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| Fresco in the Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo's Last Judgement represented. Levante-EMV |
On Monday, January 24, at lunch I found the newspaper Levante on Sunday, March 23rd, which had been left forgotten on the table take a look and my eyes fell upon an article entitled "New guide grave." As I was engrossed in reading " The city of the Great King " novel set in Purgatory, I could curiosity and I kept that page to read in peace.
After a couple of weeks of having parked the article, I have read and researched a bit on the net locating interesting documents about Purgatory, but back now to the Levante and newspaper article.
Already in the first paragraph of this text appears: "a few days ago during a catechetical the Vatican's Saint Catherine of Genoa, known for his treatises on the nature of the purge of souls, the Pope spoke of the "inner fire" that will purify the person after death, and while waiting for the Last Judgement: that is the Purgatory. "
Life has these incidents, so I kept reading and found that the Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II, the otherworldly realities Heaven, Hell and Purgatory exist but are not specific locations, materials . Continuous reading and it turns out the Pope, according to St. Augustine, in a meeting with the Roman clergy divided the souls of men after their death into three categories, and quantify even an approximate number.
First, speaking of Hell, existing and eternal, but not crowded, "Maybe not many people who have destroyed themselves, which are incurable forever , the lack of any evidence that you can rely on the love of God, not themselves have a minimal capacity to love. This would be the Fire. " Second, "are certainly few, or at least not too many who are so pure they can enter immediately into the communion of God." These little heaven awaits. Instead, "many of us hope that there is something in sanable us, there is a final will to serve God and serve mankind, to live according to God. But there are so many injuries, so much filth, that we need to be prepared, to be purified. This would be the reality of Purgatory .
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that if there is, Purgatory must be crowded, I say if because the Pope is just loaded at a stroke the existence of Limbo. After reading the middle section and I was wondering when and why the idea of \u200b\u200bPurgatory. And the end of the article gives me a vital clue to continue delving into this issue that if not for the work of Oscar Esquivias would not even read the newspaper article, this is the name of a prolific French historian. But look as shown in the article.
The believers rooted in ideas about Heaven, Hell and Purgatory as specific places goes back several centuries. For example, the specific concept of Purgatory, which had established St. Augustine with the poetic sentence: "A flower wilts on his grave, a tear on the memory evaporates, but a prayer for his soul, he receives God"-was developed fully during the thirteenth century, according to historian Jacques Le Goff , who in his work The Birth of Purgatory explains the emergence according to a threefold scheme applies also to the fact that, in addition to nobles and poor, the middle class begin to exist.
According to Le Goff, Purgatory is "a double intermediate: it is not as happy as in heaven, nor so miserable as hell, and only last until Judgement" . Purgatory is materialized then, and even later immortalized in The Divine Comedy by Dante . And it is so material that opens up new economic ways, with the market of indulgences, one of the reasons that Luther break with Rome.
This comment belongs to the book club on the trilogy based on the Civil War Oscar Esquivias directed from La Acequia , Pedro Ojeda Escudero.
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