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Kenosis 7- Are there six degrees of purgatory? essential
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Are there six degrees from purgatory? So be careful what I say here is a reconstruction. In fact, in Scripture, there are far fewer details than I will give. Of course, purgatory is clearly announced. We see him in exercise with poor Lazarus and the rich man who obviously is not in Hell but who calls for salvation as Benedict XVI indicates in his encyclical spe salvi at number 44. Why can the Catholic Church, through its theologians, obviously not necessarily speak out in dogma, give so many details about purgatory? Because it is not based only on Scripture alone but because the Holy Spirit has been coming and in Saints throughout history for 2000 years to give details that Jesus had told. So, concretely speaking, we can say that the path we are taking is leading to Heaven with a beatific vision and generally resembles what Jacob saw in his dream: a scale whose summit is in Heaven and I would say the feet are on Earth. Well, this scale has six degrees, you can tell by reconstructing them. Six degrees, which are sometimes places and sometimes states of the soul, it depends. First degree, well precisely it is this Earth, first purgatory, with this characteristic, Heaven for 60-80 years is hidden globally, does not appear in any case visibly except in exceptional cases, but allows some to know what is on the other side through the revelation of Christ and others simply to hope for it. The characteristic of the Earth is that God, by leaving us to our own impulses, by letting us do part of it, well teaches us a little humility and a little love sometimes it is difficult to come out of it with much pride. The second stage, which is this time described by Saint Bernard de Clairvaux, is the passage of death where people can stay for a certain time and I would normally say that it is in this passage of death which is death itself that we also call Hades, the hell, that Christ appears in his glory, accompanied by the saints and angels. This is the third heaven described by Saint Paul on his way to Damascus, the third purgatory, he was shocked and as Pope Benedict XVI says in spe salvi 47, the soul sees its own sin, its own filth. It is a real despair except that Christ makes himself his lawyer to relieve her, offers her salvation. Obviously, for souls who choose to love Christ, well, the journey of purification is not over. Certainly, they love him with all their heart or they hated him with all their heart, that's something else, it's the way to Hell, the solitary freedom of selfish people. If she loves him with all her heart and that soul is not, I would say through her earthly experiences, already become very humble, then her reaction consists in saying to God I will become worthy of you, and that is where the purgatories that follow this individual judgment come in. These souls are sure to be saved but they will complete their purification in three other purgatories or rather three inner steps in the same place, so after death, after the last judgment. And it is these three purgatories that this little playlist will now deal with. Globally for Saint Thomas Aquinas it begins with joy, the joy of being saved, it continues in the pain of waiting, the expectation that Christ will return and the loneliness of this purgatory, and it ends in peace, the certainty that one day he will come. So these are three inner degrees from which we owe the most beautiful description to Saint Catherine of Genoa.
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