Thanks to those who said a prayer and\/or left a comment, greatly appreciated.
\nThis has caused me to reflect more on the mystical body of Christ and especially
\npurgatory. I am also thankful of purgatory, especially with the statement in the
\nbook of Revelations<\/p>\n
But nothing unclean shall enter it So if I make it that far I will be more than happy to receive the deep The prayer of Well I’m just a man so hopefully that will be good enough. I have often heard My Grandmother has two sisters both living (one who is 99) and I know that Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And may the souls of all the faithful departed, through Thanks to those who said a prayer and\/or left a comment, greatly appreciated. This has caused me to reflect more on the mystical body of Christ and especially purgatory. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncleaning and scrubbing required to look at God in the Beautific Vision. In some
\nways I see the blogosphere as a metaphor for the communion of saints. We ask for
\nothers to pray for us even though normally we don’t see them or know what they
\nlook like or even where they are located. And we pray for others who we also
\ncan’t see. It was a great mercy of God that he allows our prayers to work in his
\nwill (it certainly wasn’t required). One of the best descriptions I head of this
\nwas the example of the mother who lets her child help her in the baking of
\ncookies, the mother certainly didn’t require this help – but through love
\nincluded the child in the preparation.<\/p>\n
\na just man has great power in its effects. –James 5:16 <\/font>
<\/font><\/p>\n
\nof the spiritual cleansing fire in purgatory and thought about the fact that we
\nalways seem to concentrate on the seemingly negative aspects of things. We
\nnormally don’t see the great joy of having faults and imperfections removed from
\nus. When we think of detachment we think of having to force ourselves from the
\nattachment to things. There is that famous statement of St. Augustines’ “Give me
\nchastity and continence, but not yet.” I try to think of it as attachment
\ninstead; attachment to God alone. To attach ourselves to God alone we must
\nremove those many tentacles of attachment to things. Just another of those many
\nseeming paradoxes, such as dying to ourselves to live. Our society sees many
\nthings as a zero-sum game, such as if someone earns another dollar then someone
\nmust be losing a dollar. We think that to love and devote ourselves to God more
\nis to love and devote ourselves to our neighbor less. This zero-sum game in
\neconomics is patently false and it is even more false in our relation to God and
\nneighbor which is dynamic. Another example that I have heard used is of a
\ntriangle; where one side of the triangle is the love of God and the other side
\nis love of neighbor, as you approach the apex both sides get closer and at the
\ntop they are perfectly united.<\/p>\n
\nthere time here is closing and I have another Grandmother in her late 90s. My
\nmother is dying from cancer and my Aunt is also not in very good condition. I
\ncertainly don’t look forward to when they do die and know there will be great
\npain in this (just admiting this to mysellf and writing the last couple of
\nsentences was more painful than I thought it would be), but the reality of
\nredemption and salvation also makes me rejoice in their hopeful union with God
\nalone.<\/p>\n
And
\nlet the perpetual light shine upon them.<\/font><\/p>\n
\nthe mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"