Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich - The Real Presence

1 PURGATORY Associazione Carlo Acutis1774-1824he Blessed anne Catherine Emmerichhad various mystic experiences inregard to Purgatory, as she herselfrecounts. The first one occurred onSeptember 24, 1820: I had received aheavy task in the house of the wedding , I could not finish it; I had to struggle toclean much garbage using a hard my mother appeared and helped my mother led me to many placeswhere the souls were staying; I was alsobrought on top of a mountain on which aluminous spirit shining like copper, tied to a chain, tried to approach me.

2 He wasthere for a long time, no one rememberedhim nor helped him; he spoke very little,only a few words, nevertheless I came toknow his entire story. He had been, in histime, the King of England and led the waragainst France; he employed atrociousmethods and had a very wicked seemed to me that his mother wasresponsible for the origin of his destroyed all the images of the MostHoly Virgin Mary, and one time while passing in front of a statue of the HolyVirgin he wanted to destroy even that one,but he experienced a profound emotionand did not wish to do it any longer.

3 Afterthis experience, he repented bitterly andwould have willingly confessed, but he diedfrom a very strong fever; he found mercyand did not die damned. Thus he couldbe helped, but he had been completelyforgotten. He told me that he could behelped particularly with the celebration ofthe Holy Mass, so that he would be able to obtain his longed for liberation beforethe designated time. The place where hestayed did not seem to be the normalPurgatory, but perhaps an adjacent saw him persecuted and mauled by dogsin the manner in which he had persecutedpeople; he was chained in many spots andlived in an area covered by enflamed told me that only the slightest hope of his liberation from that place wouldhave been for him a great consolation.

4 Iencountered him three times. The second time occurred onSeptember 27, 1820: Last night I prayeda lot for the poor souls and I saw manywonderful things and the unfathomablemercy of God. I saw again the sorrowfulEnglish king and I prayed also for him. Itwas made clear to me how good and evil can be passed on from ancestors tochildren and how their action, and theirwill, can be the cause of salvation ordamnation. I saw assistance to the soulscoming from the richness of the Churchand from her members.

5 Many priests weresuffering; they were the ones who in lifehad always aspired to a little place inParadise only because they distributedCommunion and celebrated Masses. NowI saw them in indescribable repentance fortheir missed works of love and assistancetowards the poor souls. At this time theywere aspiring, silently, with an unquenchabledesire to be able to help and labor. Alltheir indolence is turned into pain of thesoul, their calmness into impatience, theirinaction into a barrier; all these punishmentsare the consequence of evil.

6 In Purgatory I saw also and especially the condition ofchildren who had been killed before andright after birth, however it is somethingthat I would not know how to represent,even if I could reveal it, and therefore Ileave it out. TBlessed anne Catherine Emmerich