Purgatory
Channel: Father Paddy Walsh
Date: 09/06/2018

'There are some who depart this life not so bad as to be deemed unworthy of mercy – not so good as to be admitted to the immediate happiness of heaven' (St Augustine).  Eternal life is deferred until one has undergone a prior period of purification and penance.  The pain is a temporary loss of God.  These souls are much more aware than we are of the distance between the goodness and beauty of God for whom they suffer an ardent longing and their own imperfect state.