[MHGinTN]

Indeed, thanks be to God. The sad part is the unrealized Grace of being Born from Above to live a life Justified and being sanctified. To have to re-up ‘salvation’ through rituals and bead reading and purgatory suffering, well, that is a different gospel all together. O ran across an astonishing blasphemy in the Catechsm of the RCC recently, where it is instructed that faithful catholics can literally pray and work others out of purgatory! Padre Pio is said to have had a vision beside his window of persons leaving purgatory because of his suffering for them!

[Mark17]

O ran across an astonishing blasphemy in the Catechsm of the RCC recently, where it is instructed that faithful catholics can literally pray and work others out of purgatory!

We were told that by going to mass for 9 first Fridays, or 5 first Saturdays, we could get a soul out of purgatory and into Heaven. I felt rather proud of myself. Here was a conundrum for me, however. I always felt like I was a lost sinner, on my way to Hell. Newsflash: that is exact where I was headed, so I felt a little jealous, and less than enthusiastic, that I was getting someone else out of purgatory, but I was going to Hell. What kind of a bummer deal was that, I wondered? 😂 Now that the scales of spiritual blindness have been removed from my eyes, I see things differently. I know you can relate. Maranatha bro. 😇