Messages from Purgatory - EWTN Vaticano

welcome back you're watching vaticano [Music] the feast of All Saints on November the 1st is followed the next day by the feast of All Souls it's the time when people visit cemeteries and pray for their dead relatives Christian tradition says that life after death is divided into three dimensions Hell the place for people who have rejected God heaven for those who are in friendship with God and then predatory [Music] but what is this place called purgatory to discover that we met up with father John walke professor of literature and communication of the faith to discover how frigate Ori began being represented the tradition of purgatory is based on the above all on text in the in the Bible in the Old Testament and then also in the writings of the early church fathers about prayers for the dead about the value of praying for the dead and that's a very ancient or the very first Christians talk about praying for the souls of those who have died and it only makes sense to pray for the souls who have died if you can do some good for them right if they were in hell you couldn't and if they're in heaven they don't need your health the Church of the Sacred Heart of suffrage is a very particular Church it's the only church in Rome built in the neo-gothic style but what makes it really special is a small room located next to the sacristy it's a small Museum of the holy souls of purgatory the church doesn't have any official teaching about whether souls of purgatory can visit the earth but there are witnesses who have testified to that happening that a soul from purgatory has come and asked for prayers for instance--and and even left say a fingerprint or or burned a page of a book or something there's physical evidence that they claim came from a soul in purgatory the museum contains around 15 testimonies and artifacts collected from around Europe by father Victor Joette a French priest in many of the cases it's held that the marks were left is proof that the deceased had really appeared asking for prayers for masses to be said for their souls sake [Music] father andrea is a member of the missionaries of the Sacred Heart the community that's in charge of this church in the museum named me Liotta Shinto no Vantage Cinque down no Sorokin fratello this church was built in 1895 by one of our fellow brothers one of the first members of our congregation fathers ue who believed in the souls of purgatory he would always spur peope to pray in suffrage of these souls diaspora Nava sempre leper Sonia pragati para para su fragile the Christian Amana the idea for the construction of the museum also came from father's yet the regional Chapel before the construction of this beautiful church was dedicated to the souls of purgatory as well it had an icon of Holy Mary holding a rosary in one of her hands with the souls of purgatory below when this original Chapel caught fire the icon survived and on the left-hand side of the wall the scorched image of a man appeared which the faithful believed to be a trapped soul protego meant a la parte case Tata de muro de la capela que pasa the integrity' a linter nordella this is a part of the original chapel later incorporated into the walls of the church and here you can see a suffering face it's nearly all faded you can see the eye on this face and it is if you will suffering and this very same face is found inside the museum in its original colors imagine a dip in THL internodal typical museo proper care Loree chemical aesthetical hora con man satellite Roboto da pun Ingenio [Music] spurred on by this occurrence fathers yet started to travel around Italy and Europe in search of these many artifacts that would demonstrate to people the existence of purgatory the collection thus gathered is kept in one room near the sacristy of the Church of the Sacred Heart of suffrage here are many documents and photos that attest to the supernatural manifestations of the souls of the Dead among these relics are a prayer book with an alleged handprint on one of its pages a pillowcase branded by the soul of a nun who died of consumption in 1984 and who later appeared to another nun to convince her to pray for her Souls sake and there are many others including the traces left by the passage of a dead woman on the cap of her widowed husband in 1875 prácticamente rested on a parfait and marito basically this woman appeared to her husband and asked him to pray in suffrage of her Souls because she said she was in a situation of suffering not able to leave Purgatory's the disappearance of our generous Eva I will ship on guitar okay Dupree Guerra these fingerprints on the prayer book of Maria Zog auntie of the parish of st. Andrew and poggio Bellini in Italy were left by the deceased Palmyra rastelli the parish priest sister on March the 5th 1871 Palmyra rastelli who had died on the 28th of December 1872 brother Don Santa rastelli by means of her friend for some holy masses artistic representations of purgatory have been various sometimes it's presented as fire and people the theologians about also talked about the fires of purgatory but the most famous representation of purgatory in art is Dante's purgatory Oh in the Divine Comedy which is dividing the three parts in fetanyl for hell the Paradiso for heaven and then purgatory which is purgatory and Dante doesn't represent it as fire at all in fact in the Dante's version of purgatory oh it's a mountain and it's a mountain on the other side of the world from the inhabited part of the world it's on the opposite side of the world and it has seven levels of terraces that correspond to the seven capital sins there's a painting behind the altar of the Church of the Sacred Heart of suffrage and it represents the three dimensions of the church the Catholic churches are always understood itself to be divided in three parts right there's the church militant which is the church on earth those who are in the in there in life right and then there is the Trish triumphant and those are the souls who are in heaven and the third part are the souls in purgatory the church suffering Chianti La Mesa she apparently is she a Syrian divisible a moon ultra dimension during Mass the repetition of the sacrifice of Christ brings relief to these souls and when mass is celebrated the whole communion of the Saints is present and all the souls and all the invisible reality and so there you have represented this passage experienced by the souls through mass from a state of suffering they slowly change their expression and their appearance until through Jesus they become the same as God Delana make a prima donna start anew so Forenza purgatory is the temporary place of hope and purification of souls it's the exact opposite of health it's possible that most of the church is actually in purgatory right now praying for the church in purgatory is one of the spiritual works of mercy [Music]

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Length: 8min 16sec (496 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 31 2017