Read Me or Rue It: How to Avoid Purgatory

This little books is a timeless classic that all should read who want to know What is Purgatory and information regarding types of Sins and How we can help those souls that are in this place.



It is a prison of fire in which nearly all [saved] souls are plunged after death and in which they suffer the intensest pain. Here is what the great Doctors of the Church tell us of Purgatory: So grievous is their suffering that one minute in this awful fire seems like a century.



St. Thomas Aquinas, the Prince of Theologians, says that the fire of Purgatory is equal in intensity to the fire of Hell, and that the slightest contact with it is more dreadful than all the possible sufferings of this Earth!



CONTENTS INCLUDE:

APPROVAL OF HIS EMINENCE THE CARDINAL PATRIARCH OF LISBON

FOREWORD

"READ ME OR RUE IT"

HELP, HELP, THEY SUFFER SO MUCH!

PURGATORY

CHAPTER 1 : WHAT IS PURGATORY?

HOW COMES IT THAT THE PAINS OF PURGATORY ARE SO SEVERE?

CHAPTER 2 : CAN ALL THIS BE TRUE?

THE POLISH PRINCE

ST. ANTONINUS AND HIS FRIEND

CHAPTER 3 : HOW LONG DO SOULS REMAIN IN PURGATORY?

WHY SUCH LENGTHY EXPLATION?

VENIAL SINS

NOW TO COME TO MORTAL SINS

CHAPTER 4 : WHY PRAY FOR THE POOR SOULS?

WE ARE BOUND TO PRAY FOR THE HOLY SOULS

CHAPTER 5 : HOW WE CAN HELP THE HOLY SOULS

ALMS HELP THE HOLY SOULS

CHAPTER 6 : "WHAT THE HOLY SOULS DO FOR THOSE WHO HELP

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