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Look at the Traditional interpretation of the Scriptures that Fathers refer to.
“For if on the foundation of Christ you have built not only gold and silver and precious stones (1 Cor.,3); but also wood and hay and stubble, what do you expect when the soul shall be separated from the body? Would you enter into heaven with your wood and hay and stubble and thus defile the kingdom of God; or on account of these hindrances would you remain without and receive no reward for your gold and silver and precious stones; neither is this just. It remains then that you be committed to the fire which will burn the light materials; for our God to those who can comprehend heavenly things is called a cleansing fire. But this fire consumes not the creature, but what the creature has himself built, wood, and hay and stubble. It is manifest that the fire destroys the wood of our transgressions and then returns to us the reward of our great works.” Origen, Homilies on Jeremias, PG 13:445, 448 ( A.D. 244).
“For to adulterers even a time of repentance is granted by us, and peace is given. Yet virginity is not therefore deficient in the Church, nor does the glorious design of continence languish through the sins of others. The Church, crowned with so many virgins, flourishes; and chastity and modesty preserve the tenor of their glory. Nor is the vigour of continence broken down because repentance and pardon are facilitated to the adulterer. It is one thing to stand for pardon, another thing to attain to glory: it is one thing, when cast into prison, not to go out thence until one has paid the uttermost farthing; another thing at once to receive the wages of faith and courage. It is one thing, tortured by long suffering for sins, to be cleansed and long purged by fire; another to have purged all sins by suffering. It is one thing, in fine, to be in suspense till the sentence of God at the day of judgment; another to be at once crowned by the Lord.” Cyprian, To Antonianus, Epistle 51 (55):20 (A.D. 253).
“If the baptized person fulfills the obligations demanded of a Christian, he does well. If he does not–provided he keeps the faith, without which he would perish forever–no matter in what sin or impurity remains, he will be saved, as it were, by fire; as one who has built on the foundation, which is Christ, not gold, silver, and precious stones, but wood, hay straw, that is, not just and chasted works but wicked and unchaste works.” Augustine, Faith and Works, 1:1 (A.D. 413).
“And it is not impossible that something of the same kind may take place even after this life. It is a matter that may be inquired into, and either ascertained or left doubtful, whether some believers shall pass through a kind of purgatorial fire, and in proportion as they have loved with more or less devotion the goods that perish, be less or more quickly delivered from it. This cannot, however, be the case of any of those of whom it is said, that they ‘shall not inherit the kingdom of God,’ unless after suitable repentance their sins be forgiven them. When I say ‘suitable,’ I mean that they are not to be unfruitful in almsgiving; for Holy Scripture lays so much stress on this virtue, that our Lord tells us beforehand, that He will ascribe no merit to those on His right hand but that they abound in it, and no defect to those on His left hand but their want of it, when He shall say to the former, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom,” and to the latter, ‘Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.'” Augustine, Enchiridion, 69 (A.D. 421).
The Fathers understand these Scriptures as it pertains to Purgatory, which has always been the Catholic and Apostolic understanding of Scripture handed down from the Apostles.
Besides this the evidence of Scripture and the Fathers, I know Purgatory is real, it’s no joke. Purgatory is real.
Restitution here is much easier, the restitutions we make by prayer and fasting for those in Purgatory go a long way to mitigate their sufferings, and the duration of their sufferings.
They live in the presence of the harm they did, in the light of the Perfection of what Jesus perfectly lived life in us would have done. That’s the best I can describe it.
Jesus is not just Judge, He is the model by which all are judged.
In Jesus Divinity, He lived all and each our lives perfectly before Father. Hard to understand I know.
The fire that purges us is the fire of Jesus Perfect Love.
Better to pay restitution in this life by Love, than by Raw Exposure to Perfect Love in the next, there is no mitigating shield of that light when soul is out of the body.
We must thank God for all the sufferings of our life, these sufferings endured with patience, love, trust and thanksgiving make restitution for our negligence in Love. The sufferings allowed us by God are a great love and kindness, as painful as they are.
God will not diminish His Light to suit us, we must be made fit for His Light.
Purgatory is where the stubble burned, people are saved but only as through fire.
Better to do our Purgatory here in this world though.
