Sin is the one thing that holds back the
Progress of men and women. True progress is
man's ascent to God. Only sin blocks his path.
Vice and crime throw human beings back
to animal levels when they should be mounting
towards the angels.
Death in mortal sin means the complete
failure that is hell. It flings a man, who is destined
for eternal happiness, into eternal loss and pain.
Death in venial sin or with the punishment
due to sin still on the soul means a halt in the
progress toward heaven. The poor soul-poor
indeed in his eagerness to reach God and the
tedious, painful delay that keeps him from
God-must linger in God's prison house.
This is the sad land of purgatory.
It is a place of anxious, almost impatient waiting.
Since there are in purgatory relatives we
loved and friends we knew and thousands of
others who call to us for help, we pause and say:
O God, the creator and redeemer of all the
faithful, grant to the souls of thy servants and
handmaids departed, the remission of all their
sins; that through pious supplications they may
obtain the pardon they have always desired.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father in
the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without
end. Amen
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