Catholicism and Catholic Mass For Dummies, Two eBook Bundle by Rev. John Trigilio Jr
Author:Rev. John Trigilio, Jr.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
Upholding both mercy and justice
The real doctrine of purgatory consists of the conviction that Godâs mercy and justice must be kept intact and upheld. Godâs divine mercy refers to the fact that He forgives any sin as long as the sinner is truly repentant and sorry. Godâs justice, however, is that good is rewarded and evil punished. Catholics believe that purgatory evens the score and fulfills justice while accommodating mercy. They believe that purgatory isnât a place but a spiritual state of the soul in which itâs purified before entering heaven. The souls in purgatory are definitely and absolutely going to heaven, just not yet.
Think of it this way: Joe and Max were both born on the same day and both died on the same day. Joe was a gambler, boozer, and womanizer, and he was dishonest, lazy, and undependable. Max, on the other hand, spent his life obeying the Ten Commandments, practicing virtue, and loving God and neighbor. Just before dying, Joe repented of his old ways and accepted the Lord into his heart. Should Joe and Max both go to heaven at the same time? Catholicism teaches no. The Church believes that Jesusâs death allows everyone the possibility of heaven, and His mercy grants forgiveness, but His justice demands that good be rewarded and evil punished â in this life or the next. If one man struggles all his life to be good while another lives a life of selfishness, greed, and comfort, both canât walk through the pearly gates side by side.
Preparing the soul for heaven
Purgatory is more than the temporal punishment for sin. Itâs also the cleansing from the attachment to sin. Purgatory purifies the soul before the soulâs grand entrance into heaven.
It may help to think of purgatory in terms of a major operation to save a life. Say a doctor performs surgery on someoneâs heart or brain and removes a cancerous tumor. The surgery achieves the main objective, but the wound needs to heal, and the incision needs to be cleaned and rebandaged. Purgatory is like the recovery stage â the healing, cleaning, and bandaging. The belief is that the evil of sin is revealed to the person so she can totally reject even the most venial and smallest of sins.
Often, after committing sin, people later regret it and are remorseful. Catholics confess their sins and believe that God forgives them in the Sacrament of Penance. However, many times people still have pleasant memories of those sins. Theyâre sorry and regret doing them, but they have some enjoyable and pleasurable memories â some leftover attachment to the sins. Catholicism teaches that the souls in purgatory want to be in purgatory because they know that they have some leftover attachment to sin that they want to be removed.
Getting a close-up view of sin
You can think of purgatory like a spiritual electron microscope that shows all that nasty sin â mortal and venial â and reveals how dangerous and harmful any sin is to the soul.
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