Benedict XVI Describes Purgatory

In this video we share how Benedict XVI Describes Purgatory.

What is Purgatory actually like? Does the image we have made correspond to the truth?

Purgatory is a place of purification where souls prepare themselves to be able to enter Paradise.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains it to us even better: It is the condition of those who, having died in the grace of God, are not yet perfectly purified and must therefore purify themselves in order to obtain the holiness necessary to be admitted to the vision of God.

We could define it as a place of waiting, of true hope, of being able to enjoy, as soon as possible, the Grace of Heaven.

In his encyclical; Spe salvi; Pope Benedict XVI clarified why Purgatory exists and, above all, why it is a place of hope: The pain of love becomes our salvation and our joy; the the judgment of God is hope, both because it is justice and because it is grace; If it were merely justice, it could be the end all of us only fear; he writes.

God is the just Judge, the one who embraces us with his love and knows what we have done and not done in our earthly life.

But we too can help those who are in this place of purification: The souls of the dead, however, can be given 'refreshment and refreshment' through the Eucharist, prayer and almsgiving.

May love reach the hereafter, may mutual giving and receiving be possible; continues Pope Benedict XVI.

In Purgatory there are those who have died in God's grace, but are not completely and pure to go up to Heaven.

But they are still holy souls.

The Church wrote, during the Council of Lyons, in 1274:

If those who sincerely do penance have died in charity before having paid the penalty with worthy fruits of penance as a result of things done or omitted: their souls are purified after death; and to relieve them of such pains the suffrages of the living faithful benefit them, that is to say the sacrifices of the masses, prayers, almsgiving and other exercises of piety which are customary to do, according to the indications of the Church, from the faithful for the benefit of other faithful.

A place of waiting, of hope, of purification and of prayer, waiting for the vision and contemplation of the Heavens.

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[jhonsondesilva]

Lets us all catholics, pray for the holy souls in purgatory.amen

[livingpurgatory]

"Jesus, Mary, I love you save souls!"
Consider the above prayer in your spare moments, it saves a soul & repairs 1000 blasphemies. In your spare moments you can change the eternity of many & mitigate the evil to come. GOD bless!

[paulnguyen]

I don’t think pope Benedict XVI has seen purgatory. He says it according to the doctrine of the Church. The Bible says that God doesn’t listen to the prayer of sinners unless they repent and turn back to Him. The souls in purgatory are sinners. They can not help themselves. They need our help. God doesn’t listen to their prayers. However, they do pray unceasingly. I saw a white marble chair in the midst of them. Now I understand that it was Saint Joseph who sit in the chair. Saint Joseph picks out a few prayers from among them and offers it up to Jesus. Jesus accepts the prayers from Saint Joseph, then, I have a change of heart, a born again Catholic. I have this vision nine years ago.