Can a victim intercede for their killer?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Abigail_Lee
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
A

Abigail_Lee

Guest
Is it possible for a murder victim to advocate in behalf of its own killer towards /in front of God?

Lets say you have been murdered by someone and of course , you die. Can you say to God not to punish your killer ,or say:" i do not want that person to end up in Hell ."Can you pray for the killers soul after you die? Can you make /help them repent?
 
I suspect that they could but their intercession would not necessarily be any “more powerful” than anyone else in heaven praying for that killer.
 
Flopfoot said:
I suspect that they could but their intercession would not necessarily be any “more powerful” than anyone else in heaven praying for that killer.
Click to expand...
Hmm… but why not ? They are (victims ) directly involved in that event and most of them know their killer from before .
 
Immediately after death is your Particular Judgment where your lifelong sins are placed before you. At that time, you receive your sentence – Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.

If one were to go immediately to Heaven, perhaps the soul could intercede for the murderer to repent and so on.

However, if a soul goes to Purgatory, they are unable to help themselves or others while they are in Purgatory.

And if a soul goes to Hell, they are damned for eternity where there is NO love for self or others.

Peace.

+JMJ+
 
Abigail_Lee said:
Is it possible for a murder victim to advocate in behalf of its own killer towards /in front of God?

Lets say you have been murdered by someone and of course , you die. Can you say to God not to punish your killer ,or say:" i do not want that person to end up in Hell ."Can you pray for the killers soul after you die? Can you make /help them repent?
Click to expand...
The best thing to do is to forgive that person; they will go to heaven or hell as a result of their own choices, not because you told God not to punish them. No one can make them repent, but prayers are heard and answered in this life and the next.
 
The way Jesus did it was He forgave His murderers before He died.
"Father forgive them, they don’t know what they’ve done.’’

I would think being murdered and offering ones suffering for the conversion of that sinner would go along way to getting that victim soul out of purgatory.
 
Hypothetically, I imagine you could. Of course, no living person can know what is possible in hypotheticals about God or the afterlife.
 
ChurchSuffering said:
That was before she died.
Click to expand...
She forgave him before she died. But she also (allegedly) appeared to him long after her death and told him of the many times she had prayed that he would repent and join her in Heaven one day. Which fits the question in the topic of this thread perfectly.

Usagi
 
Abigail_Lee said:
Is it possible for a murder victim to advocate in behalf of its own killer towards /in front of God?

Lets say you have been murdered by someone and of course , you die. Can you say to God not to punish your killer ,or say:" i do not want that person to end up in Hell ."Can you pray for the killers soul after you die? Can you make /help them repent?
Click to expand...
YES!
Even better the victim forgave the killer before dyeing. And it is a documented case.
St. Maria Goretti (October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902) is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, and she is one of the youngest canonized saints.[1] She was born on the eastern side of Italy to a farming family, but increased poverty forced the family to move to the western side of the country when she was only six. Her father died when she was nine, and the family had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. She took over household duties from her mother, while her mother and the rest of her family worked in the fields. One afternoon, Alessandro, the son of the Serenelli family, made sexual advances to her, but when she refused to submit to him because that would be a mortal sin, he stabbed her fourteen times. She was taken to the hospital, but she died after forgiving him. He was promptly arrested, convicted and jailed. After three years he repented, and when eventually released from prison, he visited her mother begging forgiveness, which she readily granted. He later became a lay brother in a monastery, eventually dying peacefully in 1970. She was beatified in 1947, and canonized in 1950. Her mother attended both ceremonies.
Click to expand...
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top