Whom, today, aided by our prayers, we hope will meet/has met the risen Lord. Surely we cannot be certain? The Catholic doctrine of purgatory is there for a reason!
Dear Maurice, I understand that Catholic teaching holds that as soon as we die Christ will preside over the particular judgement, so the saved (expectant or triumphant) and the damned equally meet the Risen Lord at the point of death for their individual judgement.
Ok. Fair enough. My reading of your words was that he was already with the Lord in heaven which, of course, you don't actually say. I stand corrected. God bless.
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Whom, today, aided by our prayers, we hope will meet/has met the risen Lord. Surely we cannot be certain? The Catholic doctrine of purgatory is there for a reason!
Dear Maurice,
I understand that Catholic teaching holds that as soon as we die Christ will preside over the particular judgement, so the saved (expectant or triumphant) and the damned equally meet the Risen Lord at the point of death for their individual judgement.
Ok. Fair enough. My reading of your words was that he was already with the Lord in heaven which, of course, you don't actually say. I stand corrected. God bless.
Dear Maurice,
Oremus invicem.
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