Purgatory is it in the bible?
That is the question many people ask. After death comes judgement.Heb.9:27.The sentence that cannot be changed-the judgement.The reward must be heaven, purgatory or hell according to one’s deed. Yes many Christians do not believe that purgatory does exist. They believe that after death one goes to heaven or hell, but we Catholic believe that there is purgatory.
According to the Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary, it means the condition after death in which the soul is purified in preparation for heaven, a place of temporary suffering. The word “Purgatory” comes from the word “purgation” meaning to purge, removal of something bad or undesirable.
Invariably, purgatory means a place where souls of the dead are purified or assisted by the prayers of the living before they are fit to enter heaven. Souls in purgatory belong to the Church suffering, then the living or the faithful on earth are the Church militants while those in heaven are known as the Church triumphant. That is why we have the communion of saints for we are one body in Jesus Christ.
The suffering in purgatory is less or more intense proportioned to the penalty which souls must expiate, still it is a place of great hope where the love of God is so intensive and that the face of not being able to see the Almighty God face to face becomes the greatest pain.