Posts Tagged ‘Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’
Sobering encouragement from our Pope Emeritus
Where in the heck did Catholics come up with purgatory?
“We often die with an unhealthy attachment to sin. At the hour of our death, our souls may not be fully fixed on evil but neither are they fully fixed on the perfections of God. We aren’t unrepentant, just unperfected.”
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Pope Benedict found himself positioned between two “rock stars” in his papacy. The media was particularly tough on him. And yet he has been such a gift to the world.
His quote above is an example of his gentle wisdom…
Read More“If there was no purgatory, man would invent it”
By Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI “I would go so far as to say that if there was no purgatory, then we would have to invent it, for who would dare say of himself that he was able to stand directly before God. And, yet we don’t want to be, to use an image from Scripture,…
Read MoreOh, to die of joy
The Catholic Mass exceeds my feeble understanding. Christ is there. All the angels. All the saints. The New Jerusalem joins earth in singing praise to God Almighty.
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