Priest Helps Boy Who Had Committed Suicide

Today I read a great article on the Spirit Daily website that shows the power of prayer and especially the power of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to help people who have committed suicide.  Here is an excerpt from the article:

A priest in Scottsdale, Arizona, has established a chapel for the souls in purgatory in part as a consequence of his own experiences with the departed on the "other side."

Father Doug Lorig, a convert from the Episcopalian faith, now pastor of one of the most prominent parishes in the Phoenix area, says the Lord has used a number of extraordinary mystical experiences to instruct him on the deeper devotions of Catholicism.

In one case he buried a 17-year-old boy named Tony, who had been involved with drugs and committed suicide. "I prayed for him at every Mass for a year and about a year later went to Queen of Heaven Cemetery for another funeral, of newborn, and parked car at far end of cemetery," says Father Doug. "I then went to the canopy and said prayers and consoled the family and was walking back past all these graves and just stopped because someone was calling my name.

"'Father Doug, Father Doug.'

"And there was nobody there.

"I looked down -- and there was Tony's grave! I happened to be right there. And I had a locution.

"I heard him clearly say to me, 'Father Doug: thank you.'"

To read the full article click on: http://www.spiritdaily.com/lorig.htm