Saturday, November 5, 2016
Acts, Chapter 11, Verse 23-24
23
When he arrived and saw the grace
of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord in firmness of heart, 24 for he was a
good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and faith.
And a large number of people was added to the Lord.
The church grows because
of the grace of God established a principle that Christ accepts all whether
gentile or Jew as long as they remain faithful to the beatitudes and the teachings
of the church with a firmness of heart. Antioch and Syria was the seedbed of
the saints and martyrs in this time as it is now. Be firm.
Purgatory[1]
Pope Gregory speaks of a priest of Centumcellæ, now Civita
Vecchia, who also went to the warm baths. A man presented himself to serve him
in the most menial offices, and for several days waited upon him with the most
extreme kindness, and even eagerness. The good priest, thinking that he ought
to reward so much attention, came the next day with two loaves of blessed
bread, and, after having received the usual assistance of his kind servant,
offered him the loaves. The servant, with a sad countenance, replied, “Why,
Father, do you offer me this bread? I cannot eat it. I, whom you see, was
formerly the master of this place, and, after my death, I was sent back to the
condition in which you see me for the expiation of my faults. If you wish to do
me good, ah! Offer up for me the Bread of the Eucharist.” At these words he
suddenly disappeared, and he, whom the priest had thought to be a man, showed
by vanishing that he was but a spirit. For a whole week the good priest devoted
himself to works of penance, and each day offered up the Sacred Host in favor
of the departed one; then, having returned to the same baths, he no longer
found his faithful servant, and
concluded that he had been delivered. It seems that Divine Justice sometimes
condemns souls to undergo their punishment in the same place where they have committed
their sins.
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[1]Schouppe
S.J., Rev. Fr. F. X.. Purgatory Explained (with Supplemental Reading: What Will
Hell Be Like?)
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