Sunday, October 11, 2009

SAINT SAYS PURGATORY HAS FIERCE FIRE: PURGATORY MUSEUM IN ROME INDICATES THERE IS A FIRE THAT BURNS WOOD AND CLOTH


Is the fire in Purgatory real?


The Museum in Rome would suggest it is.

So do the Catholic saints who have been given the grace by God to see Purgatory and return.

One such saint is St. Frances founder of the Oblates. The following passage is from the book Purgatory-explained by the lives and legends of the saints by Fr. F.X Schouppe S.J (Tan)

The Mystery of God’s Justice, p.15 Chapter 6.

It has pleased God to show in spirit the gloomy abodes of Purgatory to some privileged souls, who were to reveal the sorrowful mysteries thereof for the edification of the faithful. Of this number was the illustrious St.Frances, foundress of the Oblates, who died in Rome in 1440.God, favored her with great lights concerning the state of souls in the other life. She saw Hell and the horrible torments. She saw also the interior of Purgatory and the mysterious order. I had almost said hierarchy of expiations- which reigns in this portion of the Church of Jesus Christ.


In obedience to her superiors, who thought themselves bound to impose this obligation upon her, she made known all that God had manifested to her; and her visions, written at the request of the venerable Canon Matteotti; he spiritual director, have all the authencity that can be desired in such matters. Now, the servant of God declared that after having endured with unspeakable horror the vision of Hell, she came out of that abyss and was conducted by her celestial guide into the regions of Purgatory. There reigned neither horror nor disorder, nor despair nor eternal darkness: there divine hope diffused its light, and she was told that this place of purification was also called sojourn of hope. She saw there souls which suffered cruelly, but with angels visited and assisted them in their sufferings.


Purgatory, she said, is divided into three distinct parts, which are as the three large provinces of that kingdom of suffering. They are situated the one beneath the other, and occupied by souls of different orders. These souls are buried more deeply in proportion as they are more defiled and farther removed from the time of their deliverance.

The lowest region is filled with a fierce fire, but which is not dark like of Hell; it is a vast burning sea, throwing immense flames.Innumerable souls are plunged into its depths: they are those who have rendered themselves guilty of mortal sin, which they have duly confessed, but not sufficiently expiated during life. The servant of God then learned that, for all forgiven mortal sin, there remains to be undergone a suffering of seven years. This term cannot evidently be taken to mean a definite measure, since moral sins differ in enormity but as an average penalty. Although the souls are enveloped in the same flames, their sufferings are not the same; they differ according to the number and nature of their former sins….(Emphasis added)

TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION