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Ah, you know how it is: These people are perpetually in search of victimhood, creating their own alternate reality with phantom persecutors around every corner.
So this Catholic priest claims that the souls of recently deceased people contact him in his dreams if they get stuck in the purgatory and then he and his prayer group help these souls get unstuck by praying for them.
Quote:Afterlife Interrupted: Priest helps souls who are stuck in purgatory
At least once a week, Roman Catholic priest Fr. Nathan Castle O.P., 69, is awakened by a vivid dream of a person’s death.
This tells him that the spirit of the deceased wants to move on but is trapped by their own issue. They’ve come to Castle for help.
“We think of ourselves — my prayer partners and I — as being the discharge staff at a medical center,” he said. “People die in lots of ways, but we get mostly the ones who die in a hurry, usually because of a trauma to the body and who needed to stay back a bit. Not everybody who dies in a car crash today will need this level.”
“The grandpa got his foot caught in something that was attached to the trailer. He was dragged not very far, but enough to hit his head and cause a hospitalization that ended in his death three days later.”
From the afterlife, the grandpa reached out to Castle.
Castle is very clear: He does not seek this out nor does he publicize any story that he does not have permission to tell.
He does not do readings and is not involved in the occult. He has prayer partners nationwide who take their spiritual lives seriously. They have a standing appointment once every two weeks to pray for the spirits of the people who have reached out.
Castle essentially relays messages.
“(The father and son) both felt very guilty,” he said. “The grandpa on the other side is saying, ‘They’re both grieving hard because they think it’s their fault and it was my fault. I was the one who didn’t watch where I put my foot,’” he recalled.
Catholics know this afterlife space as purgatory, but not the purgatory of the imagination or a Bosch painting. It’s a holding place where people get ready for the next step in their afterlife journey.
The first time Castle spoke with someone in the afterlife was when he was pastor of ASU’s Newman Center. He was on retreat and awoke from a dream —a vivid dream of a man on a radiator with his feet on the bumper of a late-model 1950s car. The man burst into flames.
The next morning, Castle and a friend, who had been a prayer partner and possessed the gift of prophetic speech, gathered to pray. The first thing they did was invoke protection through Michael the Archangel, Mary, various saints and the Holy Spirit.
“We don’t just dive into the spirit world unprotected,” he said.
https://www.phoenix.org/lovin_life/commu...e3765.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
