Part 4, Chapter 2: On the Joys of Heaven.

"Now that we have meditated upon the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of God, we will proceed to consider the happiness which the Saints who dwell therein enjoy, both in regard to body and soul. It is true as yet they have not their bodies, as a general rule, but at the Last Day they will all have them again, and those bodies will then be so beauteous, that nothing in the world can compare with them. And this will principally be because every member will be endowed with four qualities or attributes, namely: beauty, impassibility, agility, and subtlety. By reason of its beauty or glory the body of each one of the elect will shine like a star, yet, as one star differs from another in glory, so the Saints will shine with greater or less splendour, according as their lives upon earth have been more or less holy."

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Part 1, Chapter 28: Matter of Expiation - The Remains of Mortal Sin - Lord Stourton - Sins of Lust not fully Expiated upon Earth - St. Lidwina

"We have said that the total amount of the debt of suffering for Purgatory comes from all the faults not atoned for upon earth, but especially from mortal sins remitted to their guilt. Now men who pass their whole lives in a habitual state of mortal sin, and who delay their conversion until death, supposing that God grants them that rare grace, will have to undergo the most frightful punishment."

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

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Part 4, Chapter 1: On the Nature of Heaven

"We must not, as some do, picture to ourselves Heaven as a purely spiritual realm. For Heaven is a definite place, where not only God is, and the Angels now are, but where Christ is also in His sacred humanity, and Our Lady with her human body. There, too, all the blessed will dwell with their glorified bodies after the Last Judgment. If Heaven is a definite locality, it must accordingly be a visible, not a spiritual kingdom ; for a place must in its nature be to some extent conformable to those who abide in it."

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Part 1, Chapter 27: The Cause of Suffering - Matter of the Expiation of Purgatory - Doctrine of Suarez - St. Catherine of Genoa

"Why must souls thus suffer before being admitted to see the face of God? What is the matter, what is the subject of these expiations? What has the fire of Purgatory to purify, to consume in them? It is, say the doctors, the stains left by their sins.

But what is here understood by stains? According to most theologians, it is not the guilt of sin, but the pain or the debt of pain proceeding from sin. To understand this well, we must remember that sin produces a double effect on the soul, which we call the debt (reatus) of guilt and the debt of pain; it renders the soul not only guilty, but deserving of pain or chastisement. Now, after the guilt is pardoned, it generally happens that the pain remains to be undergone, either entirely or in part, and this must be endured either in the present life or in the life to come."

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Part 1, Chapter 26: Duration of Purgatory - Venerable Catherine Paluzzi and Sister Bernardine - Brothers Finetti and Rudolfini - St. Peter Claver and the two Poor Women

"We shall see therein that Divine Justice is relatively severe towards souls called to perfection, and who have received much grace. Does not Jesus Christ say in the Gospel, Unto whom much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more?"

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Part 3, Chapter 8: On Eternity

"The torments of Hell are all so horrible, so appalling, that they are enough to make the bravest man tremble. But the thought of eternity is so awful that the serious consideration of it is almost enough to deprive one of one s senses. For in this world, however afflicted a man may be, he has one sure source of solace, the knowledge that, sooner or later, his misery will end."

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"The Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Hell, Heaven" by Fr. Martin Von Cochem

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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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"And his name shall be called Emmanuel." (Is. vii. 14.)

" The Saviour is born for us, a Saviour who will deliver us from sin, and from the thraldom of Satan, who reconciles us to God and opens heaven unto us. What this Saviour is His name tells us, that the prophet Isaias announced: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and His name shall be called Emmanuel, God with us." Yes, God with us, that is the meaning of the joyful message of the angel: God with us in His humanity, in His childhood, in His poverty. This is what we will contemplate, dearly beloved; His name shall be called Emmanuel, God with us."

Sermon for "The Nativity of Our Lord: God With Us" by St. Jean-Marie Vianney

0:00 - Introduction

3:04 - God with us in His humanity.

14:00 - God with us in His childhood.

19:48 - God with us in His poverty.

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"Sermons for the Sundays and Feasts of the Year" by St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney (the Curé d'Ars). New York; 1901.

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Part 3, Chapter 7: The Worm that Dieth Not

"Our Divine Saviour says: "If thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than, having two hands, to go into Hell, into the fire that cannot be quenched, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished. And if thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter lame into life, than, having two feet, to be cast into the Hell of unquenchable fire, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out; it is better for thee with one eye to enter the kingdom of God, than, having two eyes, to be cast into the Hell of fire, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished" (Mark ix. 42-47)."

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Part 1, Chapter 24: Duration of Purgatory - The Duellist - Father Schoofs and the Apparition at Antwerp

"The following example shows not only the long duration of the punishment inflicted for certain faults, but also the difficulty of inclining Divine Justice in favour of those who have committed faults of this nature."

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