[mlizzy]

A beautiful Mass; and holy priest! I had never heard of Museo del Purgatorio, though. Don't know how this escaped me, as purgatory was one of the reasons the Church initially made so much sense to me. From Matt C. Abbott:

Close to the Vatican, alongside the Tiber in Rome, stands a beautiful neo-gothic church — the only one in that style in the whole city — which is devoted to the Sacred Heart of Suffrage; suffrage in the meaning of help to the souls in purgatory. In a room in the sacristy are exhibited a small number of strange, fascinating "relics": objects bearing visible, physical traces left by souls in purgatory. The collection is known as the little Museum of Purgatory, the Piccolo Museo del Purgatorio. The Museo and the church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage represent two sides of purgatory: the collection offers impressive bits of tangible evidence for the harrowing existence of the souls there, while the church itself displays the Christian comfort of the mercy and charity for the suffering souls as practiced since time immemorial by the Catholic Church. The great central triptych in the church, representing the Sacred Heart, the poor (or holy) souls, and various saints, has even been called "a visual compendium of Catholic doctrine on purgatory" by Pope Benedict XV.

Holy Souls in Purgatory, we pray for you; please pray for us too. ♥

[steve86]

Will research this, thanks.

[GonzoII]

Went to Mass today!

This a book from a solid Catholic auther published by Tan Books:

[SaxxonWoods]

Thanks for posting. I’ve missed this church though I must have been close to it many times. Will see it on my next trip now that you have revealed it to me.