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jason3477
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I was wondering, how long will we each stay in purgatory before we go to Heaven?
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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coolduude
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That answer is known but to God.
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Redratfish
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Depends on how much cleaning our soul needs
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fred_conty
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Hi,
Someone died and went to the pearly gates.
Peter was standing there and asked what have you done to deserve heaven?
The person thought and thought and then said “I gave a quarter to a drunk once.”
St. Peter rummaged around in his pockets and then said to the man
“here is your quarter back, go to purgatory.”
Depends on our good things undoing the bad things.
Someone died and went to the pearly gates.
Peter was standing there and asked what have you done to deserve heaven?
The person thought and thought and then said “I gave a quarter to a drunk once.”
St. Peter rummaged around in his pockets and then said to the man
“here is your quarter back, go to purgatory.”
Depends on our good things undoing the bad things.
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mariafransisca2
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thistle
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Only God knows. Nobody else!
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lutherlic
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Only God knows, but I have some speculations…
God, heaven and hell are outside of time. Unclear about purgatory, but if it is then the question is moot. If it isn’t, it will be a finite amount in comparison to all eternity and thus insignificant.
Assuming time is relevant, Redratfish is right too - however long it takes to become cleansed. The usual assumption is that God decides. Consider the possibility that we may decide.
Of course, there is all sorts of speculation on the nature of purgatory, as there is for heaven and hell. It is generally assumed not to be pleasant. My personal analogy is that it may be like a hospital stay. We remain until we are healed. Some of the necessary treatment may be painful. One thing is special, purgatory has a 100% cure rate. (Shameless promotion - I wrote about this in The good side of purgatory.)
God, heaven and hell are outside of time. Unclear about purgatory, but if it is then the question is moot. If it isn’t, it will be a finite amount in comparison to all eternity and thus insignificant.
Assuming time is relevant, Redratfish is right too - however long it takes to become cleansed. The usual assumption is that God decides. Consider the possibility that we may decide.
Of course, there is all sorts of speculation on the nature of purgatory, as there is for heaven and hell. It is generally assumed not to be pleasant. My personal analogy is that it may be like a hospital stay. We remain until we are healed. Some of the necessary treatment may be painful. One thing is special, purgatory has a 100% cure rate. (Shameless promotion - I wrote about this in The good side of purgatory.)
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midori
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About all we can say is it’s finite, and time there doesn’t necessarily exist like time here.
Likewise, there are different levels of purgatory. If you just need a little brushing-off, you go to a higher level for a very brief period. If you have some serious scrubbing to do, you go to a lower level, stay there for as long as you need to rid your soul of its remaining impurities, and work your way up. It varies. A consecrated religious will suffer more than an ordinary person. Someone who was deeply attached to their sin will suffer more than someone who wasn’t.
But to a soul in Purgatory, according to what I’ve read, any amount of time is too long, because no one goes to Purgatory without first seeing God as he is-- in other words, getting a taste of the Beatific Vision that everyone in heaven experiences eternally. To have seen that, and then be deprived of it for a period, is a very difficult thing to suffer, but no matter how much suffering a soul experiences, they still have the joy of knowing they will one day experience that forever.
Who was it who said, “A moment in Purgatory is more painful than a lifetime on earth?”
Likewise, there are different levels of purgatory. If you just need a little brushing-off, you go to a higher level for a very brief period. If you have some serious scrubbing to do, you go to a lower level, stay there for as long as you need to rid your soul of its remaining impurities, and work your way up. It varies. A consecrated religious will suffer more than an ordinary person. Someone who was deeply attached to their sin will suffer more than someone who wasn’t.
But to a soul in Purgatory, according to what I’ve read, any amount of time is too long, because no one goes to Purgatory without first seeing God as he is-- in other words, getting a taste of the Beatific Vision that everyone in heaven experiences eternally. To have seen that, and then be deprived of it for a period, is a very difficult thing to suffer, but no matter how much suffering a soul experiences, they still have the joy of knowing they will one day experience that forever.
Who was it who said, “A moment in Purgatory is more painful than a lifetime on earth?”
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