IT IS POSSIBLE TO AVOID PURGATORY ALTOGETHER
During the same summer that I had my first visit from a soul in Purgatory , I was getting intense teaching experience at a school in Spain that was run by a congregation of nuns. This was 21 years ago, and I was very slowly coming to piety, I was still of the arrogant disposition that the Lord ought grant my desires without my asking Him. One of the nuns, Sister M.L. was 97, and looked like a film star; she was most like Michelle Pfeiffer, and had an otherworldly glow, with perfect skin and the palest of pale blue eyes that glittered with pain. Sister M.L. had known torturous psychological distress, she was particularly grieved by the escalating numbers of abortions in Spain, but she offered it up with heroic persistence. She was from an exceptionally wealthy background and had not joined the convent because she had no other options; rather as a ravishing beauty she'd had the world at her feet. There came a late summer evening with a blazing orange sunset, I had finishe...
