Practical Steps To Implement Our Lady’s Request

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PRACTICAL STEPS TO IMPLEMENT OUR LADY’S REQUEST

From Susan Tassone:

Prayer for Healing the Family Tree – Love Being Catholic

“Pray for all our deceased and for our entire lineage, that Our Lord may free us from every evil, from all evil that our relatives have done. That through our prayer, our penance, we may ask for the grace that our ancestors may come out of purgatory and go to Heaven.”    (Our Lady of Medjugorje, June 18, 2026)

To heal our family tree and release our ancestors from purgatory, we must actively participate in the Church’s treasury of grace. Here is how you can use these powerful daily sacramentals and devotions:

Holy Water, Candles, and the Eternal Rest Prayer

Do not underestimate the power of the Church’s sacramentals; they are the ultimate toolkit for spiritual warfare and deliverance. You can combine three ancient Catholic customs into one rapid-fire daily habit of mercy for your lineage:

  • The Blessed Candle: Light a blessed candle in your parish church or home altar. A candle is an extension of your prayer. Long after you walk away, that burning flame stands in your place, constantly pleading for your family tree. By using a blessed candle, you employ a powerful sacramental that invites the warmth of Christ’s presence and drives away spiritual darkness. It serves as a literal visual petition for the “Perpetual Light” of Christ to pierce the darkness of purgatory.
  • The Holy Water: Sprinkle a few drops of holy water onto the ground, a grave, or before your home altar. Holy water acts as a spiritual balm, providing immediate refreshment and relief to the Holy Souls. By utilizing the collective prayer and authority of the Mystical Body of Christ, every drop offered in faith helps satisfy their remaining temporal debts.
  • The Eternal Rest Prayer: As you sprinkle the water and light the flame, recite the Requiem Aeternam:

“By this holy water and by Thy Precious Blood, wash away all my sins, O Lord, and relieve the souls in purgatory. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.”

This simple five-second Eternal Rest prayer, which is the official prayer of the Church for the dead, targets the two greatest sufferings of purgatory: it soothes the soul’s restless homesickness for God and begs Christ to illuminate their path to the Kingdom. Backed by a partial indulgence which you can gain multiple times EACH DAY, repeating this combination throughout November is like sending a steady stream of spiritual rescue ropes down into your family lineage. Much like St. John Macias, who constantly used sacramentals to comfort his suffering friends in the afterlife, you can use this daily routine to transform your family tree into a legacy of saints.

[resources: Susan Tassone’s books and Michael Brown online retreat, 11/7]

Note: We note that under the recent guidance by the Vatican on September 19, 2024, the declaration states that the messages of Our Lady in Medjugorje are alleged messages and have not been formally declared of supernatural origin. Under the Vatican’s guidance issued on September 19, 2024 about Medjugorje, however, the faithful are free to give adherence in a prudent manner to this aspect of the spiritual phenomenon in Medjugorje.