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*is a time of waiting after death and in this time of waiting one suffers punishment for sins committed without repentance, or one moves towards union with God (Theosis). *
Roman Catholics like I would say that this Eastern understanding, while different from the more defined concept of Purgatory, is essentially an equivalently valid way of understanding the Revelation handed down to us from Scripture and from the Apostles.
You don’t have to call it purgatory, but if Heaven is for those who are perfect, and no human being can die in perfection (the Theotokos excepted, if she did even “die”), and we pray for the dead, something like this must be the case.
Roman Catholics like I would say that this Eastern understanding, while different from the more defined concept of Purgatory, is essentially an equivalently valid way of understanding the Revelation handed down to us from Scripture and from the Apostles.
You don’t have to call it purgatory, but if Heaven is for those who are perfect, and no human being can die in perfection (the Theotokos excepted, if she did even “die”), and we pray for the dead, something like this must be the case.