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_005459563	Haffert, John M.	Saturday in purgatory?	1943		.txt	text/plain	6420	237	62	These mysterious words, at the Offertory of the Mass of Our Lady of the Scapular, allude to an even more mysterious privilege ... a privilege now known all the world over as “The Sabbatine Privilege,” and which might be worded according to that verse from Ezechiel: “The gate of Heaven, which looks towards Purgatory, shall not be shut longer than six days against Scapular-wearers, who have in life ob- served chastity according to their state while prac- ticing a prescribed daily work; for, on the first Sat- urday after their death, it shall be opened.” With Saint Bonaventure, we hear Her saying in the words of Holy Scripture: “I have penetrated, the depths of the abyss, that is, the depths of Purgatory, to help those holy souls ” Saint Bernardine said, before Our Lady established the Sabbatine Privilege, that Our Lady always liber- ated Her special devotees from the torments of Purgatory in shortened time, and Saint Denis the Carthusian and Saint Peter Damian had written that on the feasts of the Assumption, Christmas, and Easter: “Our Lady descends into Purgatory and takes many souls from it.” Now Our Lady has declared that She will not wait for the great Feasts to liberate Her devotees of the Scapular.	cache/_005459563.txt	txt/_005459563.txt