From Forums of the Virgin Mary [translation; discernments are those of Forums]:
In Garabandal the Virgin Mary reinforced the Catholic doctrine on Purgatory and the Souls in Purgatory confirm Garabandal.
The souls in Purgatory visit Earth with special permission from God to ask for prayers, masses and sacrifices, in order to quickly ascend to Heaven.
And they also do it to fulfill a mission.
And they explained to the mystic María Simma how Heaven reinforced the traditional doctrine of Purgatory in the Apparitions of Garabandal; doctrine that was being questioned in the Church.
And they indicated the veracity of the prophecy of Our Lady in Garabandal, about the eminence of the Warning to illuminate the conscience of human beings and that they return to God.
Here we will talk about the revelations that María Simma received about Garabandal through the Souls in Purgatory that visited her.
It is said that the sufferings of the senses and the losses that occur in Purgatory surpass all human sufferings.
But Saint Catherine of Genoa has also said that there is no happiness comparable to that of the soul in Purgatory, except that of the saints in Heaven.
Because their happiness lies in the fact that they are sure that they cannot be lost.
The souls in purgatory do not want to return to Earth because they consider it a place of darkness, where the soul can be lost.
While there, even if they have to suffer many years, they know with absolute certainty that they will go to Heaven.
However, these Church teachings had a strong eroding force due to the controversies that arose around the Second Vatican Council, which functioned from 1961 to 1965, superimposed on the Garabandal Apparitions.
Mary, the Rosary, the Eucharist, and the priesthood were by far the points that came under the greatest attack in the Council discussions.
And Purgatory and Hell also came under attack by some who developed new ways of thinking.
But God anticipated this erosion and gave the remedy to His Church through the messages of Garabandal.
There, more than 2,000 apparitions occurred between mid-1961 and the end of 1965 to four girls.
The messages given directly or indirectly in these apparitions gave us the answer to the problems that began to worry the Church due to the preaching of the modernists.
These attacked points of the Catholic doctrine were enunciated in Garabandal in one way or another.
God, through Mary, wanted to convey to us the need to maintain our traditional convictions and beliefs, and to maintain our religious practices that were practiced until then.
The message about Purgatory was given in Garabandal indirectly through the girls’ own actions.
It was a lesson communicated not through words, but through actions, which were seen in practice at the time.
Our Lady often led seers in ecstasy to pray for the Souls in Purgatory.
Implicit in the message was the teaching that all souls that are saved do not go directly or immediately to heaven.
Some of them are not ready to see God and must be cleansed, thus making atonement for their sins in an intermediate place, which we call Purgatory, that is, a place of purge.
And there was also a direct reference to Purgatory in Garabandal, which has to do with the items kissed by the Blessed Virgin during the events.
Our Lady told Conchita that those who use them with faith and trust will make their Purgatory on Earth.
The prayer for the Souls in Purgatory was common in Garabandal since time immemorial.
At dusk, a woman walked the streets, according to an old custom, ringing a bell, to invite the neighbors to pray for the Souls in Purgatory.
The visits of the girls to the cemetery in ecstasy and the prayers for the deceased relatives when they visited the houses, were frequent during the Apparitions.
Our Lady confirmed this habit of praying for souls, when She herself guided the girls in a state of ecstasy.
He would take them to the village cemetery, alone or accompanied by other people.
And this happened more often during the month of November than at other times of the year.
The people of Garabandal were not in the habit of visiting their deceased relatives in cemeteries.
Normally, the villagers were afraid to enter the cemetery, until the apparitions.
But the Blessed Virgin led the visionaries, praying the Rosary, in ecstasy, to the cemetery and the villagers who followed them on those occasions were not afraid.
Although as a general rule, the girls did not enter the cemetery, they sometimes entered and prayed over each grave.
They almost always stayed outside the bars of the main gate of the cemetery , which is situated on a plot of land a little way out of town.
The usual thing was that they went to the cemetery singing and there they recited a mystery of the rosary on their knees.
And then at the door, Conchita or another of the seers would stretch out her arm through the bars with the crucifix in her hand.
It seemed that she offered it to be kissed by the deceased who were in the graves.
They placed it higher and lower, as if the deceased and invisible souls they gave the Crucifix to kiss had different heights.
It was a moving experience, even for the hardest of hearts.
Even once, when Conchita had finished and had moved fifty meters towards the town, she returned to the cemetery, put her hand between the bars and gave him a kiss again, as there would be someone who at first did not want to kiss the crucifix, or as if some other deceased had delayed to kiss him.
And when they entered, they went from tomb to tomb, miraculously remembering who was in each one.
In November they went around the town praying up to five times, leading the crowd behind them and stopping at the gates of the cemetery to pray for the souls in Purgatory.
Other times the girls, in ecstasy, had the habit of going to take the Crucifix to the sick and elderly people.
When one was very old or was about to die or was very sick, they would go to the house at night and say two or three Rosaries with him.
They did the same in front of photographs of the deceased and on the beds of those who lived in the houses.
Finally, after one last turn around the church, they stopped before its doors and began to lift each other up, to receive the Virgin’s farewell kiss and to give hers as well.
And have the souls in Purgatory who visit Earth said anything about the apparitions in Garabandal and about the events that Our Lady prophesied there?
Maria Simma, the mystic who received frequent visits from these poor souls, has been told that something truly important is going to happen on Earth and that it is at the door.
She says that for many years they told her that it was “at the door”, but since May 1993 they have used the expression “it is at the door”.
And that it will be something for the conversion of humanity.
They told him that the Warning to illuminate consciences, prophesied by Our Lady in Garabandal, will come from God and will be for the conversion of all.
God will make His existence very clear, but even so, not everyone will turn their hearts toward Him.
They told him that the 20th century cannot be compared to any other century in terms of apostasy, lack of mercy and prayerlessness.
And this is because the devil has been very active , because he knows that a great event is about to occur and that it will serve for the conversion of humanity.
Satan knows that he will soon be greatly weakened and he always gives his loudest cry before being defeated.
In addition, the souls in Purgatory told him that the Church is in the worst state in its history.
There will be a great change, which we could call purification.
But they also informed him that the situation will improve later, and that we have hope.
The Souls in Purgatory told him that there are many priests, bishops and cardinals in Purgatory and also that others have been lost forever in hell.
And they have told him that it is the priests who have the most responsibility for the current situation of the Church.
The Souls in Purgatory have told him that never before in the history of the Church has it been in as bad a state as it is today.
Everywhere the sin of apostasy reigns, and it is the priests who will be held most responsible for it.
Instead of praying and teaching the Word, they seem to run from one place to another studying psychology, public speaking, accounting or whatever, learning how to approach their audience.
It is they who must show the people how to approach Jesus and Mary through prayer, and not try to teach themselves to adjust to this highly secularized society.
The girls from Garabandal had pointed out that, before the Warning arrives, the Church would have to go through a tough test.
In which external factors such as persecution would come together, and internal factors such as a crisis of faith , and which would give the impression that the Church would be about to perish.
The souls also said that we should pray for the United States because what is at the door will affect it.
Well, so far about the revelations related to Purgatory in the Garabandal apparitions and the corroboration of their veracity, by the Souls in Purgatory that visit Earth.
And I would like to ask you if you think that most of the Catholics you know believe that the souls in Purgatory visit Earth or not.