The truth about PURGATORY!

[@joannebassi4296]

Excellent Podcast! The joy of the brothers makes being a Catholic worth all the sufferings we may be given to endure!! Salve Maria!!

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria, Joanne! Thank you, and be assured of our prayers for you.

[@IsabelRodriguez-nv2ue]

Sale Maria dear Brothers in Christ from Dallas, TX! Thank you very much for sharing so many insights, experiences, teachings on this important theme of PURGATORY and how to live our lives from the standpoint of Eternity! Truly helpful! May OUR LADY bless you all for ever and ever! Amen!

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria, Isabel! You are very welcome. Thank you for your prayers for us, and you can count on our prayers for you also!

[@lillianmarielaruan4629]

Thank you so much for this Brothers. Now I know what to say to people who asks why be a Saint. .. because saints are never unhappy, they are joyful! And also, that three Hail Marys for the souls to wake me up at a certain time in the morning. Thank you for reminding me always to include the Holy souls in all my prayers. May God bless you more, brothers. Salve Maria!

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria, Lillian! You are so very welcome, and we are so happy to have you here with us.

[@gailkoelmeyer7650]

Thankyou Dear Fathers and Brothers of The Heralds of The Gospel..your Teachings are Invaluable, and always simple and uplifting!

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

You are so very welcome, Gail!

[@lovable20051976]

One of the most informative podcasts on purgatory. I pray for the salvation of all the souls on earth and all souls in purgatory every day in my personal rosary. There's a special prayer for all souls that I pray in my morning prayer. We need to cover every soul in our prayers. So important. Salve Maria.

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria! Beautiful!

[@OurLadyFatima402]

Salve Maria🙏🏼Thank you Fr Michael Carlson and Brothers Herald of the Gospel. Today we received the grace of special Ceremony Holy Consecration to Our Lady Mother Mary and I have received this magnificent podcast Purgatory. We pray for the souls in purgatory 🙏🏼🕊💒♥️✝️ May Our Lady Mother most Holy save souls from the Purgatory.🔥📿💒

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria! You are most welcome. Congratulations on your Consecration to Our Lady!

[@bweatherman3345]

Please don't stop this program. I learned so much. Thanks, and may God bless you

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

So happy to have you join us. God bless you.

[@elvirapimentel956]

Thank you Father Michael, and brothers-Heralds of the Gospel for the wonderful sharings... Salve Maria!

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria, Elvira! You are so welcome.

[@mandyphillips7057]

Thank you Fr Michael and Brothers for this podcast 🙏

[@grace5837]

Excellent podcast Thanks dear Heralds you guys are great salve Maria 🎉

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria, Grace! You are so very welcome; thank you for joining us.

[@grace5837]

@HeraldsoftheGospel_official Thanks Fr. It's always a pleasure joining you all

[@nancymorgan8180]

Salva Maria 🌹 Thank you for your interpretation of reasons for purgatory. May you all be blessed. ✨️🕊❤️

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria, Nancy! You are very welcome, and may God bless you too.

[@maclorelei]

Salve Maria! From friends in Canada!🇨🇦⚜️🇨🇦 Thank you!!!

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria, MacDonald family! You are so very welcome, friends!

[@judithlagura6520]

Thank you Fr Michael

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

You are very welcome, Judith.

[@michelemcdermott75]

Outstanding Podcast about Purgatory🙏 Thank You💙🙏

[@marialuisathorn9114]

In a lecture given by a Rabbi to students of the Tora ( I listened it in You Tube out of curiosity) he told them of the 3 important things to know; God is good, God is Omnipotent, and good people suffer, ( more than those no too good)

[@gailkoelmeyer7650]

The simplicity of The Brothers of The Heralds of The Gospel, and the childlike Primacy they give to The Only True Life of their souls, through The innumerable Graces of Our Lord from His One True Church on earth, gives the listener, a window into the Truth that the foibles of satan has stifled and almost obliterated from the hearts of people.

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Well said, Gail!

[@LilRod-kt9iz]

It's a pleasure to watch you. Praise God.

[@Stophimgoat]

Thank you so much, brothers in Christ, for sharing this podcast .

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

You are most welcome.

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

This 14th century song Lyke Wyke Dirge is about the soul going to Purgatory. Here is one part: Give a bit of information, I think. From Brig o' Dread when thou may'st pass Every nighte and alle To Purgatory fire thou com'st at last And Christe receive thy saule If ever thou gavest meat or drink Every nighte and alle The fire sall never make thee shrink And Christe receive thy saule If meat or drink thou ne'er gav'st nane Every nighte and alle The fire will burn thee to the bare bane And Christe receive thy saule.....

[@juliekeane7396]

Excellent!

[@elsamatiwas6731]

Thank you my father’s i l learne a lot God bless you.thank you Jesus Christ I trust in you

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

You are so welcome!

[@KolokaiKalai]

Thankyou so much for the Podcast on PURGATORY...

[@Freedomtoascend]

Are you Canadians? That is great! Could you tell where do you live?

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Hello! Yes, Brother Morgan is a Canadian living in Brazil, the home of the Heralds of the Gospel. We are found throughout the world, including in Canada. You can learn more about us here: reconquest.heralds.org/ heralds.ca/category/who-are-we/

[@PlinioBosco]

@@HeraldsoftheGospel_official Br. Vincent and his family is from Canada as well...

[@lloydrich522]

Excellent show guys thank you for the discussion🙏😊

[@rosenelikachhap2329]

Salve Mariya🌷

[@TerenceGurung]

Aman 🙏

[@gailkoelmeyer7650]

Yes, it is so true..that every single thought, word, desire and deed of every individual on earth, is either For God or ..or For self, the flesh, the world and the seductions of the Devil..We Are Really in Spiritual Warfare.. God or the devil ..we are the ones who CHOOSE.. in every moment...but because of our Free Will,God, Who Created us, Without our help,...Cannot Save us Without our help!

[@agnesmarybendu7470]

Fr. Is it true that one’s sins are forgiven after one dies? Thanks and blessings🌹🙏

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Hello Agnes. Agnes, we can only work toward our salvation while we are alive. This is why it is so important to repent of our sins, to go to confession to a priest and confess all sins. However, though we are forgiven, there are times when we have not fully atoned for our sins or are not perfectly purified in order to enter into Heaven. This is the reason for Purgatory: for those who are forgiven and who will enter into Heaven eventually but who are not completely purified and must spend time in this place of purification before entering into the perfection of Heaven.

[@rosemariezuleta]

I love you ALL!

[@LucMusicMan-ij3ck]

It's my Guardian Angel, who awakes me, when i pray for to wake me.

[@katperson7332]

If we don’t have our bodies any more and just our souls go to Purgatory, do the hot flames burn our souls instead? It’s hard to imagine what that would look like. In some paintings of Purgatory we often see the anguished faces and arms of people reaching up towards Heaven, but does that mean that our bodies are reunited with our souls at that point?

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Hello! This is an excellent question. The Church has never pronounced on this question. The only dogmatic pronouncement of the Church is that there is an intermediate state of purification after death before being admitted to the Beatific Vision of God. Is this really a place and is there a real fire? We know that all things are possible for God. In hell, there is a fire that makes the soul suffer though the soul is a spirit. Is there something similar in Purgatory? We do not really know. Our bodies are not reunited with our souls for us to expiate in Purgatory (or to suffer in hell or to rejoice in Heaven). This will only happen after the Second Coming of Christ at the Last Judgment. Then we will all be resurrected and our bodies and souls will receive reward or punishment for all eternity. There will be no more Purgatory after that. I think one of the most beautiful and clarifying descriptions of Purgatory is that of St. Catherine of Genoa. This mystic of the Sixteenth Century received revelations that actually enriched the Church's understanding of Purgatory. The case is unique in Church history. We believe that God gave her this singular grace to repair the evil that was done in the same century by Protestantism that arbitrarily denied the existence of Purgatory against the teaching of Scripture, tradition and the Magisterium of the Church. There's a little book on Purgatory with her visions and I really recommend it. It is truly unbelievable. To get started, try reading this excellent little summary by Fr. Faber: www.ecatholic2000.com/cts/untitled-359.shtml

[@katperson7332]

@@HeraldsoftheGospel_official Thank you so much. I’m definitely going to read that. I also read that St Faustina had a vision of Purgatory where she described seeing ‘A great crowd of suffering souls’, so it seems that no earthly bodies are there, just souls. The souls are said to be joyful at being purged of their sins, even though they are also suffering pain. God bless you and best wishes from an old lady in Scotland!

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Our pleasure. Please pray for us. ia601309.us.archive.org/7/items/TheTreatiseOnPurgatory/TheTreatiseOnPurgatory.pdf

[@katperson7332]

@@HeraldsoftheGospel_official Thanks again-I’ve saved both the items and look forward to reading them . Meanwhile since it is the feast today of Our Lady of Mount Carmel then I shall include you in my novena to her. 🙏🏻

[@silvanadibiase1947]

Please pray for me I need a miracle healing mind and body me thank 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Dear Silvan, you can count on our prayers for you.

[@agnesmarybendu7470]

Fr. Should each humans expect to go to heaven? Thanks Blessings 🌹🙏

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Hello dear Agnes. Agnes, we should all have Heaven as our goal! To go to Heaven, we must be free of sin, and in a state of grace. This means that we must work to not commit sins, and that we must confess our sins when we do commit them, and to be sorrowful for them and to vow not to commit them again. It is a spiritual battle to remain sinless, but that is the most precious gift of Confession: to receive the Absolution of the priest, to have our sins forgiven and to receive the grace to help us in our battle against sin!

[@agnesmarybendu7470]

Salve Maria🌹🌹

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria, Agnes!

[@emiliakatz]

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[@emmahope6370]

Pope Benedict, (God rest his soul) wrote, that Purgatory is a process to purify the soul.Purgatory is outside of time, therefore, how is it possible to count the days a soul spends in purgatory?

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

This is a very good question. Time is something very difficult for us to comprehend. St. Augustine said that if you asked him if he knew what time is, he would say yes, but if he was asked to explain it, he wouldn't be able to. I think the concept of eternity is even more confusing. Basically, Catholic philosophers say that the eternity of God is not a question of extension infinitely in time. He just is, without any possibility of change. So He transcends time and He created time. Before, after, forever, now: these are all time-related terms that we are obliged to use. What about the eternity of the angels and souls after death? It is true that they are not subject to time as we understand it, which is a measure of material change. However, they are also capable of change. That is why Catholic philosophers invent the very complicated notion of aeviternity to explain time outside time. As for Purgatory, when we speak of days, it is our way of understanding it. In fact, there have been visions of souls who passed years in purgatory but it was only a day on earth. (There's the interesting story of Frei Natale, a friend of Padre Pio who was sentenced to three hours in Purgatory, but felt he suffered for three hundred years.) This is because our cosmic time is different from aeviternity. That's the best I can do. This is indeed a mystery... www.miraculum.com.br/t-en/nossa-senhora/frei-daniele-natale-recebe-condena%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-3-horas-no-purgat%C3%B3rio-pareceram-300-anos-nossa-senhora-e-padre-pio-intercedem-por-sua-volta-a-terra www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.FP_Q10_A5.html

[@emmahope6370]

I will pray to Tommaso D'Aquino....to be able to understand.Thank you!

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Pray for me as well!

[@bluebear107]

I have suffered so much…..it spilled over into mental illness.

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

We are praying for you, dear soul.

[@bluebear107]

@@HeraldsoftheGospel_official Thank you, so much, I pray Psalm 142:8 several times a day, Lord, lead my soul from prison.

[@gailkoelmeyer7650]

Yes, the Blue print in each soul, is For God,, Who Is Our Only Delight.We Were Created By God..For Happiness..He Alone IS IT! Our hearts were Made for Thee Alone, my God..and will Not Rest..till they Rest In Thee.. O BEAUTY , EVER OLD AND ALWAYS NEW...Too little have i known Thee, too late have i loved Thee, O my God!

[@silvanadibiase1947]

Please pray for me I need a miracle healing mind and body Thank you🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

You can be assured of our prayers for you!

[@JenniferMcKeough]

Salve Maria

[@HeraldsoftheGospel_official]

Salve Maria, Jennifer!

[@mdnahidseo]

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[@gailkoelmeyer7650]

The Doctrine of Purgatory is an absolutely Infallible Teaching of The Church!..we reject IT, at our own eternal risk!

[@larrybedouin2921]

The truth is that it is a falsehood and a fable of wicked men.

[@gailkoelmeyer7650]

Is it so, dear Brothers, that The Fire Is The Same...but In Heaven It Is The Fire of The Supreme Love of God; But The Same Fire Is Purifying for those who Love God but still need Purgation; and That Same Fire is but Justice, for the souls in Hell, as they reject God...and is their eternal regret.

[@AndronikosNikephoros]

in the Orthodox Church we pray for the death´s but we do not call any place a "purgatory" we do not believe in Saints as Prophets we believe in Saints as people with exemplary and miraculous lives

[@Freedomtoascend]

I do not believe on the purgatory. I actually think there are many heavens and many lives we go thru up and and down until we get to the higher Heavens as we get better purifying our souls.

[@dpro5500]

Dear Freedomtoascend, there is one heaven. God created « many mansions » in heaven’ but we can not enter any of the mansions of heaven unless we are in a state of grace. Once we die, we can do nothing to purify our souls; only God in His mercy, can place our soul in purgatory to cleanse it so that it can ascend to heaven🙌🏻