Maria Simma: the souls of Purgatory have told me

Maria Agata Simma was born on February 5, 1915 in Sonntag (Vorarlberg). Sonntag is located at the far edge of the Grosswalsertal, about 30 km east of Feldkírch in Austria.

Her three stays in the convent formed her and made her progress spiritually, thus preparing her for her apostolate in favor of the souls of purgatory. Her spiritual life is characterized by filial love for the Blessed Virgin and by the desire to help the souls in purgatory, but also to help the Missions by all means.
She voted her virginity to Our Lady and made the consecration to Maria del Santo Grignon de Montfort, in favor, above all, of the deceased, she also offered herself to God, making him the vow as "ani. but victim ”, victim of love and atonement.
It seems that Maria Simma has now found the vocation that God has assigned her: to help the souls in purgatory with prayer, expiatory suffering and the apostolate.

HELP TO THE SOULS OF THE PURGATORY
Already from childhood, Maria Simma had come to the aid of the souls in purgatory with prayers gaining them indulgences. Starting in 1940 the souls of purgatory sometimes came to ask her for help in prayer. On the day of all the Saints of 1953 Simma began to help the deceased with expiatory sufferings. He suffered greatly from an officer who died in Carinthia in 1660.
These pains corresponded to the sins to be expiated.
During the week following the feast of all Saints, it seems that the souls of purgatory receive graces, through the intervention of the Most Holy Virgin. The month of November also seems to be a particularly abundant time for them.
Maria Simma was delighted to see the month of November finished, but it was only at the feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8) that her mission really began.
A priest from Cologne, who died in 555, presented himself with a desperate air: he came to ask her about the expiatory sufferings that she had to accept spontaneously, otherwise he would have had to suffer until the universal judgment. Simma accepted; and it was a week of terrible pain for her. Every night this soul came to give her new sufferings. It was as if all her limbs had been dislocated. This soul oppressed it, crushed it, so to speak; and always, from all sides, new swords penetrated her violently. Another time it was as if a blunt blade was leaning against her, which, curving, following resistance, stuck in every part of her body. This soul was to expiate murders (he had participated in the martyrdom of the companions of Sant'Orsola), his lack of faith, adulterers and sacrilegious Masses.

AND ALWAYS NEW SOULS WERE CLAIMING FOR AID
The expiatory sufferings he suffered from contraceptive practices and impurity were terrible bodily pain and horrible nausea.
Then she seemed to lie for hours between blocks of ice, the cold penetrating them to the core; it was the atonement of lukewarmness and coldness from a religious point of view.

In August 1954 a new method began to help souls. A certain Paul Gisinger of Koblach announced himself asking him to ask his seven children, whose name he indicated, to give him 100 shillings for the Missions and to have two Masses celebrated, only in this way he could be freed.
Similar questions followed in October: smaller or larger amounts in favor of the missions, honoraries for Masses, recitations of the Rosary were renewed forty more times. The souls always announced themselves personally, without Mary asking them questions.
In the same month of October 1954 a soul of purgatory told her that during the week of the dead she could ask questions to all the souls that their relatives were willing to help, giving them the necessary help.

HOW DO PURGATORY SOULS APPEAR?
The souls of purgatory appear in different forms and in different ways. Some knock, others appear suddenly. The one shows themselves under a human appearance, clearly visible as at the time of their mortal life, usually dressed as on weekdays, others instead dressed in an evanescent way. The souls who are wrapped in the terrible fire of purgatory make a frightening impression. The more they are purified from their sufferings, the more luminous and affable they become. Often they tell how they sinned and how they escaped from hell thanks to Divine Mercy; sometimes they add teachings and exhortations to their statements.
For other souls Maria Simma feels that they are present and that she must pray and suffer for them. During Lent, souls manifest themselves only to ask Mary to suffer for them during the night and also during the day.
It also happens that souls in purgatory appear in extraordinary forms that are frightening. Sometimes they speak, as during their life, in their dialect. Those who are foreign-speaking speak German badly with a foreign accent. therefore in a personal way.

THE VISION OF THE PURGATORY
"Purgatory is found in several places," replied Maria one day. "Souls never come" out of purgatory, but "with purgatory". Maria Simma saw purgatory in several ways:
once in one way and another time in a different way. In purgatory there is an immense crowd of souls, it is a constant coming and going. One day she saw a large number of souls absolutely unknown to her. Those who had sinned against faith carried a dark flame on their hearts, others who had sinned against purity a red flame. Then she saw the souls in a group: priests, men and women religious; he saw Catholics, Protestants, pagans. The souls of Catholics suffer more than those of Protestants. The pagans, on the other hand, have an even gentler purgatory, but they receive less help, and their punishment lasts longer. Icattolici receive more and are freed faster. She also saw many men and women religious condemned to purgatory for their lukewarm faith and their lack of charity. Six-year-olds can be forced to suffer long enough in purgatory.
Maria Simma was revealed the wonderful harmony that exists between love and divine justice. Each soul is punished according to the nature of its faults and the degree of attachment to the sin committed.
The intensity of suffering is not the same for every soul. Some have to suffer like you suffer on earth when living a hard life, and have to wait to contemplate God. A day of rigorous purgatory is more terrible than ten years of light purgatory. Penalties vary widely in duration. A priest from Cologne remained in purgatory from 555 until the Ascension of 1954; and, if he had not been freed from the sufferings accepted by Maria Simma, he would have had to suffer for a long time and in a terrible way.
There are also souls who must suffer terribly until the end of universal judgment. Others have only half an hour of suffering to endure, or even less: they only "go through purgatory in flight", so to speak.
The devil can torture the souls of purgatory, especially those who have been the cause of the damnation of others.
The souls of purgatory suffer with admirable patience and praise the Divine mercy, thanks to which they have escaped hell. They know that they deserved to suffer and deplore their faults. They beg Mary, Mother of Mercy.
Maria Simma also saw many souls waiting for the help of the Mother of God.
Anyone who thinks during their life that purgatory is a small thing and takes advantage of it to sin must expiate it hard.

HOW CAN WE COME IN AID OF THE SOULS OF PURGATORY?
1) Especially with the sacrifice of the Mass, which nothing could make up for.

2) With expiatory sufferings: any physical or moral suffering offered to souls.

3) after the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Rosary is the most effective means of helping the souls in purgatory. It brings them great relief. Every day many souls are freed through the Rosary, otherwise they would have had to suffer many more years.

4) The Via Crucis can also bring them great relief.

5) Indulgences are of immense value, souls say. They are an appropriation of the satisfaction offered by Jesus Christ to God, His Father. Anyone who during the earthly life gains many indulgences for the deceased will also receive, more than others in the last hour, the grace to fully gain the plenary indulgence granted to every Christian in "articulo mortis". It is a cruelty not to put to profit these treasures of the Church for the souls of the dead. Let's see! If you were in front of a mountain full of gold coins and had the opportunity to take at will to help poor people unable to take them, wouldn't it be cruel to refuse them this service? In many places the use of indulgent prayers decreases year by year, and so also in our regions. The faithful should be exhorted more to this practice of devotion.

6) Alms and good works, especially gifts in favor of the Missions, help the souls in purgatory.

7) The burning of the candles helps the souls: first because this loving attention gives them moral help then because the candles are blessed and illuminate the darkness in which the souls find themselves.
An eleven year old boy from Kaiser asked Maria Simma to pray for him. He was in purgatory to have, on the day of the dead, blown out the candles burning in the graves at the cemetery and to have stolen the wax for fun. Blessed candles have a lot of value for souls. On the day of Candlemas Maria Simma had to light two candles for one soul while enduring for it expiatory sufferings.

8) The throwing of blessed water mitigates the pains of the dead. One day, passing by, Maria Simma threw water blessed for souls. A voice said to her: "Again!".
All means do not help souls in the same way. If during his life someone has little esteem for Mass, he will not take advantage of it when he is in purgatory. If someone has had a heart failure during their lifetime, they receive little help.

Those who sinned by defaming others must hardly atone for their sin. But anyone who has had a good heart alive receives a lot of help.
A soul who had neglected to attend Mass was able to ask for eight Masses for his relief, since during his mortal life he had eight Masses celebrated for a soul of purgatory.

Source: lalucedimaria.it