Geee where is your compassion?...
wait a minute... don't you want to get started ... in purgatory ????
and start paying for those SINS..???!!!!!
You are Sharing in the Mission
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Purgatory:
An Essential Roman Catholic DoctrineThough there is no biblical basis for purgatory, there is a strong philosophical need for it in Roman Catholic theology.
The Church views salvation as the ...
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Our challenge is further complicated by our inability to maintain our
previous income levels due to the increase of retiring brothers,
some of whom continued to teach or minister in other ways into their 70’s,
as well as the dramatic decrease of younger members joining us.
Newsletter of the Midwest Province of the Brothers of Holy Cross
If life teaches us anything, it clearly teaches us we are meant to be in relationship with and work together with others.
Ya it teaches.. nice flowery.. words... that feel the emoitional ego.. self..
RELIGIOUS EGO....
We have learned how this works during those times when a spirit of teamwork has been experienced.
Knowing we are not alone in trying to accomplish something worthwhile makes all the difference about how much commitment we decide to put into something.
There is a new energy when there is a confirmation that what we are about is something
others believe in the same as we do.
The roster of our contributors over the past year, listed in this newsletter,
gives evidence that these generous benefactors recognize the positive influence
the brothers have made in their lives and those of others, as well as
the needs the brothers now have because of their past unselfish generosity.
The truth of the matter is, our past generosity has put us in a most difficult
situation.
Let them go to Puratory...
Purgatory
For other senses of the word "Purgatory", see Purgatory (disambiguation).
Main article: Intermediate state
See also: Limbo, Heaven, Sheol, Hades in Christianity, and Hell in Christianity
Gustave Doré: illustration for Dante's Purgatorio, Canto 24Purgatory is the condition or process of purification in which the souls of those who die in a state of grace are made ready for Heaven.
This is an idea that has ancient roots and is well-attested in early Christian literature, while the conception of purgatory as a geographically situated place is largely the achievement of medieval Christian piety and imagination.[1]
The notion of purgatory is associated particularly with the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church (in the Eastern sui juris churches or rites it is a doctrine, though often without using the name "Purgatory"); Anglo-Catholic Anglicans generally also hold to the belief.
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, believed in an intermediate state between death and the final judgment and in the possibility of "continuing to grow in holiness there", but Methodism does not officially affirm his belief and denies the possibility of helping by prayer any who may be in that state.
[2] The Eastern Orthodox Churches believe in the possibility of a change of situation for the souls of the dead through the prayers of the living and the offering of the Divine Liturgy,
[3] and many Orthodox, especially among ascetics, hope and pray for a general apocatastasis.
[4] A similar belief in at least the possibility of a final salvation for all is held by Mormonism.
[5] Judaism also believes in the possibility of after-death purification
[6] and may even use the word "purgatory" to present its understanding of the meaning of Gehenna.
[7] However, the concept of soul "purification" may be explicitly denied in these other faith traditions.
The word "purgatory" has come to refer also to a wide range of historical and modern conceptions of postmortem suffering short of everlasting damnation,[1] and is used, in a non-specific sense, to mean any place or condition of suffering or torment, especially one that is temporary.[8
As you know through personal experience, health care costs have
risen 70% since the year 2000, according to the National Coalition of Health
Care.
Our challenge is further complicated by our inability to maintain our
previous income levels due to the increase of retiring brothers, some of
whom continued to teach or minister in other ways into their 70’s, as well
as the dramatic decrease of younger members joining us.
While we are taking several initiatives such as certifying our health care facility for Medicare and Medicaid, thus reducing costs, we still find ourselves struggling to cover our health care expenses.
With the many challenges we are facing as an aging community, we continue
to believe in our mission to be “men with hope to bring to others.”
We are committed to play a significant role in the lives of others as we did for
many of you.
Your support of us is a way of helping us keep our mission
alive, and for that, we are most grateful.
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