1.Do you have to be a member of a Church to participate in Mass, and Holy Communion?
2. Do you have to be a member to attend the confessional?
3.Is there an issue in the church for someone in Terri's situation and when she last confessed?
I have on occasion wondered about the rules for Purgatory, will time in the PVS count as time served?
Is Purgatory only for Catholics?
Was the 2nd coming of Jesus when he returned on Easter and established his Church on earth?
Will folks in Purgatory be picked up during the Rapture?
Is it important to have Israel around so God can destroy it?
My questions were aimed at understanding a reason why Terri may not have had a 'spiritual adviser' for her parents to 'produce'.
I assume yours are too. But, as we've seen you can get in trouble when you assume.
I will try to answer the questions that I can, although some of them are a little on the strange side, I must say.
1.Do you have to be a member of a Church to participate in Mass, and Holy Communion? No - you just have to have received the Sacraments of Baptism, First Confession, and First Holy Communion
2.Do you have to be a member to attend the confessional? - No - same as #1
3.Is there an issue in the church for someone in Terri's situation and when she last confessed? - Terri has received last rites, so she is in good shape with God, so to speak.
4. I have on occasion wondered about the rules for Purgatory, will time in the PVS count as time served? - don't know about that one, but God is merciful.
5.Is Purgatory only for Catholics? - not sure, but I don't think so
6.Was the 2nd coming of Jesus when he returned on Easter and established his Church on earth? - no - we are still awaiting Christ's second coming
7.Will folks in Purgatory be picked up during the Rapture? - not sure about that one
8.Is it important to have Israel around so God can destroy it? - WHAT????