Can We Pray For Someone's Salvation After They Die? 

Glad I could help. Thank you very much

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read more my friend.

First time seeing RCIA. Something that I was wondering about. Baptized at birth in 1950, never went through any formal confirmation. Seems ironic that I went to Catholic elementary school (4th to 8th grade) and one year at a Catholic high school) but never remember getting confirmation in the curriculum.

​​@@mjl.9-19 Please inquire about a Confirmation program. It's absolutely critical, not optional. You are not a warrior for the faith until you have been Confirmed, and it is said that no one who is not Confirmed will be able to withstand the trials of the end times, hold out against the Antichrist, and maintain the faith. Plus, it's just flagrantly nuts not to want to receive as many sacraments as one can and the special graces with each one.

Yes, Saint Pio said also to a person who was telling him that the people h ewas praying for were long time dead : "God's time is always present unlike humans". God bless you.

Thank you very much

First time seeing that phrase "... I am a ... revert" although it makes perfect sense. I'm 73, started saying I am re-converted after many decades of wandering (baptized at birth) from the Church. I too was struck deeply by this episode.

Pray for him my brother. Once Saint Pio was found praying for his great grandfather to be saved. When someone told him that his great granfather was long time gone he replied : He maybe long time dead for us but God's time is always present, not present, past or future like humans.

@@alessandrom7181 Amen. It’s my only hope. That maybe the love I felt for him softens the blow of what he did to himself. I can’t do anything to save his life, but I can spend the rest of my days pleading the case for his soul with the Lord and God willing I will. May the Lord have mercy on us all.

Never saw that, wow 🙏

Yes I am Catholic, thank you very much

The Protestants’ problem is that their reformers excised 2 Maccabees from their Bible, along with up to nine other Books. They got rid of the proof text for both Purgatory and the efficacy of post-mortem prayers for the salvation of the deceased.

If I had known that about Padre Pio I would have included it.

You're thinking of Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres (she's incorrupt) All you Holy Angels and saints, pray for us.

@@imisschristendom5293 you can remember it, and look it up for another vid. God bless you for doing this vid. Don't forget about the green scapular also. I put them on friends. Not particularly religious but, one got last rites twice at the end.

@@Nicole-uq2ul yep‼️ that's the one. She experienced hell for 5 years to save her soul.

@@imisschristendom5293 Yeah my brother, he also replied something like " God's time is always present". That's why for him you could pray even for people dead long time before.

Certainly, Padre Pio believes all the Catholic Church believes and teaches

Thanks. I think.

@@imisschristendom5293 I erroneously thought, when I saw the title, that you were going to give some time travel, changing the past, sort of thing. You did not do that. You were as solid as ever, but I can delete or amend my previous post, if my approbation is unclear. Goodness knows, we need to be clear when writing.

Your fine. I was just kidding you

Church Fathers say Purgatory is the upper level of hell.

That, actually, would not be a bad. Because one thing Ive noticed more lately is the bad and ugly post vatican 2 art

And architecture pre V2 church’s no matter the size are just beautiful after v2 lots of brick and brown with little to no statues of Saints or paintings or stained glass it’s really sad

Yes there are. But Tertulian is considered an early church father, at least in his pre heterodox writings

Anytime I bring up this topic they slander and spit on Christ with the most horrendous words you can imagine. I love my parents very much. But I can’t seem to get much help from any one in the church.

Well, the Jews were the chosen people but they rejected christ and they were cut off and we were grafted in. Thats what the bible says. No Jews do not get a pass because theyre jews. My advice is pray and offer sacrifices for their conversion. Also, consider hiding a couple of green scapulars in their house and say the prayer for them every day. In the end trust in God.

Saint Paul said, do not feel superior to the Jews, they were Gods first born and he did not reject them, they rejected him and he never changes his mind. God has a plan for them in the future, they will return. We pray for our families and show Jesus is the one by our lives. A prayer that never ceases, even when there seems there's no hope will not be ignored. Better a good Jew than a cold self righteous christian

Take comfort in the words of Our Lord to St. Faustina about the “three calls”. If your parents never come around during their lifetimes, there will still be an opportunity for them to respond to God’s Grace, which they should readily recognize since they were once Catholic. My father died yesterday, several states away. A long-lapsed Catholic, he had become involved in the church of his Protestant wife. In recent years, he developed a nostalgic longing for Catholic traditions and music of the Latin Mass, started visiting a Catholic Church and took Communion an unknown number of times. It has probably been 60 years since he had been to Confession, though, and I was deeply concerned for his soul. His Protestant wife, a disbeliever in Purgatory, did not see the need for Last Rites, but she finally relented, and a priest got to him just a few hours before my dad passed. Since I do not know whether or not the Apostolic Pardon I’d requested was prayed over him, I am having a series of Gregorian Masses said for him. So, there are various prayers and devotions from which a deceased person can benefit, and God is not limited by time or space. If the deceased person is already in Heaven, Masses and other offerings can raise them up further (or so I’ve been given to understand), and they can be transferred to other, needy souls.

For example, we pray for the spiritually dead, but we cannot save one hair on any of their heads. Only the lord can. So too, with those who are physically dead. We cannot save, one drop of sweat on those who are dead, but the Lord can, if they did not reject his name in life. Instead, pray for the living.

Paul is clearly refering to a christian practice which he does not condemn. We know this because the early church fathers say that the baptism of the dead was a practice of extreme penance for the souls in what is now called Purgatory. You can study the bible and let history and tradition tell you what it means and come to the truth, or, you can listen to your Protestant pastor explain the obvious away to protect their erroneous doctrines

@@imisschristendom5293 if there is no afterlife with souls therein, why do people seek ways to speak to those who have passed via mediums and others? Does this prove the validity of mediums to you? Or if there are no miracles, why do people pay attention to so called miracle workers? Does this prove the validity of all who claim to be miracle workers? If tongues have ceased, what about the likes of William Seymour? Does this credit William Seymour to you? But I do say, there are miracles, an afterlife, and tongues have not ceased. Paul says that the practice is practically useless, instead of useless idea-wise, to prove that the resurrection exists. That is my point. I do agree with you that he does not condemn it. But he doesn’t advocate for it either. And is a practice like praying for someone’s salvation, that God has already determined to go to hell for example.

@@imisschristendom5293 thanks for replying btw. It does mean a lot

This actuly shows that Scripture alone can not be the sole rule of faith, you and I look at that verse and see 2 different statements. Either you are correct or I am. We both cant be. But jesus set up an authority that the holy spirit guides called the magisterium. And they have spoken on this subject

Luther disagreed with praying for the dead and he was a priest and that coursed the first split with the church. He was right about not leading a sinful life and leaving money for Masses to be said so they'd be forgiven. You can not buy a place in heaven. You do not destroy the unity of the global church because you've got a beef with some lax priests, or the Jews would not have lasted long enough to get to Jesus time.

​@maureen348 he didn't have a real issue with it. It's the game the church made out of it. Money 💰🤑

Ok, you either didnt watch the whole video, or are not getting the concept. Plz rewatch the video

@@imisschristendom5293 I did and I think I am confused about something. I have watched about 3 times. Good editing by the way.

We can´t know, if it is truely mortal sin. Only God knows the hearts. A friend of mine commited suicide. I will pray for him. I think it was illness. We can´t know, but I trust in the mercy of God.

No his children all died

@@imisschristendom5293 after that verse. Not beforehand. He makes purification offerings when they are still alive.

As I said in the video. But in that moment right before death God can do anything

@imisschristendom5293 thanks for replying but I would need to see the church dogma on this topic.

This is circular reasoning. Paul clearly petitions God on behalf of onesiphorus who is dead.

@@imisschristendom5293 yes, I agree. But this prayer is like praying over someone you have no authority of. For instance, Jesus in the latter chapters of John, prays for all who are his. But he excludes Judas, because he is not his. There are many people who are yet be revealed like Judas. Feel free to pray for them, but you would be shooting in the dark. A mother today can have seven children, pray for all of them, and yet only one is saved.

Purgatory is biblical…also did you not watch the video? God isn’t limited to time, hence why you should pray for the dead

Yes, i cover this in the video

Indulgences are awesome!! Some modern people indulge in sweets & video games, but Christians get to indulge in God's sweet mercy, His everlasting love. Indulgences are prayers, alms, love... the byproduct is while you're encouraged to pray to indulge in God's mercy for other people's debts or your own, you too are sanctified.

@contemplatingchrist Sounds more like Simony to me. Pay money to release your tormented relative from purgatory even though I as the pope can do it without needing your indulgences or should I say extortions. Luckily, Purgatory is a heresy that spawned out of the Middle Ages and what John Chrysostom mentions in praying for the dead has nothing to do with residual punishment for sins that are already forgiven.

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