"Were you told that PURGATORY DOES NOT EXIST? [1 Part - 1/4]

"Were you told that PURGATORY DOES NOT EXIST? 

[1 Part - 1/4] 

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✔ The existence of Purgatory is dogma of faith [1-2]. It was defined in the Councils of Lyons and Florence [3]. Also at the Council of Trent [4].

✔ "Already in the second century the Eucharist was offered for the dead" [5].

✔ The Second Book of Maccabees (12, 43-46) states that the dead are freed from their sins by alms giving. This confirms the existence of purgatory.

This is so clear that Protestants, to deny the existence of purgatory are forced to deny the authenticity of this text.

✔ However the Church since the beginning, has considered this text as inspired, ratifying it in the Third Council of Carthage (canon 47) [6].

✔ The very Jesus in Matthew 24, 15-16 is quoting the book of Maccabees, specifically chapter 5, verses 24-27; and Chapter 6, verses 1-3 [Dn 9.27 and Psalm 74, 1 to 10 also talk about these Maccabees passages]
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES:
[1] New Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1030.
[2] Denzinger: Magisterium of the Church, nº693. Ed. Herder. Barcelona.
[3] Denzinger: Magisterium of the Church, nº464 and 693 Herder. Barcelona.
[4] Denzinger: Magisterium of the Church, nº840. Ed. Herder. Barcelona.
[5] FRANCISCO DE MIER. Betting on the eternal, IV, 1 Ed. St. Paul. Madrid. 1997.
[6] SAINT FRANCIS OF SALES: Meditations on the Church, 3rd, II, 5. Ed. BAC. Madrid, 1985.
Taken from: Father JORGE LORING.
Translation: Pedro Sanchez
Date: 09.26.2014.

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