Part 1, Chapter 9: The Pains of Purgatory, their Nature, their Rigour - Doctrine of Theologians - Bellarmine - St. Francis of Sales - Fear and Confidence.
There is in Purgatory, as in Hell, a double pain — the pain of loss and the pain of sense. The pain of loss consists in being deprived for a time of the sight of God, who is the Supreme Good, the beatific end for which our souls are made, as our eyes are for the light. It is a moral thirst which torments the soul. The pain of sense, or sensible suffering, is the same as that which we experience in our flesh. Its nature is not defined by faith, but it is the common opinion of the Doctors that it consists in fire and other species of suffering. The fire of Purgatory, say the Fathers, is that of Hell, of which the rich glutton speaks, “Quia crucior in hac flamma,” “I suffer,” he says, “cruelly in these flames.”
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"Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord.
And let the perpetual light shine upon them.
And may the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen."
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Source:
"Purgatory: Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the Saints" by Rev. F. X. Schouppe
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