Purgatory? Keep following Christ, you are almost there, heaven that is! This week on OVC I discuss the scriptural basis for prayers for the dead and the doctrine of Purgatory. Our prayers for the dead are rooted deeply in scripture and tradition. 
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110225.cfm
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Art: Carving "Soul in Purgatory," 1938 Ethel Dougan

The Petrine Primacy and St. John Lateran Basilica

“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.” - Flannery O’Connor, A Memoir of Mary Ann