Every new chum had to undergo the purgatorial experience of having his palms blistered and re-blistered until continued contact with the handles of pick and shovel made them horny.
It should be believed that for some light faults there is a purgatorial fire before the judgment.
Some believers, he taught, may pass through purgatorial fires; and this middle class may be helped by the sacraments and the alms of the living.
Later, in the purgatorial life it again passes before the spiritual vision of the man, who then experiences the exact feeling of those whom he has wronged.
In the first heaven there is a class who have not had anypurgatorial existence and who lead a particularly joyous life: the children.
Nevertheless, there are many in the purgatorial regions who go to all bothers of housekeeping, eating and drinking just as we do here.
Miss Nightingale's meditations, written in the purgatorial stage, are many and poignant.
The monastic ideal had its inception in the thought of sin as entailing either purgatorial or everlasting punishment, and in the thought of holiness as ensuring eternal bliss.
Sins unatoned for and uncondoned bring purgatorial or perpetual torment after death, even as holiness brings eternal bliss.
It also atones for sins, and lessens the purgatorial period after death; this is another.
What she has accomplished was made possible by the fear of purgatorial torments, by slavish dread of her mysterious powers, by ambition and bigotry.
He impersonated the departed in their agonies in purgatory, he made the people hear the pitiful moaning of the victims in the purgatorial fires, and transmitted their heartrending appeals for speedy help to the living.
If any one washes once in the lake, the sins of his forefathers are forgiven, and their souls are relieved from purgatorial fires.
But the influence of these passages can, in any case, only be traced in her Purgatorial doctrine, and had better be discussed together with this doctrine itself.
And similarly Catherine’s conversion-experience has been found by us to determine the sequence and all the chief points of her Purgatorial teaching, some thirty-seven years after that supreme event.
It is not incredible that some such thing takes place even after this life … that some of the faithful are saved by a certain purgatorial fire, more quickly or more slowly, according as they have less or more loved perishable things.
Dante's plan of Purgatorial punishment makes no distinction between the punishment put forth for unforgiven venial sin and that due in satisfaction for the violation of the moral order by one whose guilt has been remitted.
In the poem of Owayne Miles,[543] which forms part of this material, we find a poetical description of the purgatorial initiatory rites quite comparable to Virgil's account of Aeneas on his initiatory journey to Hades.
In the Breton Pardons, as in the purgatorial rites, we seem to see the survivals of very ancient Celtic Mysteries strikingly like the Mysteries of Eleusis.
Once I bartered myself away at the altar, and gave my name and hand for wealth, for aristocratic antecedents, for fashionable status, and five years of purgatorial misery was the richly merited penalty for the insult I offered my heart.
She supplied the place of father, mother, husband, society, and because God saw that her loving sympathy and care made my existence a trifle less purgatorial than He saw fit to render it, He took her away.
Then for a long time afterwards prayers continue to be recited by the priests, the object being to propitiate Yama, god of Death, and to deliver the deceased from the possible purgatorial torments of one of the hells.
In regard to the Buddhist doctrine of terrific purgatorial torments in some of the numerous Hells see p.
But when Spurrier had, in a little time as the watch recorded it, served out his purgatorial sentence, he sensed a stir in the massed banks of the laurel and thrust his rifle barrel outward in preparation for welcome.
Indeed, none but Dante has more poignantly expressed the purgatorial passion, the desire for pain, which makes the spirits in the flames of purification unwilling to intermit their torments even for a moment.
And let him not fancy that there are any purgatorial pains except before that final and dreadful judgment.
But this question of purgatorialpunishments we must defer to another time, to give it a more adequate treatment.
How the laggard moments pass In purgatorial doles!
Those families which say the Rosary every day need not add another decade unless they choose, but may say the Rosary in union with the Purgatorial Association, and thus gain the benefits for themselves and the faithful departed.
The apportionment of the punishment to the sin is another source of invention which is found in the purgatorial state, and is highly favorable to the sentimental.
I cannot feel consoled so long as I know that the soul of my friend is suffering so much in the Purgatorial fire.
The fettered spirits linger In purgatorial pain, With penal fires effacing Their last faint earthly stain, Which Life's imperfect sorrow Had tried to cleanse in vain.
It is from the smallest spark of this purgatorial fire that they suffer more intense pains than all the fires of this world put together could produce.
That their souls may be swiftly sped Through the valley ofpurgatorial fire, To a heavenly home by the gate called Desire!
Anger, on the purgatorial mountain, is in like manner imaged, because of its blindness and wildness, by the Alpine clouds.
Ghirlandajo, is pretty illustrative of Dante's idea of terraces on the purgatorial mountain.
