St. Gertrude the Great is invoked for souls in purgatory and for living sinners. Our Lord told St. Gertrude that the following prayer would release 1000 souls from purgatory each time it is said.
St. Gertrude Roman Catholic Church was created in 1911.
No, KJV Bible does not contain the word purgatory. The concept of purgatory is a teaching of Catholic Church.
In the Roman Catholic Church, Purgatory is a place of temporary punishment for those who have committed minor, or venial, sins. In the Church teaching, it is of course bad, because the intention is that you do suffer. Protestants do not accept the existence of Purgatory.
No. In keeping with the practice of the early Church, Lutherans do not pray for the dead and do not teach a doctrine of Purgatory.
Depending on what church, heaven, hell, or purgatory.
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You don't need purgatory. Purgatory is a made-up place created by the Catholics in the earlier centuries, to get the church out of debt. Research the origin of purgatory to find out more. I concur. Next question please.
are those souls in purgatory waiting to be recieved into enternal glory
The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire: As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire.
Blessed Pope John Paul II, of happy memory, approved the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Purgatory and indulgences are a couple things that Lutherans don't agree with.
Gertrude Kohring has written: 'One hundred years in God's service' -- subject(s): St. Mary's Church, Rushville, N. Y., St. Theresa's Church, Stanley, N. Y.