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To: bornacatholic

If we go that route then I'm even more suspect of the idea of a non-instantaneous purgatory...

heck the theif on Christ' right was with him that day in paradise...


62 posted on 01/29/2007 11:46:30 AM PST by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: kawaii
I'm even more suspect of the idea of a non-instantaneous purgatory...

Whether purgatory is instantaneous, or is experienced in time as we here on Earth understand time, or is experienced in a manner completely different from "time" is ... not a matter of doctrine. And the "number of days" indulgence, formerly used but now replaced, referenced a "number of days" of public, Earthly pennance. It did NOT reference "time" (again, it is not taught definitively whether souls in Purgatory experience "time" in a way we would understand it) in Purgatory, although many misunderstood it that way.

64 posted on 01/29/2007 11:50:23 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: kawaii

With God, all things are possible.


82 posted on 01/29/2007 12:11:29 PM PST by franky (Pray for the souls of the faithful departed.)
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To: kawaii

Ping me when Jesus says to you, "Today, you will be with me in Paradise."


90 posted on 01/29/2007 12:27:00 PM PST by bornacatholic
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