How long do you think you'll spend in purgatory

[Resurrexi]

How long do you think you'll spend in purgatory if you make it there?

[Mercy me]

I don't know how long I will spend there. But I can tell you that if I do get there I will be the happiest one in purgatory!!!

[morostheos]

ummm....you forgot the options "as long as God says I need to be there" or "our concept of time doesn't really apply to purgatory, so who knows?"

[ardillacid]

End of time

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='morostheos' date='Apr 4 2006, 10:26 PM']ummm....you forgot the options "as long as God says I need to be there" or "our concept of time doesn't really apply to purgatory, so who knows?"
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[Brother Adam]

I don't think we can even possibly imagine reality outside of the confines of time...

Choose to be a saint.

[Era Might]

[quote]Purgatory is not, as Tertullian thought, some kind of supra-worldly concentration camp where one is forced to undergo punishments in a more or less arbitrary fashion. Rather it is the inwardly necessary process of transformation in which a person becomes capable of Christ, capable of God [i.e., capable of full unity with Christ and God] and thus capable of unity with the whole communion of saints. Simply to look at people with any degree of realism at all is to grasp the necessity of such a process. It does not replace grace by works, but allows the former to achieve its full victory precisely as grace. What actually saves is the full assent of faith. But in most of us, that basic option is buried under a great deal of wood, hay and straw. Only with difficulty can it peer out from behind the latticework of an egoism we are powerless to pull down with our own hands. Man is the recipient of the divine mercy, yet this does not exonerate him from the need to be transformed. Encounter with the Lord is this transformation. It is the fire that burns away our dross and re-forms us to be vessels of eternal joy.

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[track2004]

I'd go for a "quite a long while" answer...

[goldenchild17]

Shoot, if I make it that far, I'll be there quite awhile(years and years and years and... well you get the point), but it will all be worth it, every second.

[Didacus]

purgatory purgatory purgatory....

[Paladin]

Why do you weep, Didacus? Those in Purgatory are already promised salvation, it's just a matter of purifying the soul to reach Heaven.

I think I'll be in purgatory a while, God willing. But afterward...

[Church Punk]

If God granted, no time, if God not granted his prescription is sufficient for me.

His Grace is sufficient.

[Myles Domini]

I'm not sure but I'm reckoning on an epoch.

[Didacus]

[quote name='Paladin' date='Apr 5 2006, 05:47 AM']Why do you weep, Didacus?  Those in Purgatory are already promised salvation, it's just a matter of purifying the soul to reach Heaven.

I think I'll be in purgatory a while, God willing.   But afterward...
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I weep the weight of my sins, which are many. The shame of having bitten the hand of my Creator for which I am truly sorry.

I also weep the tears that I shall justily shed until the happy conclusion.

I welcome God's judgement; I know it to be perfectly just. I fear what I deserve, and lack too much faith to know God's grace enough for my own comfort.



[i]The first good thing about purgatory is that I would not be in hell, which I fear even more.[/i]

[Paladin]

[quote name='Didacus' date='Apr 5 2006, 07:25 AM']I weep the weight of my sins, which are many.  The shame of having bitten the hand of my Creator for which I am truly sorry.

I also weep the tears that I shall justily shed until the happy conclusion.

I welcome God's judgement; I know it to be perfectly just.  I fear what I deserve, and lack too much faith to know God's grace enough for my own comfort.
[i]The first good thing about purgatory is that I would not be in hell, which I fear even more.[/i]
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Fair enough.

[Didacus]

[Tarcisius]

There are many reasons to weep, according to the accounts of many Saints, purgatory will be 10 times worse then the worst pain imaginable on Earth. Saints who have glimpsed purgatory instantly threw themselves into any pennance they could in order to avoid it. Pray for the souls in Purgatory.

[stbernardLT]

Hey waht is this about purgatory I thought everyone got to do the "limbo" until they went to heaven.

[dairygirl4u2c]

Benedict be spittin some pretty deep sh*t up there.

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

ill probably be there for a hell of a long time. if i even get in.