had confidence in some of the saints. They will be his protectors before God in that terrible moment.

The best and most efficacious way of glorifying him in Heaven and honoring him on earth is to spread devotion to the souls in Purgatory, and to make known the great mission he fulfills towards these suffering souls. It is he who is entrusted by God to lead the souls to the place of expiation and to bring them to their eternal home after purification. Each time a soul arrives to increase the number of the elect, God is glorified, and this glory in some way communicates itself also to the celestial minister. It is an honor for him to present to Our Lord the souls that will sing their thanks and His mercies through all eternity. I could never make you understand the intense love which the Heavenly Archangel has for his Divine Master, and the love which God in His turn has for St. Michael. Neither can I convey to you a true idea of the love and pity St. Michael has for us. He encourages us in our sufferings by speaking to us of Heaven.

Tell the Father that if he wishes to please St. Michael, he will most earnestly recommend devotion to the souls in Purgatory. People in the world do not think of it. When they have lost their relatives or friends, they say a few prayers, weep for a few days and that is the end of it. The souls are henceforth abandoned. It is true that they merit this, for while they were on earth they neglected the dead. The Divine Judge deals with us in this world according to our actions in the former. Those who have forgotten the holy souls are forgotten in their turn.

On the feast of St. Michael, he comes to Purgatory and returns to Heaven with a great number of souls, especially with those who had been devout to him in life.

MIRACLE OF ST MICHAEL TOLD BY THE RELIGIOUS SISTER....
There was an English woman, who was drowned at Mont St. Michel (in France), and went straight to Heaven. She had the necessary contrition at the momet of death and at the same time the baptism of desire. All this happened through the intercession of St. Michael. What a happy shipwreck!"

​St. Michael, defender of souls, pray for us!

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