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by Tim Heller, FICF
 After a Knight's funeral the other week, my thoughts were with the family of that Brother Knight…to his wife, his children, his beautiful grandchildren.   Afterwards, I went inside and sat down at my computer and began typing…

  

Wheat, corn, oil, uranium, diamonds, gold, platinum…

What is the single most valuable commodity in the entire world?

What is so valuable that, throughout the course of history: kings and queens, emperors and politicians, even Popes and paupers have gone to the ends of the earth to covet?

What is so valuable that men have been willing to sell their souls to obtain?

What is the one thing that even Warren Buffet and Bill Gates combined can’t buy?

My friends, what is the one thing that even you will NEVER have enough of?

Four simple letters.  TIME

Do we ever have enough time with the ones we love?

Do we ever have enough time in the day to accomplish the most important things?

Do we ever spend enough time in every day with our Lord and Savior?

Do we know the hour and day when we will have no more time?

Will someone ring a bell the day or week before we have no more time?

Will you wake up tomorrow morning?

Is there still enough time?

Have you spent enough time planning for this eventuality?

Do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that your family will have the resources they need to fill the financial void you leave behind?

Will they know that you took the time to show them that you cared enough to meet their needs?

Put your watch to your ear and listen closely to the tick-tock of the second hand…Those seconds are gone.  That time is gone, forever.

You are now seconds closer to the day you hear those words from your doctor…

You are now seconds closer to the moment you will hear these words from a priest "Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his love and mercy help you with the grace of the Holy Spirit.  May the Lord who frees you from sin save you and raise you up." your last rites.

You are now seconds closer to the moment you can no longer make changes in how you will be remembered.

Some of you are like me, you’ve buried grandparents and maybe a couple of friends (albeit, too early.)  Some of you have buried wives…some sadly children…some sadly grandchildren.

Will you be remembered as one who did the right things and made the right plan for that moment in time?

Take time for the ones you love.  Take time to spend with your Lord and Savior in prayer and adoration.

Take the time to meet with your Field Agent.  Take the time to put the right plans in place.

Take the time…for the ones you love.  Brothers, take the time to do what is right.

 

Prayer of St. Gertrude the Great

Our Lord dictated the following prayer to St. Gertrude the great to release 1,000 Souls from Purgatory each time it is said.

“Eternal Father I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family.  Amen.”

(Please memorize this prayer in order to say it more often no matter where you may be.)

Background:

St. Gertrude’s life was the mystic life of the Cloister – a Benedictine nun.  She meditate on the Passion of Christ, which many times brought a flood of tears to her eyes.  She did many penances and Our Lord appearedto her many times.  She had a tender love for the Blessed Virgin and was very devoted to the suffering souls in Purgatory.  She died in 1334.  Her feast day is November 16th.

 The Holy Souls will repay us a thousand times over

 Now who can be in more urgent need of out charity than the souls in Purgatory?  What hunger, or thirst, or dire suffering on earth can compare to their dreadful torments?  Neither the poor, nor the sick, nor the suffering, we see around us, have such an urgent need of our help.  Yet we find many good-hearted people who interest themselves in every other type of suffering, but alas! scarcely one who works for the Holy Souls.

 Who can have more claim on us?  Among them too, there may be our mothers and fathers, our friends and near of kin.

 When they are finally released from their pains and enjoy the beatitude of Heaven, far from forgetting their friends on earth, their gratitude knows no bounds.  Prostrate before the Throne of God, they never cease to pray for those who helped them.  By their prayers they shield their friends from many dangers and protect them from the evils that threaten them.

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