How can a soul be forsaken?

Joseph Ciantar

Oct 5th 2009, 22:04

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Joseph Pavia

Oct 5th 2009, 13:29

This is a hot button you pressed here my friend. A lot of money are made from the unforsaken souls. But that is another story. Allow me to share my opinion:
I am sure you are right by saying that a Soul can never be forsaken by God, our Father. It is perhaps for this reason as to why Catholics are made to believe that there will be always Our Lady that will help those Souls that have none else praying for them to quicken their released from Porgatory. In reality it is only those alive who can forsake the their dead. I am sure it will never be God who forsakes us, His children.
I happen to believe that ultimitely even Lucifer himself will one day see the light and will pray forgiveness. There is nowhere written that the prince of darkness has ever prayed for forgiveness.

Galea. L

Oct 5th 2009, 12:24

Forsaken not by the Lord do Our Lady but by their families, community etc. who forget to pray for them.

Franco Farrugia

Oct 5th 2009, 11:55

Well, Aldo, here is my cent's worth: God, in his infinite wisdom and love for humanity an for His creation, did not want to create robots or slaves but on the contrary, gave man the ultimate gift - which, I am sure, had He been Human, he would have never given!!! - and this gift was freedom. He gave man the freedom to choose his path: to do good or to do evil. That is how God permits evil, by the way. He gave man enough powers, his intellect, to choose. According to the way I understood my Catechism, every man has the freedom to choose and hence we have the Most Important Choice - 'optio fundamentalis'. If you choose evil, you become a 'forsaken soul'.

J. Tonna

Oct 5th 2009, 11:49

I always understood this to mean 'those souls who have no one to pray for them on earth or whose family and friends have forgotten to pray for them'.

I am sure God will not forsake any soul. Jesus said that not even a bird costing one cent is forgotten by God.

Mgr Joseph Farrugia

Oct 5th 2009, 11:41

The souls of the just who are in purgatory, having concluding their eartly life, cannot do anything to improve their chosen lot but depend entirely on the love of God and neighbour. The love of God is manifest in the very creation of purgatory as a state of final purification; the love of neighbour is shown in our various forms of prayer in suffrage for them. God can never forsake souls. We, at times, do. The 'Catechism of the Catholic Church' contains a more articulate answer.

Joe Zammit

Oct 5th 2009, 11:38

The writer is right. There are no forgotten or forsaken souls. The idea of forsaken souls cropped up from the fact that sometimes it happens that when a person dies he or she leaves no relatives to offer Masses for him or her. But this is a false idea.

The Church remembers all the dead who are in Purgatory in every Mass. Those in heaven or hell need no prayers, no Masses. Besides, Christians do well when they pray for all the faithful departed and not just for their relatives and friends.

L Spiteri

Oct 5th 2009, 11:00

This websie gives useful information, including prayers, for abandoned souls.

http://www.helpersoftheholysouls.com/index.htm