Part 1, Chapter 25: Duration of Purgatory - The Abbey of Latrobe - A Hundred Years of Suffering for Delay in the Reception of the Last Sacraments

"A too frequent cause of the long continuance of Purgatory is that many deprive themselves of a great means established by Jesus Christ for shortening it, by delaying, when dangerously sick, to receive the last Sacraments. These Sacraments, destined to prepare souls for their last journey, to purify them from the remains of sin, and to spare them the pains of the other life, require, in order to produce their effects, that the sick person receive them with the requisite dispositions. Now, the longer they are deferred, and the faculties of the sick person allowed to become weak, the more defective do those dispositions become. What do I say? Very often it happens, in consequence of this imprudent delay, that the sick person dies deprived of this absolutely necessary help. The result is, that if the deceased is not damned, he is plunged into the deepest abysses of Purgatory, loaded with all the weight of his debts."

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"Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen."

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Source:

"Purgatory: Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the Saints" by Rev. F. X. Schouppe

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