The Faithful Heart

Roman Catholic-Christian Chick. 19 years of age. Apologetic junkie.

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The most difficult challenges have the most beautiful rewards... Don't loose hope and keep going.

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Jesus suffered the most because He loved the most

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Saint Cecilia (Santa Cecilia), 2nd-3rd century

More information here: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=34

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I'm Thirsty

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I'm Thirsty.... O_o

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Desperate times call for desperate measures...

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If you happen to have prayer requests message me so I can pray for you!

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I remember life w/out a devotion to our Blessed Mother.... It sucked

Ya'll needa get with it & open up your eyes to how much Momma gets us closer to her Son, our Lord & Savior!! She's an amazing gift from God!!!

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Guess who came to my school!!! Doug Barry from Life On the Rock!!! Be jealous!... Haha jk that's a sin O_o

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JUST WATCH THIS.... TOO AWESOME

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If we fought for our rights (not God's rights) we'd be in hell tonight...

Think about it.... if we fight for our own will instead of the will of the All Mighty we are only condemning ourselves. Don't follow the world. Follow Christ.

Shoot for Heaven... or at least Purgatory(haha jk don't settle for second best.... BE SAINTS WHO GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN!) <3

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Feelin' fresh ;P

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Lord take all of me & replace it with all of You.

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Are the heretics right in denying that there is such a place of purification as purgatory?

By no means, for by such denial they oppose the holy Scriptures, tradition and reason. The holy Scriptures teach that there is a purgatory: it is related in the Second Book of Machabees, that Judas Machabeus sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem, to be used in the temple, to obtain prayers for those who fell in battle, for he believed it a good and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.

But for what dead shall we pray? Those in heaven do not require our prayers; to those in hell they are of no avail; we must then pray for those who are in the place of purification. Christ speaks of a prison in the future life, from which no man comes out until he has paid the last farthing. (Matt. 5: 25, 26) This prison cannot be hell, because from hell there is never any release; it must be then a place of purification. Again Christ speaks of sin which shall be forgiven neither in this world nor in the next, (Matt. 12:32) from which it follows that there is a remittance of some sins in the next world; but this can be neither in heaven nor in hell, consequently in purgatory. As the council of Trent says, (Sess. 6, c. 30.) the Church has always taught, according to the old tradition of the Fathers, in all her councils, that there is a purgatory, and every century gives proofs of the continual belief of all true Christians in a purgatory.

Finally, man's unblinded reason must accept a purgatory; for how many depart this earth before having accomplished the great work of their own purification? They cannot enter heaven, for St. John tells us: There shall not enter into it any thing defiled. (Apoc. 21:27) The simple separation of the soul from the body does not make it pure, yet God cannot reject it as He does the soul of the hardened sinner in hell; there must then be a middle place, a purgatory, where those who have departed not free from stain, must be purified. See how the doctrine of the Church, reason and the holy Scriptures all agree, and do not let yourself be led away by false arguments from those who not only believe in no purgatory, but even in no hell, so that they may sin with so much more impunity.

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very helpful for me as I am new to Catholicism

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"When you have a devotion to the Blessed Mother your spiritual life is on steroids"

CeCe (buddy from JPCU)