Assisting the Souls in Purgatory: The Most Excellent of the Works of Mercy

"To assist the souls in Purgatory

is to perform the most excellent of the works of Mercy,

or rather it is to practise in a most sublime manner

all the works of Mercy together :

it is to visit the sick ;

it is to give drink to those who thirst for the vision of God;

it is to feed the hungry,

to ransom prisoners,

to clothe the naked,

to procure for poor exiles the hospitality of the Heavenly Jerusalem;

it is to comfort the afflicted,

to instruct the ignorant-

in fine, to practise all works of Mercy in one."

~ St. Francis de Sales ~