Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascensia Presents.

So a little while ago I did a video on purgatory and so in that video, in the notes there are

some links to some arguments, you know, scriptural arguments as well as some historical and theological

arguments for the existence, the reality of purgatory.

And I invite you to take a look at that.

I'm just going to presume in this video that you understand that purgatory is real, that

it's a place of purification.

What is it?

We know as Christians that Jesus Christ, He took away the eternal consequences of sin,

the eternal consequences of sin being health.

But there are such things as temporary or in time consequences for sin.

We all recognize this and this is a very interesting thing is that we recognize that there's

eternal consequences for sin, aka hell.

There's also temporal consequences for sin that we experience the effects of it in our

lives.

One of the effects, one of the consequences of sin in our lives is we don't love how we

should, right?

We love the wrong things or we love the right things wrongly, right?

It just becomes one of those things where our hearts need to be purified.

Our love needs to be purified either in this life or in purgatory in order to be able

to do what, in order to be able to love God as He deserves.

Because I know this about myself, that even if I'm in a right relationship with God,

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