A Reflection on Purgatory 

I read that book several years ago, Scarecrow. I was thinking about re-reading it, if I still have my copy.

Purgatory made sense to me. Also the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

If you don’t renounce this pagan religion you’ll lift up your eyes in Hell! Purgatory does not exist!

Fr wade Menezes

There is NO SUCH PLACE AS purgatory! It is a lie of the Catholic cult! If you die unsaved you go directly to hell ! If there were such a place as purgatory then everyone would get saved. No one would be going to hell ! Think about what they are teaching you! It's all lies !! Jesus said, today is the day of salvation because you don't have the promise of tomorrow.

The Holy Spirit would not show you purgatory because it doesn't exist ! That was Satan in disguise ! Jesus said."Beware ! Satan can appear as an angel of light"!

1 Corinthians 6:9-13 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. So if Christ has done all this why do you think that you need further cleansing? Christ has done EVERYTHING to get you into heaven if you choose to believe in His finished work.

@@donnabernick6467 I was about to correct him but I saw your comment thatx

You Catholics are crazy ! None of. what you say is scriptural Stop believing the lies of the Catholic cult !

donna bernick .... how horrible.... but some how you must have listen to something . ..... but God forgives all

No it isn’t

If you want a proof of Purgatory - read about the Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory in Rome ( Italy, Europe ) or watch about it on RU-vid.

Accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior. and being. washed in His blood is the only way to Heaven.There is no purgatory !

Catholics are misled and purgatory is not scriptural

Ahh, Protestantism! Just believe in Jesus, sin with impunity, and still go to Heaven! "If you sin, sin boldly, but believe more boldly still." --Martin Luther

Believe you have to read that verse in context of Ecclesiastes 9:4-6-the dead have not any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun (or on earth). Ecclesiastes is known as a pessimistic outlook on life.

Stop with the Hail Mary's.! There is no such thing in the Bible.Hail Mary, was a message the angel gave to Mary from God to explain to her that she would get pregnant by the Holy Spirit placing Jesus in her womb.Mary is not part of the Hothead ! She is not deity ! We are not to pray to her or any saints as the catholic church teaches.They are sending people to hell by the millions by their wrong teaching !.Stop believing these lies.Get out of the Catholic cult.!

@@donnabernick6467 the whole Hail Mary prayer is completely scriptural, taken from from the Gospel of St Luke. Please correct your misconceptions of the Catholic church, outside which no one is saved. We DO NOT worship her but give Mary honour as the immaculate mother of Christ. You Protestants ask your friends to pray for you, in the same way, we ask Mary and the saints. Please....the full canonical bible wasn't compiled until the 4th century AD. Perhaps the early Christians were misled because they had to rely on Sacred Tradition?

@@karynyzelman1176 the whole Hail Mary prayer is completely scriptural, taken from from the Gospel of St Luke Well not really all scriptural is it ? Hail Mary, full of grace. Our Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. This part is scriptural Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, Try to find this nonsense in any book of the bible? now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Sounds good and pious but has absolutely no basis in scripture.

donna bernick Get out from Protestants cult!

Never works either. 😂😂

Purgatory is a lie of the Catholic cult

@Peter Cho What utter nonsense when you ignore what Jesus has done for you on the cross to save you from ALL of your sin. 1 John 2:2 and what is this nonsense of needing to clean up your life when Christ has already made you cleaner than snow 1 Corinthians 6:9-13 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. key word here is WERE as in it has been done already. This clearly shows purgatory to be a lie .

@Peter Cho( All paths lead to God the Creator of mankind. The followers of God interpret the Teachings in different ways that lead to confusion. Once confusion sets in you can be sure that the only way is to simplify your beliefs. Simply believe in and honor your Creator.) John 14:6 tells me that all paths do not lead to God and that the rest of your paragraph is false as well. Yes it does sound pious and spiritual , but anytime you have anything false put into any prophecy then you need to chuck the whole prophecy out. 1 Cor 6:11 tells me that I am washed already , I am justified already, and I am sanctified already, and there is absolutely no need for me to go anywhere for any length of time to clean up my soul, when The Lord tells me He has done it already. Purgatory is a lie of Satan and the RCC has promoted it , rather than removing it as they should have.

@Peter Cho "These nations will consist of some nations in the world who have shown allegiance to Me, God the Father, My Son Jesus Christ and the Mother of God, Queen of Heaven." As soon as I saw this , I realized you are listening to Satan masquerading as an angel of light. Your reference to Mary the queen of heaven is heretical nonsense. You obviously do not question everything as the bible tells you in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 but test everything; hold fast what is good. and by example Acts 17: 11 Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true. You just blindly accept this pious nonsense as if God is speaking when in reality He is not. Your reference to Rev 12 is not talking about Mary it is talking metaphorically about Israel. =--= His Blessed Mother, the Mother of Salvation, was crowned Queen of Heaven and will also reign as Queen of the New Paradise. Her Coronation in Heaven was a very special Divine Manifestation of her role in the future of the salvation of the world. She was crowned in great honour and splendour for the role she played, not only as the Mother of God and as spouse of the Holy Spirit, but as the Mother of Salvation given the power to destroy Satan. Absolute trash without any back up in any scripture whatsoever. You should be ashamed of yourself for not having any gumption to check out the scriptures to any of these silly claims . This is satanic nonsense to lead people away from the Only savior Jesus Christ. John 14:6 does this verse say Mary has anything to do with salvation? Queen of Heaven was a title given to a number of ancient sky goddesses worshipped throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Near East during ancient times. Goddesses known to have been referred to by the title include Inanna, Anat, Isis, Astarte, and possibly Asherah (by the prophet Jeremiah).

Thank you Fr for showing me the way

I pray this prayer of St. Gertrude every day ! Thanks for sharing it for all to read !

Pope Leo XIII warned us that there is no such prayer that is guaranteed to deliver a fixed number of souls from Purgatory. Also, the so-called Prayer of St. Gertrude was not found among her writings. But that does not mean that this prayer is ineffectual. It actually is a very good prayer. But don't expect an automatic 1000 souls being delivered every time you say it.

@@georgepenton808 we will wait to see, then, when we die. Just to help one soul be released from purgatory will help us greatly at our last breath !

@@edwalter6453 There is no purgatory , that is an invention of the RCC and you should;d question it. When and why it was introduced as it was not in the new or old testaments at all, not even a hint. When you read 1 Corinthians 6:9-13 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Just what makes you think that the author and finisher of your faith Jesus Christ our Lord has somehow not done enough to clean up your life?

@@bobloblawb2593 OK Bob, than it's Heaven or hell, believe what you want, I hope to be refined by that cleansing pain of purgatory, for nothing unclean can enter eternal life.

The rosary is not scriptural.It's just another lie of the Catholic church..

@Peter Cho The only ignorant one here is you

Satan is not afraid of your beads.They have. no Power

The Lord knows you are satan

donna bernick Satan hates Mary Just like you hate us I hope Mary whip the satan out of your head!

If people go to purgatory will they go before or after judgment day

​@@Pro1938ftc3ch There are two Judgements in afterlife. The first Judgement after death is known as the particular judgment. The Epistle to the Hebrews says (9:27): " It is appointed to men to die once, and after that comes the judgment". Then, "Each one will receive his pay, according to his works" (1 Cor 3:8).After this judgement soul goes to Heaven, to Purgatory or to Hell. The second Judgement is called The Finał Judgement.

I think fr wade menedes. Not sure

Religious art is a help to raising the mind and heart to God. No Catholic l know adores a statue, which is only stone or plaster. The artistic representations are a method for focusing on the Divine. Two angels decorated the ark of the Covenant. The Jews knew the difference between idolatry and religious art. My own particular favorite is stained glass window. Kisses for statues, bowing in front of pictures etc are really showing love and adoration for God. The objects remind us of the gifts of God. Thank you for your concern but you really are mistaken if you think Catholics or Orthodox adore church art. Blessings

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Now you listen to me very carefully. We Catholics do not pray to statues or to any idols. The figures are symbols only of a given person and are treated as such. Mary is the Mother of God-Jesus Christ and is the only human being without original sin. Jesus, hanging on the cross, said to Saint. John: "Behold your mother." Mary is the Mother of all people, including yours. I know that for you the only mediator between God and people is Jesus Christ, but Jesus Christ has His Mother, whose prayers He listens to. We do not honor saints, we only pray through their intercession. The Protestant Bible is different than the Catholic one, so don't compare it with the Catholic one! As for waking up in hell... If someday, in the future, death knocks on your door, you will see that it was not you who were right, but Catholics and the Catholic Church !

​@@larryluch8178Yes. You are totally right.