We owe it through charity toward our neighbor to help the souls in Purgatory . . . [T]hey are unfortunate beings who, sighing beneath the weight of misery, could not make their voices heard if they were to cry for help; and to whom could they cry? -- to God? But justice, which is there, replies: The debt must be paid, the soul must be purified. If they were to cry to us, alas! we should not hear them; their only resource is to borrow the voice in which the Church speaks today, exclaiming: "Have pity on me, you at least, my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me!"
-- Hamon,
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