Eyewitness accounts of encounters with ghosts from purgatory

[Michie]

*You are in the Catholic forum*

Not only do saints appear to people occasionally- history also records visitations of those in purgatory.

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Eyewitness Accounts of Encounters With Ghosts From Purgatory

 

[Lady Bug]

My question is how can we tell a soul in purgatory from a demon? Can we feel comfortable with the certainty that since the entity is asking you to pray to God, that it's from purgatory?

 

[Michie]

Here’s How You Can Help the Holy Souls in Purgatory

 

[Michie]

Does God Allow Souls in Purgatory to Visit the Living? - Catholic Stand

 

[Basil the Great]

Ghosts don't exist. Demons do. And "history" can be fabricated.

There appears to be considerable evidence that ghosties do exist, namely, the souls of human beings that for whatever reason, are trapped between this world and the next. Many have reported seeing spirits that they recognize, sometimes they are deceased family members or friends. It is possible that some of these ghosts are in Purgatory and maybe some are afraid of leaving the Earth, for fear that they may go to Hell.

 

[Basil the Great]

My question is how can we tell a soul in purgatory from a demon? Can we feel comfortable with the certainty that since the entity is asking you to pray to God, that it's from purgatory?

Good questions and no easy answers.

 

[Michie]

The last article I posted goes into this.

 

[Michie]

The Catholic articles I posted go into this. Please read them.

 

[Michie]

From the CCC which is backed up by Scripture:

All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or to demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretations of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers, they contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear we owe to God alone.
(CCC, 2116)

 

[Michie]

There many Biblical basis for our belief that Purgatory exists, and it not my purpose here to attempt to prove this doctrine. Belief in Purgatory is firmly established in the Christian Tradition...

 

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[Lady Bug]

The last article I posted goes into this.

I think I can get a feeling for the difference (based on how the article describes the person in purgatory who was asking the person on earth to pray for him). It makes purgatory all the more convincing though, but I wish it weren't something I was frightened of.

 

[Michie]

I think I can get a feeling for the difference (based on how the article describes the person in purgatory who was asking the person on earth to pray for him). It makes purgatory all the more convincing though, but I wish it weren't something I was frightened of.

Right! And it's not an everyday occurrence. It would frighten me too. But I guess Padre Pio dealt with this a lot.

 

[Chrystal-J]

I think the difference between seeing a demon and seeing something holy is that the holy entity will lead you to God and the demon to some type of negativity. Demons don't like prayer, holy water and bible verses. When my son's house had a demon in it (they could see it walking around their living room), I took my bible over there with some holy water. We prayed the rosary together, then a novena. I read from the bible out loud. My daughter-in-law said the demon left and never returned.

 

[Michie]

Do Catholics Believe in Ghosts? – IGNITUM TODAY

 

[Michie]

Bumping it up for @Lady Bug.

 

[Lady Bug]

Thanks so much Michie. That's the exact thread I was looking for.

p.s. I clicked the wrong rating at first. Hope you didn't notice lol.

 

[Michie]

Thanks so much Michie. That's the exact thread I was looking for.

p.s. I clicked the wrong rating at first. Hope you didn't notice lol.

I did not notice.