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"You the living can do everything for us, and we can do everything for you. It is an exchange of prayers." -The soul of a deceased priest

To whatever extent we become conscious during out earthly lives of our inability to rid ourselves completely of whatever blocks us from intimate union with God, we feel [spiritual] pain. We experience a taste of ‘purgatory’ recognizing how perfectly God loves & how imperfectly we love him in return. Purgatory is our meeting w/Christ who loves & our loving acceptance of that pardoning love. Our passage to holiness.

“I have told you all this about the soul’s interior life and your salvation to make you fall in love with my providence and clothe yourself in the light of faith and firm hope. Thus you will free yourself of selfishness and, in all that is yours to do, trust in me without any slavish fear.” Jesus to Catherine of Siena