Is it normal to want to go to purgatory over heaven if given the option/

[Layman]

Don’t forget indulgences get you remission of time to be spent in Purgatory. You can get them for yourself or for the Holy Souls, if you follow the conditions exactly.

Note the first four simple ones here:
ourladyswarriors.org/indulge/plenary.htm

BY exactly I mean seeing that you follow the conditions are closely as possible. For example, Stations Of The Cross are the wooden crosses; the pictures are not the station. The crosses all need to be made of wood and there needs to be 14 of them. Otherwise I think the stations are invalidly set up.

 

[The_Old_Medic]

It is God who decides where you go. It sounds very much like you are placing your “opinion” on a higher level that God’s.

 

[Robert_Burns]

Fr. Paul O’Sullivan, O.P. (E.D.M.) - How to Avoid Purgatory
Fr. Paul O’Sullivan, O.P. (E.D.M.) - Read Me or Rue It
Fr. Paul O’Sullivan, O.P. (E.D.M.) - Saint Philomena The Wonder-Worker
Fr. Paul O’Sullivan, O.P. (E.D.M.) - The Wonders of the Holy Name

He’s written a good deal more, all of which can be bought at Tan Books. I have no doubt one way to gather treasure in Heaven is buy them and distribute them in parish foyers and other places here on earth.

I am with you on that - My wife has an Examen for Laity too I dont know where she got it
Good stuff…

 

[Robert_Burns]

It is God who decides where you go. It sounds very much like you are placing your “opinion” on a higher level that God’s.

Well by the same token - GOD Raises up Saints are we to ignore their writings? Their example? Their insight? The Church has idenitifed where they have gone as revealed by GOD to the Church - therefore - to emulate their example is to place GOD’S Opinion before our own , IMO

pax

 

[The_Old_Medic]

This topic is not about people on this earth. It is about people that have died, and at their judgment by God, want something other than what God decides.

I have never heard of a Saint that deliberately attempted to thwart the will of God. Nor would the Church recognize such a person as being a Saint. Quite the opposite, one can not become a Saint, until they utterly submit themselves TO the will of God.

The Church recognizes a number of Saints that lived outside of the laws (and will) of God for a period of time, but they all eventually submitted to him totally and completely.

To do otherwise in heaven, would call not for purgatory, but for total condemnation.