It's said that Christmas night is when the most souls are released from purgatory. It's also said that on her feast days -- as Guadalupe is such a feast -- the Blessed Mother appears in purgatory to console the souls.
Let's reflect on purgatory -- the great place of expiation.
When Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem -- from just across a valley -- it was due to that city's worldliness. It had not accepted the "visitation" -- (Luke 19:44). With its worldliness, it had rejected God.
We often lose sight of "worldliness," a great danger not only to temporal peace but also to time in purgatory. What is not atoned for here will be atoned for in the hereafter. Many are those who go to church, pray, and perform good works of mercy, but allow a "thin crust" of worldliness to form around their souls. This must be melted away before one reaches eternal glory. It is purgatory that demonstrates God's greatest Love and Mercy. It is swamped with that. It is permeated with love. It is a workshop of reparation. The soul must be repaired from damage incurred during the trials of earth. It must be restored to its original splendor.
"Many Poor Souls prayed and begged me to go to the world and tell them there of purgatory, that they may not live in 'blindness," says an anonymously written revelation contained in an incredible little booklet, The Secrets of Purgatory. "So I am writing these words to the best of my ability, impelled, as it were, by the Poor Souls themselves. There are many souls in purgatory. These souls are so beautiful -- they are there only to be polished as a pure crystal glass. The gold has only to be purified from all the dross of earth. A truly holy intellect is something of importance for all eternity. It contains no harshness, no misunderstanding, no evil, and no aversion, wickedness, or pride. Truly genuine and holy understanding is simply an outpouring of Divine understanding, of Divine knowledge. All harshness must suffer violence in purgatory."
Read more here: http://spiritdaily.com/purgatorysecretsworld.htm
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