What is Purgatory and how does it work?

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it would be interesting to explore the concepts, origins and debunking misconceptions.
 
I am do some research and thinking about these concepts, I tried to do RICA classes. I couldn’t attend the sessions to do distance and timing. I think I grabbed the bulls by the horn without coming to terms and questioning myself. I got interested due to something spiritual. Now I think it is time to do it through thinking.
 
Excellent.
Perhaps someone at the parish who is a certified catechist can also mentor you besides posting here
Good luck on your study!
 
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it would be interesting to explore the concepts, origins and debunking misconceptions.
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Catechism of the Catholic Church
The punishments of sin

1472 To understand this doctrine and practice of the Church, it is necessary to understand that sin has a double consequence. Grave sin deprives us of communion with God and therefore makes us incapable of eternal life, the privation of which is called the “eternal punishment” of sin. On the other hand every sin, even venial, entails an unhealthy attachment to creatures, which must be purified either here on earth, or after death in the state called Purgatory. This purification frees one from what is called the “temporal punishment” of sin. These two punishments must not be conceived of as a kind of vengeance inflicted by God from without, but as following from the very nature of sin. A conversion which proceeds from a fervent charity can attain the complete purification of the sinner in such a way that no punishment would remain.83

83 Cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1712-1713; (1563): 1820.
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