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Text Box: The soul wants to be made clean because it can not stand the thought of entering into God’s presence in its tarnished state. It knows it can only fully experience God and God’s Love and only reciprocate that Love if it is pristine, and it desires that pristine status so that it can be with God. And it does, it must, experience God and God’s Love even in Purgatory - otherwise it could not survive the cleansing process. If these thoughts are accurate, then, in actuality, while the soul does experience the horrible pain of being cleansed, the experience of God and of God’s Love is so powerful that God’s Love overwhelms the horrible pain of the cleansing process. It is not like anesthesia which is applied during surgery, for the pain of cleansing is experienced. It is more like something happening during surgery and that thing which happens makes experiencing the pain so less of an experience that it is experienced and noticed but not noticed because the other thing is so overpoweringly good. The pain of the cleansing of Purgatory is relegated to the far recesses of our perception. A soul which is in the presence of God can only recognize the experience of God even though it is in the process of undergoing and experiencing the painful process of cleansing. The experiencing of God and of God’s Love makes awareness of anything else impossible even though the knowledge of the pain of cleansing and the experiencing of the pain of cleansing is there. When a person dies he sees God and God’s Love. If at the instant of death he has rejected God, he flees God and God’s Love and casts himself into Hell so-as-to avoid God and His Love. But if at the instant of death the person is in even the slightest state of Grace, then the soul cast itself into God and God’s Love. Those few souls, the souls of infants which have never been sullied, and those of martyrs which have been cleansed in their martyrdom, and some

Text Box: few others, when they cast themselves into God’s Love, find themselves united with God in Heaven for all eternity. The rest of those souls which cast themselves into God’s Love do so knowing intuitively that they are also casting themselves into the process of being cleansed. But the attraction they have for God and for His Love is so strong that they gladly cast themselves into that process of cleansing because that process of cleansing is also casting themselves into God’s Love and the attraction of God’s Love is so strong they desire nothing else - they desire nothing other than God. Some people will look on this as a license to sin. They will tell themselves they can keep sinning their favorite sins because they will always desire God and God’s Love and therefore will at least get to Purgatory. But in telling themselves this, they are admitting they love their favorite sins more than they love God. Even a person who loves God and wishes to do His will, could, at the instant of death, be engaged in a sin which kills the soul. When a soul which is without Grace, without Divine Life, is separated from the body in death, it instantly is face to face with God in God’s judgment, and it flees away from God because its last desire and thought was to engage in the sin and to reject God. It flees from God’s Love. But the soul which leaves the body at death, and has even the smallest spark of Grace, of God’s Divine Life, is attracted to the fullness of the Divine Life in the Divine Love it perceives, and throws itself into that Divine Love. We therefore must do our best to always have God as our heart’s desire. Some think they should love their spouse more than they love God. But if they love their spouse more than they love God, they will be attracted to their spouse at the instant of their own death, and they will not seek to throw themselves into God’s Love when they die. This is why Our Saviour said those who love Him will leave everyone for

Text Box: Him. It means if there is a choice of God or someone else, if the choice is not God, then God will not be the future of the one making the choice unless they change their choice to God. If you love God more than you love your spouse, but you spouse loves someone other then God first, then your spouse will be jealous because you love God more then them. They will actually love themselves more than they love God. It is impossible that this could allow a happy marriage. But if a person loves God more than they love their spouse, and if they have married a person who loves God more than them, then both spouses are of like mind, and their love for each other will grow in their love of God and will strengthen their love of God. This is how strong our love of God must be. That we love God more than anyone else, especially more than we love ourselves. This will insure we cast ourselves into God’s Love at the instant of our death. Ref: 2 Cor 11: 19-33; 12:1-9; Luke 8:4-15 +

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