How can we avoid going to Purgatory?

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I’d be grateful if you would explain the church teaching about penance and full and partial indulgence and what it takes to avoid purgatory. I’ve read a bit but am still not very clear about what these things actually mean.

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I think the simplest way to think of it is in positive terms-rather than thinking about what we must avoid doing.

***When we’ve come to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength and our neighbor as ourselves, we are fully just. ***

Pharisees et al may well have fulfilled the letter of the law-avoiding sin and doing whatever the law proscribes- but unless they had love, their “obedience" was empty-and the spirit of the law was still left unfulfilled.
 
maritain said:
See this booklet from 1936 entitled ‘How to Avoid Purgatory’ (just click on cover to upload pdf)

lxoa.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/how-to-avoid-purgatory/
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Fr. Paul O’Sullivan, O.P., E.D.M.'s series of little booklets are priceless. Tan sells them, and they’re great to put in churches, and many are available in the public domain for free online too.

A person who doesn’t think about purgatory is going to have a hard time in the next life, if such a person gets even that far.

Penance, mortification, and the will never to voluntarily commit a single venial sin. . . and more… that’s the way. Show love and mercy to the holy souls and obtain mercy. 🙂
 
Thanks for posting this. I am very interested in this, too.
 
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