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“Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion of saints.' They are still our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we celebrate the Eucharist they are there with us, along with the angels and archangels. Why then should we not pray for and with them? The reason the Reformers and their successors did their best to outlaw praying for the dead was because that had been so bound up with the notion of purgatory and the need to get people out of it as soon as possible. Once we rule out purgatory, I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should - not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with God's joy and peace. Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God?”
N.T. Wright
“The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why purgatory appeals to the imagination. It is our story. It is where we are now. If we are Christians, if we believe in the risen Jesus as Lord, if we are baptized members of his body, then we are passing right now through the sufferings which form the gateway to life.”
N.T. Wright, For All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed“I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.”
Megan Miranda, Hysteria“To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.”
Roy Richardson“Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not.”
François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe“We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.”
John Connolly, The Infernals“God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, as Reenie used to say. Could it be that Myra is my designated guardian angel? Or is she instead a foretaste of Purgatory? And how do you tell the difference?”
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin“You are afraid to suffer, but it were better to thank God for it, since the more you undergo down here, the less you will endure above. Grief is a portion of one's heritage taken in advance from Purgatory.”
Saint Lydwine of Schiedam“Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.”
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