[Apologetics] Urgent Prayer Request

Thu Apr 15 15:36:58 EDT 2004

Dianne,

I've prayed for your friend and will do so again
today.

However, I seriously doubt the story about the sinful
Pope who was dying and did not know that a sincere Act
of Contrition would obtain forgiveness, to say nothing
about the Sacrament of Confession.

If this story is true, WHO was that Pope? WHERE was
this information obtained?

There have been a few sinful (and many saintly) Popes,
but they were all OK to good on theological matters.

Art

--- Dianne Dawson <rcdianne at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> I have a most urgent prayer request. A very dear
> friend of mine, Kathy Santos, is at death’s door.
> She is 61yo and has Emphysema. Kathy’s daughter
> called me at 6:30am to tell me that they had almost
> lost her last night but she rallied.
> 
> Kathy, in her chronic illness, has been through
> bouts of anger at God and has been very despondent.
> She has been annointed by a priest and is right with
> God and the Church. She is frightened and is
> fighting to stay as long as she can. She made peace
> with one of her sons but the other one probably
> won’t come around.
> 
> I met Kathy in 1993 in Conyers, Georgia. I haven’t
> seen her since but we’ve had a very close
> relationship and have talked by phone at least every
> 2-3 weeks for the last eleven years.
> 
> Please join me in prayer for her family and for
> Kathy that she may be enveloped with Christ’s peace
> and will reach out with great joy to His loving,
> waiting arms.
> 
> Dianne
> 
> P.S. If you would like to send her daughter, Sue
> Shea, a note of comfort her address is
> sueshea at snet.net 
> 
> >From the Pieta Prayer Book -
> 
> THREE VERY BEAUTIFUL PRAYERS
> 
> Which are very useful to a dying person, and should
> be prayed often as an act of mercy.
> 
> There once was a Pope in Rome who was surrounded by
> many sins. The Lord God struck him with a fatal
> illness. When he saw that he was dying, he summoned
> Cardinals, Bishops and learned persons and said to
> them: "My dear friends! What comfort can you give me
> now that I must die, and when I deserve eternal
> damnation for my sins?" No one answered him. One of
> them, a pious curate named John, said: "Father, why
> do you doubt the Mercy of God?" The Pope replied:
> "What comfort can you give me now that I must die
> and fear that I'll be damned for my sins?" John
> replied: "I'll read these prayers over you; I hope
> you'll be comforted and that you will obtain Mercy
> from God." The Pope was unable to say more. The
> curate and all those present knelt and said an Our
> Father, then the following Prayers:
> 
> 1. Prayer
> Lord Jesus Christ! Thou Son of God and Son of the
> Virgin Mary, God and Man, Thou who in fear sweated
> blood for us on the Mount of Olives in order to
> bring peace, and to offer Thy Most Holy Death to God
> Thy Heavenly Father for the salvation of this dying
> person...
> If it be, however, that by his sins, he merits
> eternal damnation, then may it be deflected from
> him. This, O Eternal Father through Our Lord Jesus
> Christ, Thy Dear Son, Who liveth and reigneth in
> union with The Holy Spirit now and forever. Amen
> 
> 2. Prayer
> Lord Jesus Christ! Thou Who meekly died on the trunk
> of the Cross for us, submitting Thy Will completely
> to Thy Heavenly Father in order to bring peace and
> to offer Thy Most Holy Death to Thy Heavenly Father
> in order to free... (this person) ...and to hide
> from him what he has earned with his sins; grant
> this O Eternal Father! Through Our Lord Jesus Thy
> Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in union with
> the Holy Spirit now and forever. Amen.
> 
> 3. Prayer
> Lord Jesus Christ! Thou Who remained silent to speak
> through the mouths of the Prophets: I have drawn
> Thee to me through Eternal Love, which Love drew
> Thee from Heaven into the body of the Virgin, which
> Love drew Thee from the body of the Virgin into the
> valley of this needful world, which Love kept Thee
> 33 years in this world, and as a sign of Great Love,
> Thou hast given Thy Holy Body as True Food and Thy
> Holy Blood as True Drink, as a sign of Great Love,
> Thou hast consented to be condemned to death, and
> hast consented to die and to be buried and truly
> risen, and appeared to Thy Holy Mother and all Thy
> Apostles and the hearts of all who hope and believe
> in Thee. Through Thy Sign of Eternal Love, open
> Heaven today and take this dying person ...and all
> his sins into the Realm of Thy Heavenly Father, that
> he may reign with Thee now and forever. Amen.
> 
> Meanwhile, the pope died. The curate persevered to
> the third hour, then the Pope appeared to him in
> body and comforting him; his countenance as
> brilliant as the sun, his clothes as white as snow,
> and he said: "My dear brother! Whereas I was
> supposed to be a child of damnation I've become a
> child of happiness. As you recited the first Prayer,
> many of my sins fell from me as rain from Heaven,
> and as you recited the second Prayer, I was
> purified, as a goldsmith purifies gold in a hot
> fire. I was still purified as you recited the third
> Prayer. Then I saw Heaven open and the Lord Jesus
> standing on the Right Hand of God the Father, Who
> said to me: "Come, all thy sins are forgiven thee,
> you'll be and remain in the Realm of My Father
> forever. Amen!"
> 
> With these words, my soul separated from my body and
> the Angels of God led it to Eternal Joy.
> 
> As the curate heard this he said: "O Holy Father! I
> can't tell these things to anyone, for they won't
> believe me." Then the Pope said: "Truly I tell thee,
> the Angel of God stands with me and has written the
> prayers in letters of gold for the consolement of
> all sinners. If a person had committed all the sins
> in the world, but that the three Prayers shall have
> been read (over him) at his end (death), all his
> sins will be forgiven him, even though his soul was
> supposed to suffer until the Last Judgement, it will
> be redeemed (freed)."
> 
> The person who hears them read, he won't die an
> unhappy death, also in whose house they shall be
> read. Therefore, take these prayers and carry them
> into St. Peter's Basilica and lay them in the Chapel
> named the Assumption of Mary, for certain
> consolation. The person who will be near death, who
> reads them or hears them read, gains 400 years
> indulgence for the days he was supposed to suffer in
> Purgatory because of his guilt. Also, who reads this
> Prayer or hears it read, the hour of his death shall
> be revealed to him. Amen!
> 
>  
> 
> CONSECRATING THE LAST TWO HOURS
> OF OUR LIFE TO THE MOST HOLY VIRGIN
> 
> by the late
> Rev. Fr. Ildefonso M. Izaguirre, O. P.
> 
> Prostrated at thy feet, and humiliated by my sins,
> but full of confidence in thee, O Mary! I beg thee
> to accept the petition my heart is about to make. It
> is for my last moments. Dear Mother I wish to
> request thy protection and maternal love so that in
> the decisive instant that thou wilt do all thy love
> can suggest in my behalf.
> 
> To thee, O Mother of my soul, I consecrate THE LAST
> TWO HOURS of my life. Come to my side to receive my
> last breath and when death has cut the thread of my
> days, tell Jesus, presenting to Him my soul, "I LOVE
> IT". That word alone will be enough to procure for
> me the benediction of my God and the happiness of
> seeing thee for all eternity.
> 
> I put my trust in thee, my Mother and hope it will
> not be in vain.
> 
> O Mary! Pray for thy child and lead him to Jesus!
> 
> Amen.
> 
> "Abandoning the Mother is but one step
> from abandoning the Son"
> 
> 
> 
> Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul
> longs for you, O God.
> 
> Ps 42:1
>  
>  
> 
> 
> 
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