Purging Fire

Fr. Seraiah
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“When he has quitted his body and the difference between virtue and vice is known he cannot approach God till the purging fire shall have cleansed the stains with which his soul was infested. That same fire [of love] in [the prayers of] others will cancel the corruption of matter, and the propensity to evil.”

St. Gregory of Nyssa

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