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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/34557-0.txt b/34557-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..baf526a --- /dev/null +++ b/34557-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,572 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Happiness in Purgatory, by Anonymous + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Happiness in Purgatory + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Very Reverend Augustine Francis Hewit, CSP + +Release Date: December 3, 2010 [EBook #34557] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY *** + + + + +Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose + + + + + + + + +HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY. + + Published April, 1897, + + in + + THE CATHOLIC WORLD + + A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science + + + +HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY. + +IT may be said of Purgatory that if it did not exist it would have to be +created, so eminently is it in accord with the dictates of reason and +common sense. The natural instinct of travellers at their journey's end +is to seek for rest and change of attire. Some are begrimed with mud, +others have caught the dust of a scorching summer day; the heat or cold +or damp of the journey has told upon them and their attire. Perhaps, +even, the way has made them weary unto sickness, and they crave for an +interval of absolute repose. + +Travellers from earth, covered with the mud and dust of its long road, +could never wish to enter the banquet-room of eternity in their +travel-stained garments. "Take me away!" cried Gerontius to his angel. +It was a cry of anguish as well as desire, for Gerontius, blessed soul +though he is, could not face heaven just as earth had left him. He has +the true instinct of the traveller at his journey's end. Dust, rust, and +the moth have marked their presence, and even the oddities and +eccentricities of earthly pilgrimage must be obliterated before the home +of eternity can be entered. _De mortuis nil nisi bonum_ is interpreted, +nothing short of heaven for those who have crossed the bourne. But, if +the heavenly gates are thrown open to the travellers all weary and +footsore, "not having on a nuptial garment," no heterogeneous meeting +here on earth could compete with the gathering of disembodied spirits +from its four quarters. It is human ignorance alone which canonizes all +the departed, and insists on a direct passage from time to heaven. The +canonization is not ratified in heaven, because heaven would not exist +if it took place. The Beatific Vision is incompatible with the shadow of +imperfection. To act as if it were belongs to the same order of things +as rending the garment of Christian unity. + +Purgatory makes heaven, in the sense that heaven would not be possible +for men without it. As well might we try to reach a far-off planet, +which is absolutely removed from our sphere, an unknown quantity, though +a fact science does not dispute. Heaven without Purgatory is a far-off +planet which must ever remain beyond our touch and ken, for it would be +easier that we in our present condition should traverse space than that +the sinner should see God face to face. + +The vestibule of heaven, in which souls tarry in order to make their +preparations, and to be prepared for the feast of eternity, can scarcely +be an abode of pure suffering. Heart and mind, as they exist in the +_anima separata_--that is, understanding and love--are at rest. On earth +mind and heart are the source of the greatest pain as well as the +greatest joy. The severest pain of body may be accompanied by happiness +and a mind at rest, whereas remorse makes life unbearable. Hidden +criminals at large have not unfrequently given themselves up to justice +in order to arrive at peace by a public execution, that being the +penalty demanded by their tortured conscience. Death, however +ignominious, rather than remorse--the backbite of inwit, in the quaint +language of our forefathers. Remorse is not in the organs of sense, but +a purely intellectual operation, proper to man. It cannot be softened by +worldly prosperity or riches, fame or success. On the other hand, a good +conscience is a well-spring of happiness, be the outward circumstances +of a man's life what they may. Bodily pain would add to the torture of +remorse, just as it might deaden the joy of a good conscience, _per +accidens_, as theologians say. Conjointly with the mind, the heart +causes the keenest sufferings and the deepest joys of human life, joys +and sufferings which are acted upon in the same way indirectly by pain +of body. A severe toothache, for instance, quickens the pangs of +remorse, whilst it deadens joy proceeding either from the intellect or +the heart. It would madden a bride on her wedding morning, without in +reality affecting her happiness. The root of both joy and grief is in +the soul, not in the body. Conscience is the "worm which never +dieth"--that is, hell, the torment created by man himself for his own +punishment. The same applies to Purgatory, as far as conscience has been +sinned against. The soul has created its own torment, but in Purgatory +the fires die out because they deal with the _anima separata_, never +with the senses. In each case the nature of the fire, which may not be +material and is exercised on spirits, must remain mysterious to us. At +least we can understand it by analogy. Remorse in the tortured soul of a +murderer is sufficient to destroy the prosperous and pampered life of +the body. Intensify it by the measure of eternity, and it may alone +constitute hell. That is probably what theologians mean when they say +that the fire of hell and that of Purgatory are identical. What fire is +to the body, that burning sorrow is to the spirit, who sees things in +their true light, and weighs lost opportunities in the balance of the +next world. + +By sorrow and love earth shows us the material, to speak in human +language, out of which Purgatory is made. The pangs of remorse deaden +the most intense bodily pain, and the power of love does more than +render hard things sweet. _Many waters cannot quench charity, neither +can the floods drown it_, says the voice of love in the Canticles. +Whether human or divine, it is as a burning fire, which consumes all +minor cares. I will not deal with passion, but with love in its noblest +form and expression; the love, for instance, of a mother, or of a wife, +or of an affianced bride. Earth has nothing better in the natural order +than disinterested affection, a foreshadowing of Purgatory as much as +the torture of remorse. Sin will not be there, neither will +money-making; love will be the coin of the realm. _Non subtrahuntur +deliciæ sed mutantur_. As the action of purification is perfected, each +human intelligence in Purgatory will be more and more fixed on God. The +soul disengaged from the senses will learn all the more promptly the +lesson of Purgatory, if it has not been learnt here, the perfect love of +God. There is joy in suffering under these conditions, a joy which makes +pain acceptable. A _promessa sposa_ will be patient with sudden illness, +and racking pain, if they promise to be temporary. She can afford to be +so as long as her heart is fixed on the wedding day. The _sposo_, indeed, +may weary of a sick affianced bride, and court another. This can happen +in human things, but never in Purgatory. The souls there are fixed on +the Unchangeable One, who can never prove them false; so be the +suffering what it may, they can afford to bide his time, secure that the +reward of their heart's long watching will never pass away. Their +wedding day is far removed from the vicissitudes of earth, and the +fever-tossed brides may suffer in perfect peace. + +On earth it is more difficult to unlearn than to learn afresh, and it +must be feared that to the great majority Purgatory is an unlearning. +The idols, the false standards of the world must be swept away. In the +first instant of eternity the soul has an intuitive perception of her +errors. It may be likened to arrival in a foreign land, of which the +language has been badly learnt at home. English-French will serve as a +comparison. It is very soon proved to be no French at all. The foreigner +immediately says: "I am all wrong. I must begin again." He had much +better have learnt no French--at least his professor will think so--for +he has to unlearn more than he learns, his expressions, his quantities, +his pronunciation. Fully aware as he now is of his shortcomings, the +work of imparting real knowledge will take time. + +We say that knowledge is power. In Purgatory it is love; and who can +call the process of arriving at it all painful, even if accompanied by +torments? It is the burst of eternal day, coming gradually to those who +ascend the steep mountain-side of Purgatory. + +In it, as in the Father's house, there are many mansions. Whilst the +saint may be punished with the pain of loss only, the sinner may be +racked with fiery torments, "saved yet so as by fire." Whatever the +"mansion," the suffering proceeds from the same cause, varying in +degree: remorse for the past, love of God in the present. That which on +earth causes our torture and our joy is prolonged in Purgatory, with +this difference: _Here_ our minds and hearts are unquiet because they +are not fixed on God: _there_ knowledge and love will be first +established on their true centre, and then perfected. + +There is one single and unique instance of purgatory on earth--not +purgatory in the loose sense in which the expression is often used. +Suffering by itself is not synonymous with Purgatory. There must be the +absolute certainty of heaven, which has been given only once. _Amen, +Amen, I say to thee, this day shalt thou be with me in paradise_. The +word was spoken by our Lord himself to one in fearful torture and +ignominy. Was the good thief conscious of pain with that divine promise +ringing in his dying ears? It may well be doubted. + +He has spoken the same word to each of the holy souls: "Thou shalt be +with me in paradise"; and they are so moulded to his will that his hour +is theirs. They long to hear _this day_, but the security of Our Lord's +promise tempers their suffering and puts it far above all pains and +sorrows of earth. Who would not submit to be crucified, if _To-day thou +shalt be with me in paradise_ were the reward? Yet a state of +crucifixion and perfect security is that of the souls whose blessedness +exceeds their torments. + +These thoughts may possibly suggest comfort to some who confuse +suffering with unhappiness. They are not synonymous. Let us rather think +of the holy souls as in the condition of the good thief. If they are +suffering the torments of crucifixion they have heard the word which is +to be their joy through eternity: _Thou shalt be with me in paradise!_ + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Happiness in Purgatory, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY *** + +***** This file should be named 34557-0.txt or 34557-0.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/4/5/5/34557/ + +Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Happiness in Purgatory + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Very Reverend Augustine Francis Hewit, CSP + +Release Date: December 3, 2010 [EBook #34557] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY *** + + + + +Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose + + + + + +</pre> + + <h1> + HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY. + </h1><br> + <br> + <p align="center"> + Published April, 1897,<br> + in + </p> + <h2> + THE CATHOLIC WORLD + </h2> + <h3> + A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science + </h3><br> + <br> + <br> + <h1> + HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY. + </h1> + <p> + <img src="images/I.jpg" alt="I" align="left">T may be + said of Purgatory that if it did not exist it would + have to be created, so eminently is it in accord with + the dictates of reason and common sense. The natural + instinct of travellers at their journey's end is to + seek for rest and change of attire. Some are begrimed + with mud, others have caught the dust of a scorching + summer day; the heat or cold or damp of the journey has + told upon them and their attire. Perhaps, even, the way + has made them weary unto sickness, and they crave for + an interval of absolute repose. + </p> + <p> + Travellers from earth, covered with the mud and dust of + its long road, could never wish to enter the + banquet-room of eternity in their travel-stained + garments. "Take me away!" cried Gerontius to his angel. + It was a cry of anguish as well as desire, for + Gerontius, blessed soul though he is, could not face + heaven just as earth had left him. He has the true + instinct of the traveller at his journey's end. Dust, + rust, and the moth have marked their presence, and even + the oddities and eccentricities of earthly pilgrimage + must be obliterated before the home of eternity can be + entered. <i>De mortuis nil nisi bonum</i> is + interpreted, nothing short of heaven for those who have + crossed the bourne. But, if the heavenly gates are + thrown open to the travellers all weary and footsore, + "not having on a nuptial garment," no heterogeneous + meeting here on earth could compete with the gathering + of disembodied spirits from its four quarters. It is + human ignorance alone which canonizes all the departed, + and insists on a direct passage from time to heaven. + The canonization is not ratified in heaven, because + heaven would not exist if it took place. The Beatific + Vision is incompatible with the shadow of imperfection. + To act as if it were belongs to the same order of + things as rending the garment of Christian unity. + </p> + <p> + Purgatory makes heaven, in the sense that heaven would + not be possible for men without it. As well might we + try to reach a far-off planet, which is absolutely + removed from our sphere, an unknown quantity, though a + fact science does not dispute. Heaven without Purgatory + is a far-off planet which must ever remain beyond our + touch and ken, for it would be easier that we in our + present condition should traverse space than that the + sinner should see God face to face. + </p> + <p> + The vestibule of heaven, in which souls tarry in order + to make their preparations, and to be prepared for the + feast of eternity, can scarcely be an abode of pure + suffering. Heart and mind, as they exist in the + <i>anima separata</i>—that is, understanding and + love—are at rest. On earth mind and heart are the + source of the greatest pain as well as the greatest + joy. The severest pain of body may be accompanied by + happiness and a mind at rest, whereas remorse makes + life unbearable. Hidden criminals at large have not + unfrequently given themselves up to justice in order to + arrive at peace by a public execution, that being the + penalty demanded by their tortured conscience. Death, + however ignominious, rather than remorse—the + backbite of inwit, in the quaint language of our + forefathers. Remorse is not in the organs of sense, but + a purely intellectual operation, proper to man. It + cannot be softened by worldly prosperity or riches, + fame or success. On the other hand, a good conscience + is a well-spring of happiness, be the outward + circumstances of a man's life what they may. Bodily + pain would add to the torture of remorse, just as it + might deaden the joy of a good conscience, <i>per + accidens</i>, as theologians say. Conjointly with the + mind, the heart causes the keenest sufferings and the + deepest joys of human life, joys and sufferings which + are acted upon in the same way indirectly by pain of + body. A severe toothache, for instance, quickens the + pangs of remorse, whilst it deadens joy proceeding + either from the intellect or the heart. It would madden + a bride on her wedding morning, without in reality + affecting her happiness. The root of both joy and grief + is in the soul, not in the body. Conscience is the + "worm which never dieth"—that is, hell, the + torment created by man himself for his own punishment. + The same applies to Purgatory, as far as conscience has + been sinned against. The soul has created its own + torment, but in Purgatory the fires die out because + they deal with the <i>anima separata</i>, never with + the senses. In each case the nature of the fire, which + may not be material and is exercised on spirits, must + remain mysterious to us. At least we can understand it + by analogy. Remorse in the tortured soul of a murderer + is sufficient to destroy the prosperous and pampered + life of the body. Intensify it by the measure of + eternity, and it may alone constitute hell. That is + probably what theologians mean when they say that the + fire of hell and that of Purgatory are identical. What + fire is to the body, that burning sorrow is to the + spirit, who sees things in their true light, and weighs + lost opportunities in the balance of the next world. + </p> + <p> + By sorrow and love earth shows us the material, to + speak in human language, out of which Purgatory is + made. The pangs of remorse deaden the most intense + bodily pain, and the power of love does more than + render hard things sweet. <i>Many waters cannot quench + charity, neither can the floods drown it</i>, says the + voice of love in the Canticles. Whether human or + divine, it is as a burning fire, which consumes all + minor cares. I will not deal with passion, but with + love in its noblest form and expression; the love, for + instance, of a mother, or of a wife, or of an affianced + bride. Earth has nothing better in the natural order + than disinterested affection, a foreshadowing of + Purgatory as much as the torture of remorse. Sin will + not be there, neither will money-making; love will be + the coin of the realm. <i>Non subtrahuntur + deliciæ sed mutantur</i>. As the action of + purification is perfected, each human intelligence in + Purgatory will be more and more fixed on God. The soul + disengaged from the senses will learn all the more + promptly the lesson of Purgatory, if it has not been + learnt here, the perfect love of God. There is joy in + suffering under these conditions, a joy which makes + pain acceptable. A <i>promessa sposa</i> will be + patient with sudden illness, and racking pain, if they + promise to be temporary. She can afford to be so as + long as her heart is fixed on the wedding day. The + <i>sposo</i>, indeed, may weary of a sick affianced + bride, and court another. This can happen in human + things, but never in Purgatory. The souls there are + fixed on the Unchangeable One, who can never prove them + false; so be the suffering what it may, they can afford + to bide his time, secure that the reward of their + heart's long watching will never pass away. Their + wedding day is far removed from the vicissitudes of + earth, and the fever-tossed brides may suffer in + perfect peace. + </p> + <p> + On earth it is more difficult to unlearn than to learn + afresh, and it must be feared that to the great + majority Purgatory is an unlearning. The idols, the + false standards of the world must be swept away. In the + first instant of eternity the soul has an intuitive + perception of her errors. It may be likened to arrival + in a foreign land, of which the language has been badly + learnt at home. English-French will serve as a + comparison. It is very soon proved to be no French at + all. The foreigner immediately says: "I am all wrong. I + must begin again." He had much better have learnt no + French—at least his professor will think + so—for he has to unlearn more than he learns, his + expressions, his quantities, his pronunciation. Fully + aware as he now is of his shortcomings, the work of + imparting real knowledge will take time. + </p> + <p> + We say that knowledge is power. In Purgatory it is + love; and who can call the process of arriving at it + all painful, even if accompanied by torments? It is the + burst of eternal day, coming gradually to those who + ascend the steep mountain-side of Purgatory. + </p> + <p> + In it, as in the Father's house, there are many + mansions. Whilst the saint may be punished with the + pain of loss only, the sinner may be racked with fiery + torments, "saved yet so as by fire." Whatever the + "mansion," the suffering proceeds from the same cause, + varying in degree: remorse for the past, love of God in + the present. That which on earth causes our torture and + our joy is prolonged in Purgatory, with this + difference: <i>Here</i> our minds and hearts are + unquiet because they are not fixed on God: <i>there</i> + knowledge and love will be first established on their + true centre, and then perfected. + </p> + <p> + There is one single and unique instance of purgatory on + earth—not purgatory in the loose sense in which + the expression is often used. Suffering by itself is + not synonymous with Purgatory. There must be the + absolute certainty of heaven, which has been given only + once. <i>Amen, Amen, I say to thee, this day shalt thou + be with me in paradise</i>. The word was spoken by our + Lord himself to one in fearful torture and ignominy. + Was the good thief conscious of pain with that divine + promise ringing in his dying ears? It may well be + doubted. + </p> + <p> + He has spoken the same word to each of the holy souls: + "Thou shalt be with me in paradise"; and they are so + moulded to his will that his hour is theirs. They long + to hear <i>this day</i>, but the security of Our Lord's + promise tempers their suffering and puts it far above + all pains and sorrows of earth. Who would not submit to + be crucified, if <i>To-day thou shalt be with me in + paradise</i> were the reward? Yet a state of + crucifixion and perfect security is that of the souls + whose blessedness exceeds their torments. + </p> + <p> + These thoughts may possibly suggest comfort to some who + confuse suffering with unhappiness. They are not + synonymous. Let us rather think of the holy souls as in + the condition of the good thief. If they are suffering + the torments of crucifixion they have heard the word + which is to be their joy through eternity: <i>Thou + shalt be with me in paradise!</i> + </p> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Happiness in Purgatory, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY *** + +***** This file should be named 34557-h.htm or 34557-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/4/5/5/34557/ + +Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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