Bible Blitz IV 1 Purgatory 2 Indulgences 3 Limbo

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Bible Blitz IV1 Purgatory2 Indulgences3 Limbo
Presenter Fr. Ed Technician Ray
Hosler Honoree Deacon Norm
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I - Purgatory

• The Final Purification
• (ref CCC 1030-32 1054, 1055)
• Those who die in Gods grace and friendship, but
  still imperfectly purified are indeed assured of
  their salvation but, after death, they undergo
  purification, so as to achieve the holiness
  necessary to enter the joy of heaven. (CCC1030)

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Purgatory

• Not a place (J.P.II, 1999)
• A state, a condition, a process temporary, will
  end
• Cleansing, purification, punishment,
  preparation
• Different from Hell heaven assured
• Can be helped by prayer, sacrifice, indulgences,
  almsgiving, Mass

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Purgatory

• Holy souls, Poor souls, Suffering souls

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Purgatory

• Scripture - The Bible
• Old Testament - Shadows
• Sin Stories
• Adam and Eve (Gen 317-19)
• Noah (Gen 6-9)
• Moses (Num 2012)
• David (2Sam 1213-14)
• 2 Maccabees 1238-46

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Purgatory

• New Testament Nothing defiled shall enter
  heaven
• Matt 1231
• Matt 521-36
• 1 Peter 46

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Purgatory

• Tradition - Early Church Fathers,
• Church Councils
• Clement of Alexandria (215),
• Tertullian (225)
• Origen (254)
• Cyprian (258)
• Augustine (430)

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Purgatory

• Teachings Afterlife
• Capable of purification
• Cleansing by spiritual fire
• Prayers for the dead
• Masses for the dead.

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Purgatory

• Councils Second Council of Lyons (1274)
• Florence (1438-39)
• Trent (1563)
• Lex Orandi Lex Credendi
• The law of praying The law of believing

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Purgatory

• All Souls Day, Nov 2nd
• Funeral Masses
• Masses for the dead
• Office of the dead
• Not bad enough to go to hell not good enough to
  go to heaven
• Please, pray for me!
• Thank you!

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II - Indulgences

• (CCC 1471-1479, 1498)
• An Indulgence is a remission before God of the
  temporal punishment to sin whose guilt has
  already been forgiven. (CCC 1471)

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Indulgences

• Not a pardon of sin not a license to sin
• Plenary Indulgence full remission of temporal
  punishment
• Partial Indulgence partial remission of
  temporal punishment

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Indulgences

• Eternal Punishment due to unforgiven mortal sin
• Temporal Punishment consequence of already
  forgiven sins
• State of Grace required to gain an indulgence

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Indulgences

• Treasury of the Church
• Communion of Saints
• Treasury superabundant merits of Jesus Christ,
  our Lady, and all the saints
• Communion The church in heaven and the Church
  on earth can pray and make sacrifices for the
  Souls in Purgatory that they will be hurried to
  heaven

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How to gain Indulgences

• State of grace do the required works have the
  intention of gaining the indulgence.
• The works include certain prayers, fasting,
  use of certain religiou article, visits to
  churches, the giving of alms, the reading of the
  Bible, etc.

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• A Plenary Indulgence is gained by a person in the
  state of grace, who intends to gain the
  indulgence, does the required work, receives
  sacramental confession and Holy Communion, and
  prays for the intention of the Pope one Our
  Father, one Hail Mary.

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• Some Plenary Some Partial Indulgences
• Some History of Indulgences
• Keys to the Kingdom
• Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in
  heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be
  loosed in heaven. (Matt 1619)

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III Limbo

• (not in CCC)
• Border, edge, vestibule, fringe

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Two Limbos

• Limbo of the Fathers The place where the
  saints of the Old Testament remained until the
  redemption was accomplished.
• Limbo of Infants The permanent state of
  unbaptized babies, free from suffering, though
  denied the happiness of heaven.

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• Unless a man be born of water and the Holy
  Spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. (Jn
  35)
• Limbo a 13th century word for our ignorance
• It has not been revealed what is the destiny of
  unbaptized babies.

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The Hope of Salvation

• For infants who die without being baptized

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The Commission

• Serious grounds for unbaptized infants salvation
• Not to be used to deny the need for baptism nor
  to delay its conferral

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Foundation Reasons

• The universal saving will of God.
• The superabundant power of Christs redemption.

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Different Forms of Baptism(Being Graced,
Christed)

• Water
• Blood
• Desire
• Adam and Eve
• Mary Immaculate Conception
• John the Baptist leap in the womb

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• God the Father not bound by the Sacraments.
• He can baptize His own ways
• Let the children come to me for to such
  belongs the kingdom of heaven. (Matt 1914, Lk
  1815-16)