Hi and thank you and God bless.Welcome home, and prayers ascending for your continued journey.
Remember, Peter said, to God 1000 years is like a day and a day is like 1000 years.
[ 2 Peter 3:8 ]
That time analogy could easily be changed to a trillion years instead of 1000 years.
IOW there is no clock outside of time. No seconds, minutes, hours, days, months years etc. No yesterday, today and tomorrow. A million years from now in eternity, is still now.
Outside of time is where Heaven, purgatory and hell is.
Padre Pio is a great saint. In his last years on earth, Fr Alessio took care of Pio. I met with Fr Alessio 3 months before Alessio died. Fr Alessio had great stories to tell about Pio’s life. Pio told Alessio that while he was saying mass one day, a sacristan who died 70 years prior to this, visited with Pio in a vision. He asked Pio to offer his mass that moment for the sacristan who had been in purgatory all this time for not taking proper care of the altar properly on this side of eternity. If Pio offerd mass for the sacristan, the sacristan would be able to go to heaven. Pio offered the mass for the sacristan and he went to heaven after the mass.
God is outside of time. God is eternal, and He is in eternity. So is hell and so is heaven in eternity And they are eternal i.e. everlasting.steve-b:![]()
How can hell be everlasting if it is outside of time?Outside of time is where Heaven, purgatory and hell is
Welcome home, and prayers ascending for your continued journey.
Remember, Peter said, to God 1000 years is like a day and a day is like 1000 years.
[ 2 Peter 3:8 ]
That time analogy could easily be changed to a trillion years instead of 1000 years.
IOW there is no clock outside of time. No seconds, minutes, hours, days, months years etc. No yesterday, today and tomorrow. A million years from now in eternity, is still now.
Outside of time is where Heaven, purgatory and hell is.
Padre Pio is a great saint. In his last years on earth, Fr Alessio took care of Pio. I met with Fr Alessio 3 months before Alessio died. Fr Alessio had great stories to tell about Pio’s life. Pio told Alessio that while he was saying mass one day, a sacristan who died 70 years prior to this, visited with Pio in a vision. He asked Pio to offer his mass that moment for the sacristan who had been in purgatory all this time for not taking proper care of the altar properly on this side of eternity. If Pio offerd mass for the sacristan, the sacristan would be able to go to heaven. Pio offered the mass for the sacristan and he went to heaven after the mass.
I appreciate muscular Catholicism.That’s what I grew up with
But is it outside of time?purgatory is not eternal.
But it is not eternal. Not forever. By God’s design.