Seven day of the Novena

The Church teach that before to see God: Revelation 21:27: “But nothing unclean shall enter in to the Kingdom of God.

First, a distinction must be made between blame and punishment. When we sin, that is, when we do wrong against God, ourselves, or others, the guilt is our responsibility for that sin. The penalty, however, is the consequence of that sin. In confession, God blots out the guilt of our sins, and He also forgives some of the eternal punishment that we should serve after death because of those sins.

Sin, unrepented, is punished in Hell. Purgatory is the realm where souls who have repented their sins and are saved now purge themselves of the inclinations that caused the sins for which they repented, thus gaining admittance to this place and to this process.

It is related that one day Bridget had a vision of Purgatory and heard the voice of an angel who, consoling souls, repeated these words: "Blessed is he who, while still living on earth, helps purgative souls by works and good deeds, for the justice of God demands that, without the help of the living, be purified in fire." And he heard still other voices adding: "Thanks be to those who relieve us in our misfortunes; your power is infinite, O Lord: render a a hundred times to our benefactors, who lead us more quickly into the abode of your divine light."

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

"As I stood before the Blessed Sacrament on the day of Corpus Christi," we read in his writings, "there suddenly appeared before me a person all engulfed in flames, whose flames penetrated me so strongly that I seemed to burn with him. The pitiful state in which he showed me that he was in purgatory caused me to shed many tears. He told me that he was that Benedictine monk who had once heard my confession and ordered me to receive communion;to repay him for such profitable advice, God had permitted him to turn to me, that I might relieve him of his sorrows, asking me for three months for all that he could do and suffer."

Saint Faustina Kowalska

"Who should I pray for?" Jesus replied that the next night he would let me know for whom I should pray. I saw the Guardian Angel, who commanded me to follow him. In a moment I found myself in a foggy place, invaded by fire, and in it a huge crowd of suffering souls. These souls prayed with great fervour, but in vain for themselves: only we could help them. (...) I asked these souls what their greatest torment was. And they answered me unanimously that their greatest torment is their ardent desire for God."

Saint Francisca Saverio Cabrini

"You will make this Holy Communion for me." For a month the same request was repeated in his ears, and at the end of the month she saw him smile again and heard him say, "Enough is enough, I thank you; So far you have helped me, from now on I will help you."