A quick word to parents.

This week's content deals with death and what happens to us after death, according to Catholic teaching.

Although I try to deal with these topics in a kid-friendly way, if you have any hesitations,

I encourage you to listen to the episodes before turning them on for your family.

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The daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. Hey Spouts. Today is Wednesday, October 31st, 2018. It's also, as you probably know, Halloween, or All Hallows Eve, meaning the Eve of a great feast day, all saints day, which is tomorrow.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about death and what happens after we die.

First, we talked about why we face death and what will happen afterwards.

Next, we talked about the reality of hell and what we can expect at final judgment.

Today, we are going to talk about purgatory.

Now, purgatory is a place that we as Catholics believe in while other Christian faith do not believe in.

And let me tell you this, my friend, I am so happy that we believe in purgatory.

Now, what is purgatory? When we die, we either can go to heaven or hell.

We go to hell if we have completely disconnected ourselves from God and turned our back on him completely.

We go to heaven if we are completely united with God and ready to stand in his presence.

However, for many of us, we won't fall clearly into either of those categories. We lived a good life, but it wasn't perfect. And in many ways, we aren't

quite ready to stand in the presence of God, at least not yet. So God has a third place to send us, and that is

purgatory. Pergatory is a place where our soul is purified so that we will be able to go to

heaven one day. In fact, all souls in purgatory are promised heaven, but just not quite yet.

Now, why is this such a beautiful teaching in our Catholic faith?

It's beautiful because it reminds us that our God is merciful

and that our God sees our attempts even if they aren't 100% successful.

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