Purgatory

[Mickey]

We should pray for everyone?

Yes.

Philthy:
Even the Saints? Do you pray for St Paul? Mary? St Ignatious?
Those who are glorified we ask to pray for us.

 

[Mickey]

Scripture tells us to specifically pray for a brother we “see” sinning - if the sin is not “deadly”.

Pray for them–of course. But do not judge them. You are not a heart reader.

 

[Mickey]

Purgatory is a state of being

Others are telling me it is a place. This is where it gets confusing.

Philthy:
If so, is it wrong to give the non-Heaven, non-Hell mystery a name?
I don’t know. The Orthodox didn’t.

 

[Mickey]

apart from your excellent personal assurances I am nothing but a wretched sinner. I do not expect you do be assured by anything I say.

Philthy:
You listed the seven “Ecumenical Councils”.
Yes. They are part of Rome’s Sacred Tradition also.

 

[Mickey]

But that is just how great Gods mercy is.

God’s mercy is infinite.

 

[cazayoux]

Others are telling me it is a place. This is where it gets confusing.

I’m one of the guilty parties here.
I did always have it in my mind that Purgatory was a place.
This thread got me to look at the catechism.

I still don’t understand state versus place, but I’m praying about it.
i guess in my human mind i see ‘place’ as something physical, ‘state’ as something non-physical… does it have to do with having a body?
i see heaven as a place … where we will eventually have our glorified bodies, but angels are there, and they don’t have bodies.

working it out.

michel

 

[Mickey]

working it out.

I understand.

May you have a joyful-mourning Lenten season.