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Pious Exercises

Resolution: Today I will do everything possible to assist the souls of the faithful departed from
North America, especially my own town or region. I also recommend myself to those who are
entering heaven at this moment.

Thought for the day: "Do good and share what you have; God is pleased by sacrifices of that kind."
(Heb. 13, 16).

Exercise: Give an alms for the propagation of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Special intention: Pray for the soul which is nearest to heaven.

Motive: The closer a soul is to the end of its sufferings, the more ardently will it long for union
with the Sacred Heart. Remove, therefore, by your prayers, the obstacles still in its way. In
return, it will obtain for you the grace to sever the ties which now prevent you from giving
yourself entirely to God.

Prayer: O Lord God, I pray You, by the Blood which Your divine Son Jesus shed for us, deliver the
souls in Purgatory, and that soul especially which is nearest to its entrance into Your glory; thus
it may begin to praise and bless You forever. Amen.

Our Father . ..Hail Mary.

Invocation: Heart of Mary, be my salvation!