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generously, the help offered for His sake to the
Poor Souls.

It is salutary . . .By helping the Poor Souls, we assure ourselves their gratitude; they will pray
for us, especially after their entrance into eternal happiness; in particular will they endeavor
to obtain for us the grace of a happy death.

"On awaking this morning, on the Sunday of the
Good Shepherd," wrote St. Margaret Mary over two hundred years ago, "two of my suffering friends
came to take leave of me; today the Good Shepherd received them into His eternal home. They left
with untold joy and happiness. When I asked them to remember me, they replied: 'Ingratitude has
never entered heaven."'