Fringe Benefits

My family's response to God's calling into this Apostolate has brought us blessings upon blessings. One thing for sure, it opened our hearts and minds to the necessity to pray for our dear departed friends and loved ones.  The earned benefits of this is hard to equate.
Although praying the 30-Day Novena for the Souls in Purgatory promises the prayer warrior the grace of receiving confirmations (in forms of visions, feeling, dreams, sounds, etc.) that his prayers were received resulting to the liberation of the souls or a particular soul, it shouldn't be a condition to accept this Apostolate.  With our current state of being with the Church Militant (Ecclesia Militans, The Living), it is our duty to pray for the liberation of those who are at the Church Suffering (Ecclesia Penitens, Purgatory or Church Expectant Ecclesia Expectans) to bring them to the Church Triumphant( Ecclesia Triumphans), Heaven)*. Accomplishing this duty of ours for our Lord's glory and the comfort of praying for the Souls in Purgatory is already more than enough reason to do this.
When my family and I accepted this Apostolate, we didn't expect the grace of receiving confirmations. But, our dear Lord though His goodness, has abundantly blessed us with such.  This Blog is a sharing of those.
*For more reading on the Universal Church's division, The Church Militant, Church Suffering or Expectant and Church Triumphant, please refer to the article of the subject at www.wikipedia.com