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We can do everything for them, and they can do everything for us. It's like being in the place with the spoons with the five-foot-long handles. Everyone would starve if they tried to feed themselves, but if they feed each other they thrive!

Are we as generous to others as God is to us? And remember the holy souls can do nothing anymore for themselves, yet they can help you.

Got behind... Reading and praying every page, ust not on the death anniversaries. Hope to be caught back up soon.

In addition to recording the names and death anniversaries of family and friends, I was bothered by Oklahoma's continued death row executions. So, I went back through the list of all those who had been murdered by my state from the very beginning and added them plus the names of their victims (where they were given) on the dates of the executions. Eternal rest grant unto them, O LORD, may they rest in peace.

"You the living can do everything for us, and we can do everything for you. It is an exchange of prayers." -The soul of a deceased priest

To whatever extent we become conscious during out earthly lives of our inability to rid ourselves completely of whatever blocks us from intimate union with God, we feel [spiritual] pain. We experience a taste of ‘purgatory’ recognizing how perfectly God loves & how imperfectly we love him in return. Purgatory is our meeting w/Christ who loves & our loving acceptance of that pardoning love. Our passage to holiness.

“I have told you all this about the soul’s interior life and your salvation to make you fall in love with my providence and clothe yourself in the light of faith and firm hope. Thus you will free yourself of selfishness and, in all that is yours to do, trust in me without any slavish fear.” Jesus to Catherine of Siena