Can i avoid purgatory

I asked these souls what their greatest suffering was. They answered me in one voice that their greatest torment was longing for God. I wanted to talk with them some more, but my Guardian Angel beckoned me to leave.

We went out of that prison of suffering. This vision further confirms the existence of purgatory and its nature as a cleansing fire which spiritually purifies the suffering souls. Faustina and many other saints, like St. Padre Pio, were devoted to the Holy Souls in purgatory and even told of souls who came to them in visible human form to ask for their intercession. No stranger to the needs of the Holy Souls, St. So what can we do to avoid going to purgatory — or at least to avoid going to hell and hopefully spending as little time in purgatory as possible?

The most important things are to strive to remain in a state of grace through prayer and the sacraments, and particularly Holy Communion and Confession, while also doing our best to live a good moral life.

As regards being in a state of grace at the moment of death, devotion to Our Lady historically and at Fatima, provides us with two excellent means of doing this. The first is the brown scapular which was given to St. Simon Stock by Our Lady, in England, in the 13th century. She appeared to him, gave him the scapular as a large garment, and said.

Regarding Fatima, we have the Five First Saturdays promise of Our Lady that she will assist at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, go to confession and receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep her company for 15 minutes while meditating on remaining mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to her Immaculate Heart.

Coming back to the Divine Mercy devotion, this new revelation is a further source of comfort for us. The reason why people go to purgatory in the first place is that, despite being in a state of grace and having confessed their sins, they still must undergo temporal punishment before entering heaven, unless they had perfect contrition for those sins.

The beauty of the Divine Mercy devotion is that it contains a promise that not only will our sins be forgiven, but also the temporal punishment attached to them will be wiped out. Our Lord revealed to St. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy.

The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment…Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. Faustina , Purgatory is in some senses a frightening doctrine in terms of its severity, but through wearing the brown scapular and doing the Five First Saturdays and Divine Mercy devotions, we can hope to reduce out time in purgatory or even avoid going there altogether. Given all that, it would foolish to pass up on these great privileges the Church offers us in these sacramentals and devotions.

This is what actually removes the punishment due to sin. An indulgence can either be partial only part of the punishment is removed or plenary all of the punishment is removed. The majority of indulgences are partial since plenary ones are difficult to obtain. No sin can be committed during this process or the indulgence will become partial. A very good way to avoid Purgatory is to help those who are imprisoned there. The Holy Souls are aware of who prays for them and what role they played in lessening their time in Purgatory.

Once they are released into Heaven, they pray constantly for the salvation of their greatest friends who helped them. Your time in Purgatory can be lessened if not eliminated by dedicating yourself to free the suffering saints.

One great thing that can be done for them is to offer the indulgences from all of your prayers with the Heroic Act of Charity.

The final sacrament one receives, the Sacrament of Extreme Unction , can eliminate all of the time spent in Purgatory. The best thing that one can do with this sacrament is to offer it to the Holy Souls. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. If you think you are worth what you know, you are very wrong.

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Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. By Fr John Flader I have always thought that it is not easy to go straight to heaven when we die, but recently a friend argued, based on the Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas, that the Anointing of the Sick removes all our temporal punishment and, in any case, there is a plenary indulgence at the moment of death for those who prayed habitually.

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