Reading through “The Imitation of Christ” again, this time through Ascension Press with Fr. Mike Schmitz, I came across this quote:
“It is better now to purge away our sins and to cut off our vices than to reserve them to be purged hereafter.”
Wow!
Our station in death, for the sake of our purification before we reach heaven, is identified as purgatory. In order to move beyond purgatory, we rely on those who are still living to pray for us.
Who will pray for me, after I die?
If you don't believe in purgatory, check out this quote from the St. Paul Center:
"Since the Bible assures us that nothing unclean shall enter heaven (see Rev 21:27; cf. Heb 12:14), this implies that souls who die in a state of imperfect friendship with God must undergo some kind of final purification prior to their entry into eternal life. This fits with what Sacred Scripture teaches more generally about how God acts as a “refiner’s fire” (Mal 3:2) who disciplines His children in order to purify them of their unhealthy attachments to sin (see Wis 3:1-9; Heb 12:5-6, 10-11). But even so, if Catholics are right about purgatory, then we would expect there to be some passages in the Bible which point to its existence." Clement Harrold
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