All Souls (C)
Channel: Father Paddy Walsh
Date: 2019-11-03

'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.  We should use this present world as an outpost of purgatory.  Purgatorial pain is far more intense than anything to be experienced here on earth.