Puragtion

Just like an illness sometimes needs to be purged from a body to make it healthy, so a soul needs to be purged of sin.  Often bodily suffering stops and one feels better when an illness is removed.  So it is with our souls. 


Purgatory is a gift from God that facilitates healing.  The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

All who die in God’s grace, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven (1030).

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