If you would like to refute that assertion, just show me where Purgatory is taught by Jesus. Then show me where The Word of God designates the mother of Jesus as able to give a pass from that imagined destiny of purging before entry to Heaven.
Catholicism cannot do that, since the entire edifice of institutional empowerment is fabricated from straw and stubble. If you give it a try, pay attention to the still small voice within trying to awaken your somnabulent mind to truth.
Re: sacramentals: A sacramental is simply an aid, it does not produce an effect.
Consider a wedding ring. A man wears it and is reminded of his wife when he sees it. What does a man do when he wants to commit adultery? Takes off the wedding ring, takes off the reminder that what he is about to do is very wrong.
Oddly enough, a wedding ring is also a sacramental.
The promises attached to the brown scapular are not actually taught by the Church.
Re: Purgatory: next post
Purgatory: 1 Cor 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. 14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
As I mentioned before, the promises attached to the brown scapular are not taught by the Church.
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Interestingly, I went through Protestantism for a few years on my way to Catholicism, so there’s no little voice or somnabulism about me :)