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Use Sacrifice Beads & Suffering to Help Your Loved Ones
Terri Thomas Terri Thomas

Use Sacrifice Beads & Suffering to Help Your Loved Ones

After Brett passed away, it seemed to me that God was giving me signs that he was saved (for which I am so grateful). I asked a priest, whom I knew was faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, if I could count on this. His answer I have never forgotten. It has helped me in so many ways even though it was difficult to hear at first!

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Purgatory: What's It All About?
Terri Thomas Terri Thomas

Purgatory: What's It All About?

God respects the free will of people on earth. We can consciously choose what to do and how to do it. But since the beginning of time people have used their free will to choose sin. It is the misuse of human free will that leads to moral evil, like greed, envy, lust, lying, gossip, anger, pride, etc., in our world.

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Sharing a Coke with Brett
Terri Thomas Terri Thomas

Sharing a Coke with Brett

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that: "Our prayer for them [those who have died] is capable not only of helping them, but also of making their intercession for us effective" (CCC, 958).

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Why I Continue to Pray for My Deceased Son
Terri Thomas Terri Thomas

Why I Continue to Pray for My Deceased Son

Isn't he already in Heaven?

My son died unexpectedly. It took him completely by surprise. Because of that, he did not have a chance to prepare or to do penance for his sins. That is where purgatory comes in and where I, as his mother, can do for him what he can no longer do for himself! It gives me joy to be able to help him this way.

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I Leave It in His Hands
Terri Thomas Terri Thomas

I Leave It in His Hands

"The sun could have not risen that day and it would have been less surprising than what actually happened." Sammie Wood, a mother of three, homemaker, and cattle rancher from Clayton, New Mexico, spoke through tears as she recalled the events of Aug. 10, 2014.

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Free Will & Heaven
Terri Thomas Terri Thomas

Free Will & Heaven

Even though we have been saved by Christ’s passion and death on the cross, we will not be able to enter heaven until we are fully able and willing not to sin and have learned how to completely align our will with God’s Will and doing only the good (not sin).

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