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Email Address never made public. Follow Following. And her daughter gave me the same book sometime after. She prayed for comfort in her misery and soon she had a vision. Her dead brother in law appeared and took her on a visit to the Heavenly City of God. This woman was unconscious a matter of days while the vision covers a period of years. It seems like a divine drama given in sketches like an allegory. She must have slept on the trip but awakened in a sheltered nook surrounded by magnificent flowering shrubs and the softest most beautiful grass.
Everything was perfect. Looking ahead she saw a wonderful swirl of grass and flowers with equally wonderful trees whose branches were laden with blossoms and fruits. All were in spotless white with many carrying clusters of beautiful flowers. All she could think was …purity. Instead of sunlight there was a golden, rosy glow everywhere. She would have answered but then, such an overpowering sense of unworthiness poured over her that she dropped her face into her hands, and burst into uncontrollable and very human weeping.
She drew back fearing it was cold but he said not in the least, smiled and said, Come. Just as I am? Just as you are, he said, with a reassuring smile. Encouraged she stepped into the gently flowing river. She found the water in both temperature and density almost identical with the air.
As they prepared to leave the water she thought what would they do for towels in her earthly mind. As they came out of the water there was no need…she was completely dry, as before. She had been given a robe fashioned as she had never seen…soft , light and shone with a faint lustre reminding her of silk crepe.
The water seemed to make it more lustrous than before. He looked at me with earnest, tender eyes as he answered gently. I am a Catholic but have strayed in the past into the non-denominational world.
After a rather tragic life experience many years ago, I continued to believe, thanks to 14 years of Catholic schools, but I lost my trust in God. But I continued to search for answers. Finally with the prayers of many I had a true conversion experience…giving up my will for His. No voices or visions but the scales were removed and I knew that I knew that I knew…in a way I had never known in all my life. I truly felt like St Paul on the rode to Damascus…and there were many litle miracles assuring me I had made the right choice in the next few weeks.
Fortunately or unfortunately this happened through the prayer of friends…some had been formerly Catholic and some never Catholic. The joy I felt and still have, led me to read and study learning so much that all my schooling had never taught. My story is a long one but suffice to say I am back to the Catholic church but having struggles with teachings and disappointment in the Catholics and the priests.
I believe in all the major tenants of the church but several things give me trouble. And surely if they have the opportunity of a death bed time would be praying for forgiveness for their venial sins in Catholic vernacular…and if not, have prayed each day for forgiveness should they be taken suddenly.
Not sure the vs you site are enough for my belief…must a catholic believe that? Whether this vision is truly from God, no one knows but it explains beautifully the grace of God for those who have tried their best to walk with Jesus.
Who am I to say what is truth but when you read the way Jesus conducted His life the three years of His ministry on earth, this seems so much more fitting. Their Bible studies and their youth groups are thriving. It was quite honestly the worst homily I have ever heard on an Easter morning! No wonder we are losing our Catholic young people! I am convinced the majority of Catholics do not know what it is they believe…have not had a re-conversion…have no desire to understand how the Old Testament connects to the new T.
Many I know did not even take the time to watch the recent Bible story on Sunday evenings. I started this search because we had lunch a few days ago with two Catholic friends.. Somehow our conversation arrived at what you must believe to have entrance to heaven.
They both said, a good man, with no belief in God, no faith can go to heaven. I was shocked! I quietly explained we just had Good Friday… what was the purpose? If just believing and Sunday Mass with little knowledge is all that is necessary then they may squeak through the cracks of the Pearly Gates. They are missing so much! I know nothing is too great for God…but He has His work cut out for Him leading all these people to a saving knowledge of Jesus!
Thank you so much for the post. Very beautiful and inspiring. I too feel that scales have been removed. I was so very blind before, when nothing about scripture made sense. And now, after years of prayer, suddenly scripture is different and revealing in such a beautiful way. All thanks and praise be to GOD. You are so full of it. I do not judge your beleif in purgatory, but Jesus came so that through Him, He died for our sins.
When we accept Him as our Lord and Savior, we do not need a go between between us and God. May God bless us all. Thank you, Susan. Purgatory is not a go-between. Salvation is a journey made possible by Christ. If you believe that accepting Jesus Christ cleanses you of all sin and you are assured of your salvation, then Purgatory does not make sense.
However, this belief is not what the Bible teaches nor is it the faith handed down through the centuries from the apostles and Jesus Christ himself. Salvation is a process beginning with the redemption offered by Christ and our free acceptance of his redemption. We might sin, even after accepting his redemption, and thus damage our relationship with God.
Salvation is not assured when you can fall out of favor with God through sin. Thankfully god offers forgiveness for those sins. I respect your thoughts, and faith, but please — show me where the apostles or Jesus taught anything about purgatory.
Jesus, nor his apostoles, ever mentioned purgatory or anything of the sort. Jesus taught that it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. He also taught to identify false prophets, you judge a fig tree by the fruit it bears.
I am NOT a Catholic but I do remember Jesus saying to the thief on the cross… this day you will be in paradise with me. What is the difference between paradise and heaven? If you trust the New Testament is the correct books out of all the other books that could of been chosen, then you accept the authority of the Catholic Church.
In case with Maccabees. Luther removed because of his opinion and pride. Jesus saving blood sacrifice does not open up purgatory. His saving blood sacrifice opens up heaven. Your church has lied to you about purgatory, your church wants you to put all your faith in purgatory so you will continue giving money to your church so your money making papacy can get people out of purgatory.
Jesus is not in purgatory, He is in heaven, paradise and heaven are the same place. You would rather go to purgatory and hopefully get purged there instead of believing in His saving blood sacrifice. Jesus did not open up purgatory on the cross He opened up heaven on the cross. Jesus is in heaven not purgatory. Jesus told the thief on the cross you will be with me in paradise, not in purgatory.
The thief on the cross went to heaven not to purgatory, because purgatory does not exist. Heaven and paradise are the same place. Heaven exists because of Jesus saving blood sacrifice. Purgatory is not paradise, Jesus did not open up purgatory, purgatory does not exist. Jesus is in heaven not in purgatory with the thief, Jesus is not a sinner. The thief is in heaven with Jesus. Your email address will not be published. Sign me up for the newsletter!
It is no wonder, then, that those who deny the existence of purgatory tend to touch upon only briefly the history of the belief. They prefer to claim that the Bible speaks only of heaven and hell. It speaks plainly of a third condition, commonly called the limbo of the Fathers, where the just who had died before the redemption were waiting for heaven to be opened to them.
After his death and before his resurrection, Christ visited those experiencing the limbo of the Fathers and preached to them the good news that heaven would now be opened to them 1 Pet. These people thus were not in heaven, but neither were they experiencing the torments of hell. Some have speculated that the limbo of the Fathers is the same as purgatory. This may or may not be the case.
However, even if the limbo of the Fathers is not purgatory, its existence shows that a temporary, intermediate state is not contrary to Scripture. The Catholic doctrine of purgatory alone explains this passage. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Prayers are not needed by those in heaven, and no one can help those in hell. This verse so clearly illustrates the existence of purgatory that, at the time of the Reformation, Protestants had to cut the books of the Maccabees out of their Bibles in order to avoid accepting the doctrine.
Prayers for the dead and the consequent doctrine of purgatory have been part of the true religion since before the time of Christ. It was not the Catholic Church that added the doctrine of purgatory.
Rather, the Protestant churches rejected a doctrine that had always been believed by Jews and Christians. Why would anyone go to purgatory? He needs to be cleansed completely. It also reveals that Christ has totally redeemed, or purchased back, that which was lost. The advocates of purgatory and the necessity of prayer for the dead say, in effect, that the redemption of Christ was incomplete.
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