“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.”  2 Cortinthians 4:17

This morning at Mass I had what I can only say was an experience of a Priest who I used to know who passed away several years ago. It is not the same Priest that I dreamt about in years past. This Priest, like the one in the dream, did not preach truth. He did not believe in hell. He advocated for gay marriage and contraception. There were many other things he did that I will not go into here. I will also not state his name publicly because though I feel what happened to me at Mass came from heaven, it is not for me to be telling people where souls have ended up. I am not God. I would ask though that you pray to God for this Priest. God knows his name and his grace covers the details.

So while I was at Mass this morning, during the consecration and Eucharistic prayers while praying with my eyes closed, I was very overwhelmed with the presence of this Priest, who I really had not thought about in a long time until yesterday. I could see him weeping. I knew he was in purgatory and at a very low level in purgatory. In fact, it felt like hell but I knew it was not. He was being made to witness the Passion of Christ. The scourging, the crowning with thorns, the crucifixion. Over and over, like a continuous loop from Holy Thursday to Good Friday. He wept and he wept. Wailing actually.

I asked the Lord what was happening and the response I received was this, he did not speak rightly of me. I did not come to die and take away your sins so you could be taught to remain in sin.” I asked if my prayers for him would matter. “Yes, everything for me is grace and mercy. He won’t be released though until I say so.”

I knew that this Priest would be in hell if not for prayers for him specifically by those in authority and of the faithful, and of course for the mercy of God, which is unfathomable. I sensed this Priest would not be released from purgatory for a long while, though only God knows.

I believe I was shown this so people will pray. But I also believe I was shown this because our eternal salvation is not something to mess around with. Jesus meant what he said in scripture, no matter what the world tells you.

This particular suffering in purgatory makes sense to me for a Priest who defies teaching. The purification of his soul involves really understanding what Jesus went through to save us. He did not really know who Jesus was and is. But now, in being made to watch the Passion, he does.

Take your salvation seriously and cooperate with God to be purified here. As the Saints tell us all the suffering here amounts to very little compared to a suffering soul in purgatory.

I cried at Mass today because of seeing this. It is excruciating to be separated from God. I have had Masses said for this Priests soul. Please God, purify your people. Let us know you, love you and serve you in this life so we can be with you in the next.

 Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives.  Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions. But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and if he begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in pieces,and put him with the unfaithful. That slave who knew what his master wanted, but did not prepare himself or do what was wanted, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded. Luke 12:43-48