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Monsignor (professor) Obiora Francis Ike.
He is a Roman Catholic priest, a scholar and human rights activist.
Professor Obiora is the founder of the Switzerland based Catholic institute for development justice and peace
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WHO IS PUNISHED IN PURGATORY?🔥
Those who are punished for a time in purgatory who die in the state of grace, but are guilty of venial sin, or have not fully satisfied for the temporal punishment due to their sins.
1. Purgatory is a middle state where souls destined for heaven are detained and purified. Souls in purgatory cannot help themselves, for their time for meriting is past. But they can be helped by the faithful on earth, by prayers and other good works.
In some places, at eight o'clock at night, the church bells sound, to admonish the faithful to pray for the souls in purgatory. This hour is in commemoration of Christ's prayer in the garden. We should then kneel and pray one Our Father, One Hail Mary, and Requiem Eternam: "Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them," Amen.
2. Belief in the utility of praying for the dead automatically includes belief in the existence of purgatory. If there were no purgatory, it would be useless to pray for the dead, because saints in heaven need no help, and those in hell are beyond aid.
And we can be sure there will be no more purgatory after the General Judgment, the reason for its existence will have passed.
3. Purgatory is a place of temporal punishment for those who have died in venial sin, or who have not fully satisfied God's justice in mortal sins already forgiven.
a) A boy with a stone deliberately breaks a window pane; this is a venial sin punishable in purgatory. Some argue that God is a good God, and will not punish such sins with the pains of purgatory. We must remember, nevertheless, that the judgment of God is different from those of men, as His holiness is far above human holiness.
"My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways, my ways", saith the Lord. "For as the heavens have exalted above earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts." Let us reverence God's holiness and justice, as we have loving confidence in His mercy.
b) A man commits a cruel murder. This is a mortal sin which, unrepented and unconfessed, will send him to hell.
The man repents. confesses and obtains absolution for his sin; the guilt therefore is removed. But justice requires that he make up for the evil he has done; this atonement takes place in purgatory, unless he makes full satisfaction before death.
4. The doctrine of purgatory is eminently consoling to the human heart. It consoles us when our loved ones die. Purgatory is a bond of union making us realize that death is not an eternal separation for the just, but only a loss of their bodily presence."
Purgatory gives us an assurance that we are still in touch with our beloved dead. We are consoled by the knowledge that we can still help them with prayers, as in life we so helped them.
SOURCE : Read Me Or Rue It... How To Avoid Purgatory