Our faith is anchored in a blessed resurrection. We profess to be immortals walking through time.
Yesterday we contemplated the Church triumphant, heralding the searing love of the saints and imploring their help while we still are this side of heaven.
Today we place before us the Church suffering, begging mercy upon the souls in purgatory to help them on their way to heaven.
Our works follow us. Time and again Jesus says as much. Not all of them are good, and even those good are mixed with faults and imperfections. Before we feast upon the glory of Christ Jesus the Lord, we want to be our very best and nothing less, purified of every blemish.
Souls faithful to grace will not need purgatory. Those who dare to give themselves totally to God, God purifies them here below. They are the ones permitting grace to shape their works according to God’s Word (cf. Luke 1:38).
Pray for the souls of the faithful departed. And may our doing so make us more courageous to embrace suffering in reparation for our own faults and failures.
