How to die as a Catholic: Purgatory, Indulgences, & the Afterlife
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- This episode talks about purgatory, indulgences, and how to properly prepare one's soul for eternal life as a Catholic.
Sources:
A Manual of Catholic Piety, Page 353 (Prayer against a quick): books.google.c...
The Catechism on Mortal sin vs. Venial sin: www.vatican.va...
Catholic Answers (Supererogatory defined): www.catholic.c...
1 Peter 4 (Charity covers a multitude of sins): bible.usccb.or...
Matthew 5:26 (purgatory reference): bible.usccb.or...
An explanation of Matthew 5:26: www.catholic.c...
Luke 23 (The Good Thief): bible.usccb.or...
Indulgentiarum Doctrina by Pope Paul VI (Indulgences defined): www.vatican.va...
The Catechism on Indulgences: www.vatican.va...
Apostolic Penitentiary (Definition): www.vatican.va...
Apostolic Penitentiary (Conditions for an Indulgence): www.vatican.va...
Decree on Granting of the Indulgence During the Ordinary Jubilee Year 2025: www.vatican.va...
The USCCB’s Manual of Indulgences (Enchiridion Indulgentiarum in English): www.amazon.com...
Code of Canon Law #994 (Indulgences for the dead): www.vatican.va...
John 9 (Night when no man works): bible.usccb.or...
The Catechism on Perfect Contrition: www.scborromeo....
Indulgence with Anointing of the Sick: www.straphaela....
City of God 1.8 (Augustine’s explanation of the power of suffering): www.ccel.org/c...
How do you not have more subscribers. Such high quality videos explaining catholic teaching that is unknown to most catholics so articulately. Keep up the good work and God bless!
Thanks! I think the audience is out there, TH-cam just requires a lot of patience (and getting lucky).
@@CatechesisVids friendly question, as a devout catholic. Are we allowed to believe in luck rather than believing in God's grace and blessings? tbh, love your videos! though I'm this young i can understand your simple presentation. Hope to see a lot of catechisms from you! Godbless!
@@CatechesisVids KEEP TRYING, YOU WILL GET YOUR BREAKTHROUGH!
@@CodyEndoso By luck he meant the probability that something will happen and so in this context is the algorithm choosing his channel to be famous
As a dying Catholic, this is very relevant. Thanks TH-cam.
Commenting for the algorithm so others can hopefully see this excellent video
Thanks
That was really beautifully said. Thanks 🙏
Incredibly well organized and structured! Great video, loved how good the editing was and how adding scripture during the explanation helped validate your points, while making them very clear. God bless you 🙏
Fire! Your channel is a goldmine for someone in OCIA! God bless, Hunter
Great, I'm glad you're finding it helpful. Good luck on your faith journey!
Great video
This is one of my favorite channels.
Thank you for explaining this in a beautiful way. Thank you for making videos about our faith of such a high quality too! God bless you 🙏🏻
Thank you
I just stumbled on this video man. Newly subbed.
Sometimes I feel like god won’t allow me into heaven because of all the messed up stuff I’ve done even after confession I think I get OCD in terms of perfectly confessing everything I’ve done in my life which I obviously can’t remember. But I struggle a lot with lust and last Saturday I really felt forgiven and I was doing good until for some stupid reason I fell into mortal sin again which I hate myself for.
I’ve been reading the Bible more since my grandmother passed earlier in the year, and Christ came to me telling me he is the way the truth and the life. I asked him if he wanted me to serve him in the church or have a family and he said that choice is up to you.
With the state of how women are now days it’s just hard to see how I’d even be able to have a family and I’ve made the decision to be a monk if I don’t get a girl by the time I’m 30.
Sorry for the rant, pray for me and I shall pray for all of you.
Ave christus rex
Thanks for sharing. A few things: 1) God will always forgive so long as one truly seeks repentance - so always entrust yourself to him, 2) keep reading the scriptures, 3) if you are still habitually falling into mortal sin you should hesitate to call modern women unmarriageable. Consider looking at a parish with young persons for a good woman. 4) If you have not already - you might consider asking a good priest to be your spiritual director.
Good luck on your faith journey.
Dear, I can so well feel this quest in you.
Consider to engage with a vow to the Virgin Mary, to become a third order Carmelite, in carrying a Brown Scapular. This implies that you truly wish to serve God through the Virgin Mary and there are different stages possible, of which the tjird and most sincere vow promises that everything youre, you were before, or you will be....belongs to the Virgin Mary and thus to Her Son Jesus, all you are, posses, any virtue....all..this way you become the slave of the Virgin Mary, and therefore in fulfillment the slave and teue servant of Christ. But you do not have to so far ..''only if you hear the calling.
Carrying a brown Scapular has changedcmy life completely, you are never again lost, alone, your Matrix the Virgin Mary...a most beautiful way to serve God...
To learn more , see to study the book written by Saint Louis de Montford..TRUE DEVOTION TO MARY, the 33 days of consecration...
I love your editing style so much; it’s the perfect mix of concise, interesting information and digestible editing style. Can I ask what made you so interested in making this content / how you research for these videos?
Thanks for your feedback!
I'm interested in making these videos because I've always liked making videos. My undergraduate degree was tv/film, but I double majored in theology. So it's just a good fusion of those disciplines. I want to help Catholics know their faith better, because good formation among Catholics is often lacking.
I research these videos in different ways depending on the topic. If it's something I already know pretty well, I can usually write the script without needing a lot of secondary research beyond the Catechism, Code of Canon Law, Church Councils, etc. If it's a topic I don't know as well, I've started trying to find a work by an practicing academic to serve as a starting point.
These videos always have an impressive amount of work in them. Great job 👏
Hello friend, I finally found out where I read that Photius died in communion with Rome, in the book of Dvornik, The Photian Schism
"Communion" may be said in a number of senses, and if that book claims Photius was in communion I'm not sure it would be a very meaningful sense. Photius failed to acknowledge the filioque; he was not in fact in communion with Rome whatever back and forth may have gone on with ecclesiastical politics as he fell in and out of favor. The essence of communion is right belief, and Photius' belief was false. I'd have to study his life more to say much more than that.
@@CatechesisVids I don’t know man, the Catholic Church was aware that the easterners didn’t wholeheartedly agree with the filioque for like 300 years between the 750-1050, but it never dared to excommunicate someone for protesting filioque. The reason Photius was excommunicated twice was for trying to excommunicate the Pope unlawfully and becoming patriarch as a layman
I think by this comment you mean to imply that the filioque is some sort of optional or supplementary view in the eyes of the Church (or some kind of pious tradition), which I can assure you is not the case. It's the Orthodox Church actually, who gave up in the filioque at the Conclusion of the Ecumenical Council of Florence - during which the bishops and their legates voted to ratify the proceedings, thus (temporarily) bringing an end to the Photian schism.
@@CatechesisVids friend I’m not talking about the filioque, I never brought it to the table on the first place, what I maintain and I still do is that Photius died in communion with Rome. For all the controversial things he did, he was able to lift the two excommunications that the popes sent him
@@andresmaynez3060I think this has to do with Council of Constantinople IV (879-880)
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I’m afraid of death right now because I have no access to a proper church to be baptized
Technically speaking, anyone (even an atheist), can validly baptize you in an emergency. But why don't you have access?
Is craving death a catholic thing or am i just depressed.
It depends, and without knowing you I've no way of telling.
So Catholics don’t know if they will go heaven when they die? Doesn’t this contradict 1 John 5:13? “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.” Also the thief on the cross didn’t follow the steps you laid out to avoid purgatory. Yet Jesus said he would be with him that day in paradise. How does that work? Also why did Jesus speak so much about hell but never mention purgatory?
"you shall pay to the last farthing
Is purgatory
Also Maccabees 1 and 2 are about praying for the dead. Coincidentally those books are also about the recounting of Hanukkah, which Christ celebrated but the prots removed from the Bible on advice of the British govt.
Yes. Purgatory is in the Bible. No, literal interpretations of the Bible based on a bad protestant translation with removed chapters in a language 2000 years after the writing of said biblia with no understanding of the original Greek/Hebrew/latin does not a good argument make.
You are unironically using a Catholic book to hate on Catholics without a hint of irony - though to be fair yours probably has 7 books removed from it on authority of the British parliament
@@woofydawg1 I’m not hating. I’m asking for clarification. You’re attitude speaks volumes. You’re aggressive, defensive and condescending when I’m trying to understand what you believe and why. Really disappointing considering you call yourself a Christ follower.
As St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4, “ I do not even pass judgment on myself; I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord”. Though God may reveal to a particular saint that they will soon be with him in paradise, St. Paul shows us the cautious hope we should have in the face of God's mercy and the ugliness of our sins.
All that said, a state of grace is all that is required to achieve eternal life - the state of the newly baptized or those who have confessed after committing a mortal sin. We can be reasonably certain of achieving Heaven if we die in such a state, since God is not capricious and rewards acts of good will.
@@CatechesisVids Interesting reasoning. thank you for the response. God bless.
@@dog7881 If I may, I want you to remember two things when considering the Catholic position:
- Every single soul in purgatory is GUARANTEED Heaven. It's not a third destination, it's more like a "toll house" where even sinners may enter Heaven, but cannot do so immediately as they accumulated some debt after they became saved. It's a mercy of God, where souls who aren't ready nor deserving of Heaven (as they have acted dishonorably before God) may be saved because of their profound faith and love of God.
- Second, some souls don't go to purgatory at all. These either repented perfectly of their sins, or paid the debt in some way while on Earth. The thief on the cross could be said to have suffered enough. He also got direct assurance from the Lord that he is to pay nothing, and enter Heaven immediately, but it's not so for everyone, not even Paul apparently.
You should see this as a way to avoid sinning even in small things while you're on Earth. Also, repent of everything, and if you're Catholic remember you're bound by Church law to go to confession for extra assurance as soon as able.
Live a Christian life and don't take your justification for granted.