Because Onesiphorus had served so well and was no longer alive, Paul prays for God’s blessing on his surviving family. All implications are that Onesiphorus has died. But Paul prays for him! In 2 Timothy 1:18, while in prison awaiting his death, Paul prays for the dead man and it is recorded in the Bible. Did-the-Apostle-Paul-pray-for-Onesiphorus-after-he-had-died-in-2-Timothy.pdf
ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: THE BODY AND THE SOUL WERE ONE BEFORE SIN
The Immortality of the Soul
From the moment of conception, every person has a unique and immortal soul. Death is the moment the soul is separated from the body, not a moment when the soul ceases to exist.
Does the human body “have” a soul? The Bible said in Genesis 2:7 that when God breathed in his nostrils the breath of life he “became a living soul”, he “came to “be” not that he came to “have” a soul.”
Actually that is correct. JWs say that Catholics believe that bodies have a soul. That accusation is not accurately theologically founded and anyone saying the contrary does not know Catholic theology. The Catholic Church teaches that a human person is composed of 2 undissociable components: a body AND a soul. The body does not “have” a soul. One does not possess the other. The body does not possess a soul and the soul does not possess a body. The human person IS the ensemble of those 2 characteristics and when Adam and Eve were created, these 2 components were undivisable, undissociable, unseparable. When Adam and Eve sinned, the punishement was death, the separation of those 2 previouly undissociable entities and the decompositon of the human body into dirt. But originally, death or the separation of the two was not part of the divine plan. It is the consequence of the original sin. ABSOLUTE MUST SEE VIDEO: THE BODY AND THE SOUL WERE ONE BEFORE SIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgqA59NVfAE
We are souled bodies, angels are spirits without bodies
ABSOLUTE MUST SEE – SOURCE OF MATERIAL COSMOS IN THE SOUL – MINUTE 24’29
1846 The Gospel is the revelation in Jesus Christ of God’s mercy to sinners.113 The angel announced to Joseph: “You shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”114 The same is true of the Eucharist, the sacrament of redemption: “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”115
1847 “God created us without us: but he did not will to save us without us.”116 To receive his mercy, we must admit our faults. “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”117
1848 As St. Paul affirms, “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.”118 But to do its work grace must uncover sin so as to convert our hearts and bestow on us “righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ ourLord.”119 Like a physician who probes the wound before treating it, God, by his Word and by his Spirit, casts a living light on sin:
Conversion requires convincing of sin; it includes the interior judgment of conscience, and this, being a proof of the action of the Spirit of truth in man’s inmost being, becomes at the same time the start of a new grant of grace and love: “Receive the Holy Spirit.” Thus in this “convincing concerning sin” we discover a double gift: the gift of the truth of conscience and the gift of the certainty of redemption. the Spirit of truth is the Consoler.120
1849 Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as “an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law.”121
1850 Sin is an offense against God: “Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight.”122 Sin sets itself against God’s love for us and turns our hearts away from it. Like the first sin, it is disobedience, a revolt against God through the will to become “like gods,”123 knowing and determining good and evil. Sin is thus “love of oneself even to contempt of God.”124 In this proud self-exaltation, sin is diametrically opposed to the obedience of Jesus, which achieves our salvation.125
1851 It is precisely in the Passion, when the mercy of Christ is about to vanquish it, that sin most clearly manifests its violence and its many forms: unbelief, murderous hatred, shunning and mockery by the leaders and the people, Pilate’s cowardice and the cruelty of the soldiers, Judas’ betrayal – so bitter to Jesus, Peter’s denial and the disciples’ flight. However, at the very hour of darkness, the hour of the prince of this world,126 The sacrifice of Christ secretly becomes the source from which the forgiveness of our sins will pour forth inexhaustibly.
1852 There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. the Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit: “Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.”127
1853 Sins can be distinguished according to their objects, as can every human act; or according to the virtues they oppose, by excess or defect; or according to the commandments they violate. They can also be classed according to whether they concern God, neighbor, or oneself; they can be divided into spiritual and carnal sins, or again as sins in thought, word, deed, or omission. the root of sin is in the heart of man, in his free will, according to the teaching of the Lord: “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a man.”128 But in the heart also resides charity, the source of the good and pure works, which sin wounds.
1854 Sins are rightly evaluated according to their gravity. the distinction between mortal and venial sin, already evident in Scripture,129 became part of the tradition of the Church. It is corroborated by human experience.
1855 Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God’s law; it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to him. Venial sin allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it.
1856 Mortal sin, by attacking the vital principle within us – that is, charity – necessitates a new initiative of God’s mercy and a conversion of heart which is normally accomplished within the setting of the sacrament of reconciliation:
When the will sets itself upon something that is of its nature incompatible with the charity that orients man toward his ultimate end, then the sin is mortal by its very object . . . whether it contradicts the love of God, such as blasphemy or perjury, or the love of neighbor, such as homicide or adultery…. But when the sinner’s will is set upon something that of its nature involves a disorder, but is not opposed to the love of God and neighbor, such as thoughtless chatter or immoderate laughter and the like, such sins are venial.130
1857 For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: “Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent.”131
1858 Grave matter is specified by the Ten Commandments, corresponding to the answer of Jesus to the rich young man: “Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and your mother.”132 The gravity of sins is more or less great: murder is graver than theft. One must also take into account who is wronged: violence against parents is in itself graver than violence against a stranger.
1859 Mortal sin requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God’s law. It also implies a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart133 do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.
1860 Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man. the promptings of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary and free character of the offense, as can external pressures or pathological disorders. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest.
1861 Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ’s kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.
1862 One commits venial sin when, in a less serious matter, he does not observe the standard prescribed by the moral law, or when he disobeys the moral law in a grave matter, but without full knowledge or without complete consent.
1863 Venial sin weakens charity; it manifests a disordered affection for created goods; it impedes the soul’s progress in the exercise of the virtues and the practice of the moral good; it merits temporal punishment. Deliberate and unrepented venial sin disposes us little by little to commit mortal sin. However venial sin does not set us in direct opposition to the will and friendship of God; it does not break the covenant with God. With God’s grace it is humanly reparable. “Venial sin does not deprive the sinner of sanctifying grace, friendship with God, charity, and consequently eternal happiness.”134
While he is in the flesh, man cannot help but have at least some light sins. But do not despise these sins which we call “light”: if you take them for light when you weigh them, tremble when you count them. A number of light objects makes a great mass; a number of drops fills a river; a number of grains makes a heap. What then is our hope? Above all, confession.135
1864 “Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin.”136 There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit.137 Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss.
Original Sin (Aquinas 101)
What is sin? Feeling Broken? How to Find True Happiness | Fr. Mike Schmitz | SEEK25
What’s the Difference Between Mortal and Venial Sins? (Aquinas 101)
Mortal vs Venial Sin | What’s the Difference?
Do We Really Inherit Original Sin from Adam and Eve? (Aquinas 101)
Bishop Barron on Original Sin
Why Confess Your Sins to a Priest? (Aquinas 101)
Cardinal Arinze clearly explains Mortal Sin
Mortal vs. Venial Sin
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS WHEN WE SIN – MINUTE 9’44
DIFFERENT PARTS OF SIN
LOS 3 PECADOS – EJERCICIOS ESPIRITUALES DE SAN IGNACIO DE LOYOLA
1030 All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.
1031 The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.604 The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. the tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:605
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.606
1032 This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: “Therefore Judas Maccabeus] made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.”607 From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God.608 The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead:
Let us help and commemorate them. If Job’s sons were purified by their father’s sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the dead bring them some consolation? Let us not hesitate to help those who have died and to offer our prayers for them.609
Purgatory Explained – by Scott Hahn
Evidence for Purgatory in the Gospel | Catholic Answers Podcasts
1038 The resurrection of all the dead, “of both the just and the unjust,”621 will precede the Last Judgment. This will be “the hour when all who are in the tombs will hear [the Son of man’s] voice and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.”622 Then Christ will come “in his glory, and all the angels with him …. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left…. and they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”623
1039 In the presence of Christ, who is Truth itself, the truth of each man’s relationship with God will be laid bare.624 The Last Judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life:
All that the wicked do is recorded, and they do not know. When “our God comes, he does not keep silence.”. . . he will turn towards those at his left hand: . . . “I placed my poor little ones on earth for you. I as their head was seated in heaven at the right hand of my Father – but on earth my members were suffering, my members on earth were in need. If you gave anything to my members, what you gave would reach their Head. Would that you had known that my little ones were in need when I placed them on earth for you and appointed them your stewards to bring your good works into my treasury. But you have placed nothing in their hands; therefore you have found nothing in my presence.”625
1040 The Last Judgment will come when Christ returns in glory. Only the Father knows the day and the hour; only he determines the moment of its coming. Then through his Son Jesus Christ he will pronounce the final word on all history. We shall know the ultimate meaning of the whole work of creation and of the entire economy of salvation and understand the marvellous ways by which his Providence led everything towards its final end. the Last Judgment will reveal that God’s justice triumphs over all the injustices committed by his creatures and that God’s love is stronger than death.626
1041 The message of the Last Judgment calls men to conversion while God is still giving them “the acceptable time, . . . the day of salvation.”627 It inspires a holy fear of God and commits them to the justice of the Kingdom of God. It proclaims the “blessed hope” of the Lord’s return, when he will come “to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all who have believed.”628
PURGATORY: When a nun covered in flames appeared to St. Faustina
Sins need to be cleansed in purgatory
When we incur guilt and our souls incur deformity… Catholic priest explains.
Where is the word “Purgatory” in the Bible
MUST SEE: Where Can I Find Purgatory In Scripture? – William Albrecht
PURGATORY: SANTA FAUSTINA
Pray for the souls of purgatory
Different levels in purgatory, even some joy in the highest levels
The levels of purgatory
LEVELS OF PURGATORY AKA PARADISE
¿A dónde van los niños abortados?
Oración para la reconciliación con los niños no nacidos
Brevemente, estos son los actos que deben realizar un hombre o una mujer responsables que han sufrido la pérdida de un hijo:
• Pedir perdón a Dios por la responsabilidad que haya podido tener en que se malograra ese embarazo y confesarse.
• Darle un nombre al niño, bien pidiendo a Jesús Eucaristía que lo inspire, bien eligiéndolo uno mismo.
• En la oración, pedid perdón al niño por las heridas del rechazo o por no haber podido darle una sepultura conveniente y que no haya recibido el sacramento del Bautismo.
• Orar por su sanación y por la propia sanación interior; declararle el propio amor, el actual deseo de acogerlo como regalo de Dios, de darle la vida.
• Encargar una misa por el eterno descanso de ese niño, a fin de que Dios le haya concedido el Bautismo de deseo (Dios, que conoce el pasado, presente y futuro, puede haberle dado ese regalo al morir en atención a las oraciones que se hagan hoy), y asistir a ella para dar gracias a Dios y devolvérselo libremente con la oración siguiente:
Oración
La vida de todo ser humano está en tus manos, Señor Jesús, y dijiste: “El que acoja a un niño como este en mi nombre, me acoge a mí (Mt 18,5)”.
Acepto ahora el niño que me diste sin que fuera consciente de ello, lo acojo en tu amor y declaro que lo amo como tú lo amas; lo recibo de ti como un gran regalo, en mi seno, para que crezca, mes tras mes, hasta su nacimiento. Deseo darle la vida para que sea feliz. Este niño muy amado, te lo devuelvo de todo corazón, lo entrego a tu Madre, a mi Madre, a su Madre, la Virgen María, al pie de la Cruz, para que lo ponga en tu costado abierto, en tu Corazón Traspasado. Oh Jesús, Señor Misericordioso, cúrame y libera completamente mi espíritu de todo recuerdo doloroso y de todo trauma por la pérdida de este hijo. Libera a mi hijo y a mí mismo de todo dominio del espíritu de muerte. Sana a mi hijo de todas sus heridas de rechazo y de falta de amor que haya podido sentir al malograrse su gestación. Cólmalo de tu paz y de tu alegría para que exulte en ti eternamente. Amén.
The levels of Purgatory – Minute 18′
What’s the Deal with Limbo? Did Limbo get canceled? Or are Catholics still allowed to believe in it?
