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To: Boogieman; piperpilot
Actually, Boogieman, Catholics pray for everyone (Link), good and bad, believers and unbelievers, living and dead. Even the dead-and-probably-damned, like the dead bomber.

We know he was a hell-bent personality who did damnable things, but we do not know if he repented in the end.

As you know, St. Peter tells us in the Bible that a day is like 1,000 years to the Lord,and 1,000 years like a day. If that is so, then God could have stretched Tsarnaev's last nanosecond out into a month or so in God-time, when he could have repented of his sins.

We simply don't know. Haven't got a clue. Only God is the Master of Time and Space, and only Jesus Christ is the Judge of the living and the dead.

On the day that died Pope innocent III (who was evidently not very innocent) appeared to Saint Lutgarda in flames and told her that he was expiating three crimes that he had to make atonement for. He begged her and her fellow nuns for prayers, because otherwise, he said, he would have to stay in purgatory until the end of time.

I know some Episcopalians believe in the Biblical purgatory, and some don't. (I do know the Episcopalian Church observes All Souls Day, which is an official "Holy Day" to pray for the dead.) In any case, if Tsarnaev did manage, like the criminal crucified next to Jesus, to repent at the end, I imagine he might get a punishment just like Pope Guilty. Not damned, you understand, but still requiring -- considerable -- purification.

May the Lord, Who knows all things and can do all things according to His will, have mercy on Tsarnaev, on us, and on the whole world.

59 posted on 04/22/2013 10:25:30 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Ego sum Via, Veritas et Vita. - Jesus Christ)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“If that is so, then God could have stretched Tsarnaev’s last nanosecond out into a month or so in God-time, when he could have repented of his sins.”

If you really believe that God might do that for this avowed antichrist, then He, being just, would have to do it for all of us, which kind of makes it pointless to worry about repenting NOW, which is always God’s message to us. We are told to repent now, because we never know the hour of our death, and when it comes, it will be too late. So, no, there are no “do overs” for Tsarnaev, or anyone else.


64 posted on 04/22/2013 11:29:24 AM PDT by Boogieman
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