I was born and raised as a Baptist. I have a feeling that's going to change. Thanks ,Father Meeks, for taking the time to explain what you believe and why.
I came to know Christ in a Fundamentalist Baptist church. Praise God for them who taught me to love scripture, listen to the Holy Spirit and to cherish and love my deep, abiding and personal relationship with Christ. I am forever in debt to them. Several years later, I came to the fullness of the Gospel in the Catholic Church. It was not an easy transition but one I continue in and continue to grow in. I'll pray for you. It is a tough path but worth every difficult step.
I've never heard a priest explain this, or any other theology so brilliantly, which makes me wonder about the Seminaries, or colleges training our priests? God bless you Fr Meeks you have a gift for teaching! ✌️🙏
Gentle yet succinct. Thank you Father for the solid teaching. You are gifted regardless of your lack of proper English accent for C.S. Lewis’ quotes. Your gift is far more superior. And I am eternally grateful for the blessing that you give and that you are.
@@francishopkins44 You can press the three little dotes on the side of your comment with the option of editing the message. Just in case you are not aware.
Thank you Father for your wonderful podcasts. You are certainly a gift from God to all of us. As a cradle Catholic of 70+ years I have never heard an explanation of purgatory so clearly explained and backed up by using Isaiah and New Testament writings. Living in the Deep South using explanations from Maccabees does not suffice. I look forward to all your podcasts. You help me to live, learn and share our beautiful Faith. God Bess you and your family.
Thank you Father Meeks. I appreciate all of the information you provide. It is so important that our understanding of our Faith is critical to salvation 🙏🏻🕊✝️🕊🙏🏻
Father Meeks, I am so glad that you decided to stay with us on UA-cam and present these interesting lessons pertaining to Apologetics. Wednesday is a special day now that I have your episodes to look forward to.
God bless you father, and thank you for not going away. I stole this, another preschool Purgatory Heaven's Hospital. It seems that we all need Heavens Hospital!
Dear Fr. Ed, Once again, you have managed to treat this topic with great clarity in a very concise and logical manner! I am looking forward to Part 2! Your podcasts have become an essential part of my weekly viewing and prayer life! I encourage others to share these widely with family, friends, and acquaintances. These are to good not the share!
Please Pray for My Family and Me. We did k own a Benedictine Monk. Wish He was still alive . He knew of our situations . He was going to Help but they got to Him . Over two years now .
Father - I’m doing the 90 Days for the souls in Purgatory Podcast with The Marian Fathers - tonight we prayed for those souls suffering from gluttony. I find Purgatory extremely frightening.🙏 looking forward to next week. Thank you!
Thank you Father! I enjoy how you speak, I am not good in english, but you speak so nice, that I understand everything. Could you please tell how our prayers help those who are in purgatory? It is said, that they can't help themselves anymore, so we need to pray to shorten their sufferings. My understanding suggests, that they don't love themselves, they want to suffer for their sins, and they choose to suffer. So how can I help? Maybe if they feel our love for them, it helps them to forgive themselves their sins? But why we? Why not the call from Heaven? Why are we sinners so important for their purification? I don't understand clearly. Forgive me God, that I don't pray for them enough, and please bless everyone who will pray for me, if I get there.Amen
There are some people whose lives are exemplary who clearly hunger and thirst after righteousness, yet because they see the atrocities and injustices of life cannot believe that God exists. As a protestant, I have always felt that purgatory was for them.
I like Brandt Pitre's explanation of the parable of the wicked servants. One will be cut in two (go to hell), one beaten severely and one beaten less severely. The concept of being beaten is a reference to a purgation after death.
Praised be Jesus I am amazed how our 'brothers' from protestant and east orthodox churches can reject purgatory. Mt21 31Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,j” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you. . It must be some place that soul will sped some time in waiting for entering heaven. God bless
Father Meeks, how would an Anglican find a door into the understanding of becoming a Catholic. There are no Ordinariate Parishes in my area. Is The only path as a convert to Catholicism?
Not speaking for Fr Meeks, but for myself: to join an ordinariate parish doesn't mean you remain Anglican. The Ordinariate is a door into the Catholic Church in its fullness; Ordinariate parishes are Catholic parishes, not Anglican ones, but with a strong Anglican flavour. If you complete the sacraments of initiation within the Ordinariate, you'll be a Catholic as much as any other Catholic, and entitled to attend Catholic Mass wherever it is validly and licitly offered. (Conversely, any Catholic can attend Mass at an Ordinariate Church). Hope that helps. PS I don't think Fr Meeks responds to comments, at least not to date. I just realised that I didn't really answer your question given that there is no ordinariate parish near you. I guess you have to do some serious thinking and praying to seek the Lord's will for you. Given that to join the ordinariate is to become Catholic, would it be so difficult to join a regular Catholic church?
Father, I am catholic and I have struggled with the concept of Purgatory for quite some time. Someone already mentioned the "Thief on the Cross" scenario in the comments. Why didn't Jesus or one of the new testament writers mention this additional hurdle to get into Heaven? Why did it take until the twelfth century for this concept to be developed? I thought one of the important concepts of apologetics was that writings should materialize within a couple of hundred years of an event in order to be considered believable? I would also ask if you could address the alleged buying and selling of indulgences that took place during the 13th century. Your explanation of Purgatory may have to be expanded beyond two parts. I don't think I am the only one who is confused about this topic. I'm not trying to trap you. I'm earnestly trying to find out the truth about this topic so I can explain it to other Catholic friends who have similar questions. I really appreciate you spending time on this topic.
Paul wrote the verse that Father quoted ( 1Cor3:15) . Also, St Augustine between yrs 392 and 418 quoted this same verse when he wrote the following: "In this life may you cleanse me and make me such that I have no need of the corrective fire which is for those who are saved, but as if by fire. For it is said, he shall be saved, but as if by fire.. and because he is saved, little is thought of that fire......" . I am reading about the early church fathers. I know why they say if you go back to the early church, you will become Catholic. No one can mistake the early church when there were no bibles, but bishops and priests and deacons who learned through apostolic succession from peter and apostles; no one can mistake it for anything but catholic. The liturgy, Holy Eucharist, infant baptism, other sacraments, prayers and Masses for the dead,etc.etc, etc. God bless you!
With reference to # 1 through 5 Father Meeks teachings are typically wonderful BUT the studio needs enhansements and the length needs to be extended as more teaching is appropriate . Robert Lockwood.
Father, do you have a P.O. Box or an email address. I would like to send you a letter with some of the questions I have. I was not raised Catholic but I believe that the Ordinariate might be the best fit for my Parish and Religious Order. We are Anglican/Old Catholic but we consider ourselves more Catholic than Anglican.
I have a question. When we die and see the face of Jesus and he will send us to purgatory or Hell. So do we stay asleep until Jesus comes again ? I can’t recall but in mass we say something like until we wake up. So when we die do we just stay asleep until he comes back?
The parable of the unforgiving or wicked servant in Matthew 18:23-35 eludes to purgatory, especially verses 32-35. The servant was handed over to the jailer, in Greek torturers, until he should pay all of his debt. The debt of mortal sin cannot be paid in hell and there are no torturers or debt in heaven.
Well, knowing my own condition and past it would certainly be appropriate for me to go through a purification. But here's the thing. Contrary to all Christian doctrine that I know of, I Know ghosts exist. Could that be souls in Purgatory? I don't know. Just trying to make sense of everything.
Did the thief on the cross ["Today you shall be with me in paradise"] go to purgatory? Are we not being sanctified in this present life by trials and tribulations, testings that we may come forth as gold? Was Joshua not taken out of his filthy clothes and clothed in clean linen [Zechariah ch.3]? Are we not clothed with the righteousness of Christ?
Someone once said "the closer you get to God the more you realize how sinful you are". [paraphrased]. When we are released from this body are we not released from the sinful nature? Did the apostles and martyrs go to purgatory? Best wishes.@@thomasmc7752
Fr Meeks Thank you for the excellent preaching of God's Word.However, I challenge the idea of purgatory. Having stumbled in the Catholic tradition for 55 years I was steeped in the Baltimore Catechism at the expense of God's Word.I have belatedly corrected this error. In your exegesis of the Catholic dogma on purgatory you stated correctly that the word purgatory does not appear in Scripture. Inspection of God's Word further reveals that the concept is not supported. Although there are many refutations let me simply point to Luke 12:43 the story of the thief on the cross where Jesus says to a guilty sinner (like moi) "Today you will be with Me in Paradise". What sweat words! Note Jesus did not say "You will be in purgatory". John 3:16 the euangelion says "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life". He does not add that an indefinite purging is a prerequisite. Thank you Lord for paying the price that I could not pay.
I don't think 'the age to come' argument is a good one. Purgatory isn't an age. In fact, that statement of Jesus suggests that it will be possible to commit the unpardonable sin in the age to come, but even then it will not be forgiven. So then the question arises, What is the age to come? There are many who believe it is the 1000 year reign of Christ on earth spoken of in Revelation. But that's not part of Catholic teaching. So is the age to come just synonymous with heaven? If someone had committed the unpardonable sin in their life time, they wouldn't make it as far as purgatory, so there would be no need to say that it would not be forgiven there. I think I've just started rambling.
The age to come must mean simply the next phase of existence after earthly life. Judgment whether we make it to purgatory is made at this time. Its duration is likely to be undetermined but partly connected to the prayers and works of penance of the faithful on earth.
We love you Father thank you for continuing to feed your sheep 🐑 🙏
So glad you're still on youtube Fr. Meeks. 🙏
Thank you Father Meeks🙏🏼❤️
Thank you Father Meeks for this very important teaching. I look forward to your podcast every week. I will continue to pray for you. God bless you.
I was born and raised as a Baptist. I have a feeling that's going to change. Thanks ,Father Meeks, for taking the time to explain what you believe and why.
I came to know Christ in a Fundamentalist Baptist church. Praise God for them who taught me to love scripture, listen to the Holy Spirit and to cherish and love my deep, abiding and personal relationship with Christ. I am forever in debt to them. Several years later, I came to the fullness of the Gospel in the Catholic Church. It was not an easy transition but one I continue in and continue to grow in. I'll pray for you. It is a tough path but worth every difficult step.
@jameswatkins4928 thank you for your prayers, James.
Keep'em coming Father! We need more of this - the teaching of the faith. Thank you!
Thank you Father, God bless you
I've never heard a priest explain this, or any other theology so brilliantly, which makes me wonder about the Seminaries, or colleges training our priests? God bless you Fr Meeks you have a gift for teaching! ✌️🙏
Every Wednesday he does an episode
The information is out there in many different forms, but it is true, not everyone has the gift of teaching.
Gentle yet succinct. Thank you Father for the solid teaching. You are gifted regardless of your lack of proper English accent for C.S. Lewis’ quotes. Your gift is far more superior. And I am eternally grateful for the blessing that you give and that you are.
Thank you Father!
Thank you for another wonderful teaching! You are a blessing to so many!
Thank you father Meeks. God Bless you and thank you.
Thank you Father that was so needed
Just what we Catholics need is education in our Faith. God love you and bless you, Father.
You are the best Fr Meeks. I hope my fallen away catholic sister in law hears this. Thank you so much!
You make sure that she does
Thank you Fr. Meeks. God Bless You 🙏🏻
Thank you Father.
Thank you Fr.Meeks for staying with us to teach. There’s a lot to learn and you are the man to teach us.🙏🏻
Beautiful reflection on a teaching of our Holy Catholic faith. Thank you, Fr Meeeks
Thank you, Fr. Meeks; your teachings and explanations are wonderful. Keep them coming. God Bless YOU.
Thank you, Father. It is so wonderful to have you still teaching us with your clear words and deep faith. God bless you.
Thank you Ed. I find your Talks. Very Edifying. I look forward to you every Week. Your Words uplift me and fill me with Hope. 🕊🙏🏻🙏🏻🕊❤️
Forgive me for being disrespectful: I should have said: Father Ed. Sorry 😱❤️🕊🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🕊
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God bless you Father. I look forward to these teachings.❤
These lectures are so interesting. I am a protestant. Thank you for them. You have a great gift for teaching.
God bless you Father Meeks! Enjoying your videos immensely. Thank you so much!
Thank you Fr Meeks love listening to you
Father, great teaching. Have shared with my community of believers. God bless you.
I love these podcasts. Please continue to feed us, your online flock. Amen.
God bless you Father Meeks!
Thank you Father for your wonderful podcasts. You are certainly a gift from God to all of us. As a cradle Catholic of 70+ years I have never heard an explanation of purgatory so clearly explained and backed up by using Isaiah and New Testament writings. Living in the Deep South using explanations from Maccabees does not suffice. I look forward to all your podcasts. You help me to live, learn and share our beautiful Faith. God Bess you and your family.
Thank you Father Meeks. I appreciate all of the information you provide. It is so important that our understanding of our Faith is critical to salvation 🙏🏻🕊✝️🕊🙏🏻
Every episode has been top notch. Thank you Fr Meeks. I look forward to every wed.
Father Meeks, I am so glad that you decided to stay with us on UA-cam and present these interesting lessons pertaining to Apologetics. Wednesday is a special day now that I have your episodes to look forward to.
Thank you Father. That was most enlightening. Keep up this good work and help us to learn. Blessings to you and my prayers for you as well. Thank you.
Thank you Father. Awesome homily!
Thank you so much, Father Meeks. These are wonderful.
Keep it up Father. Thank you
God bless you father, and thank you for not going away. I stole this, another preschool Purgatory Heaven's Hospital. It seems that we all need Heavens Hospital!
My husband and I just love to listen to you Father Meeks.
Spot on as usual Father Meeks!!! Keep it coming!!! ❤🙏🙏🙏
Dear Fr. Ed,
Once again, you have managed to treat this topic with great clarity in a very concise and logical manner! I am looking forward to Part 2! Your podcasts have become an essential part of my weekly viewing and prayer life! I encourage others to share these widely with family, friends, and acquaintances. These are to good not the share!
Please Pray for My Family and Me.
We did k own a Benedictine Monk.
Wish He was still alive .
He knew of our situations .
He was going to Help but they got to Him .
Over two years now .
Heaven’s mud room 👍🏼
🙏 ❤️ from Liverpool England 🏴
Thanks, Father!!
I DONT JUST like them... I consider them essential to my growth as a Catholic. THANk YOU Fr Meeks for continuing to teach us in your retirement!
I will be listening to this one again. Thank you Fr. Meeks.
Me too, twice already.
Amen
Father - I’m doing the 90 Days for the souls in Purgatory Podcast with The Marian Fathers - tonight we prayed for those souls suffering from gluttony. I find Purgatory extremely frightening.🙏 looking forward to next week. Thank you!
Thank you father. Amen Amen
Thank you Father! I enjoy how you speak, I am not good in english, but you speak so nice, that I understand everything.
Could you please tell how our prayers help those who are in purgatory?
It is said, that they can't help themselves anymore, so we need to pray to shorten their sufferings.
My understanding suggests, that they don't love themselves, they want to suffer for their sins, and they choose to suffer. So how can I help? Maybe if they feel our love for them, it helps them to forgive themselves their sins? But why we? Why not the call from Heaven? Why are we sinners so important for their purification? I don't understand clearly.
Forgive me God, that I don't pray for them enough, and please bless everyone who will pray for me, if I get there.Amen
Wonderful! Helpful! +JMJ+
Ecclesiastical genius. One in a million.
There are some people whose lives are exemplary who clearly hunger and thirst after righteousness, yet because they see the atrocities and injustices of life cannot believe that God exists. As a protestant, I have always felt that purgatory was for them.
But what you should be saying is not 'what do I think? ' but 'what does the church say? ' .
I like Brandt Pitre's explanation of the parable of the wicked servants. One will be cut in two (go to hell), one beaten severely and one beaten less severely. The concept of being beaten is a reference to a purgation after death.
Praised be Jesus
I am amazed how our 'brothers' from protestant and east orthodox churches can reject purgatory.
Mt21
31Which of the two did the will of his father?”
“The first,j” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
.
It must be some place that soul will sped some time in waiting for entering heaven.
God bless
Yes, well pointed out
Father Meeks, how would an Anglican find a door into the understanding of becoming a Catholic. There are no Ordinariate Parishes in my area. Is The only path as a convert to Catholicism?
Not speaking for Fr Meeks, but for myself: to join an ordinariate parish doesn't mean you remain Anglican. The Ordinariate is a door into the Catholic Church in its fullness; Ordinariate parishes are Catholic parishes, not Anglican ones, but with a strong Anglican flavour. If you complete the sacraments of initiation within the Ordinariate, you'll be a Catholic as much as any other Catholic, and entitled to attend Catholic Mass wherever it is validly and licitly offered. (Conversely, any Catholic can attend Mass at an Ordinariate Church). Hope that helps.
PS I don't think Fr Meeks responds to comments, at least not to date.
I just realised that I didn't really answer your question given that there is no ordinariate parish near you. I guess you have to do some serious thinking and praying to seek the Lord's will for you. Given that to join the ordinariate is to become Catholic, would it be so difficult to join a regular Catholic church?
Thank you for the comment. @@alan-muscat
when does part 6 come??
Father, I am catholic and I have struggled with the concept of Purgatory for quite some time. Someone already mentioned the "Thief on the Cross" scenario in the comments. Why didn't Jesus or one of the new testament writers mention this additional hurdle to get into Heaven? Why did it take until the twelfth century for this concept to be developed? I thought one of the important concepts of apologetics was that writings should materialize within a couple of hundred years of an event in order to be considered believable? I would also ask if you could address the alleged buying and selling of indulgences that took place during the 13th century.
Your explanation of Purgatory may have to be expanded beyond two parts. I don't think I am the only one who is confused about this topic. I'm not trying to trap you. I'm earnestly trying to find out the truth about this topic so I can explain it to other Catholic friends who have similar questions.
I really appreciate you spending time on this topic.
Paul wrote the verse that Father quoted ( 1Cor3:15) . Also, St Augustine between yrs 392 and 418 quoted this same verse when he wrote the following: "In this life may you cleanse me and make me such that I have no need of the corrective fire which is for those who are saved, but as if by fire. For it is said, he shall be saved, but as if by fire.. and because he is saved, little is thought of that fire......" . I am reading about the early church fathers. I know why they say if you go back to the early church, you will become Catholic. No one can mistake the early church when there were no bibles, but bishops and priests and deacons who learned through apostolic succession from peter and apostles; no one can mistake it for anything but catholic. The liturgy, Holy Eucharist, infant baptism, other sacraments, prayers and Masses for the dead,etc.etc, etc. God bless you!
With reference to # 1 through 5 Father Meeks teachings are typically wonderful BUT the studio needs enhansements and the length needs to be extended as more teaching is appropriate . Robert Lockwood.
Father, do you have a P.O. Box or an email address. I would like to send you a letter with some of the questions I have. I was not raised Catholic but I believe that the Ordinariate might be the best fit for my Parish and Religious Order. We are Anglican/Old Catholic but we consider ourselves more Catholic than Anglican.
office@ctktowson.org
I have a question. When we die and see the face of Jesus and he will send us to purgatory or Hell. So do we stay asleep until Jesus comes again ? I can’t recall but in mass we say something like until we wake up. So when we die do we just stay asleep until he comes back?
The parable of the unforgiving or wicked servant in Matthew 18:23-35 eludes to purgatory, especially verses 32-35. The servant was handed over to the jailer, in Greek torturers, until he should pay all of his debt. The debt of mortal sin cannot be paid in hell and there are no torturers or debt in heaven.
Well, knowing my own condition and past it would certainly be appropriate for me to go through a purification.
But here's the thing. Contrary to all Christian doctrine that I know of, I Know ghosts exist. Could that be souls in Purgatory? I don't know. Just trying to make sense of everything.
Ghosts from purgatory appeared to Padre Pio
Did the thief on the cross ["Today you shall be with me in paradise"] go to purgatory? Are we not being sanctified in this present life by trials and tribulations, testings that we may come forth as gold? Was Joshua not taken out of his filthy clothes and clothed in clean linen [Zechariah ch.3]? Are we not clothed with the righteousness of Christ?
Yet, we are not the finished article at our death. Very few could say they have lived fully the life God has called us to, wouldn't you say.
Someone once said "the closer you get to God the more you realize how sinful you are". [paraphrased]. When we are released from this body are we not released from the sinful nature? Did the apostles and martyrs go to purgatory? Best wishes.@@thomasmc7752
I don't have a home thanks
Trying to understand your comment…Are you saying you don’t have a religion?
Fr Meeks Thank you for the excellent preaching of God's Word.However, I challenge the idea of purgatory. Having stumbled in the Catholic tradition for 55 years I was steeped in the Baltimore Catechism at the expense of God's Word.I have belatedly corrected this error.
In your exegesis of the Catholic dogma on purgatory you stated correctly that the word purgatory does not appear in Scripture. Inspection of God's Word further reveals that the concept is not supported. Although there are many refutations let me simply point to Luke 12:43 the story of the thief on the cross where Jesus says to a guilty sinner (like moi) "Today you will be with Me in Paradise". What sweat words! Note Jesus did not say "You will be in purgatory".
John 3:16 the euangelion says "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life". He does not add that an indefinite purging is a prerequisite. Thank you Lord for paying the price that I could not pay.
I don't think 'the age to come' argument is a good one. Purgatory isn't an age. In fact, that statement of Jesus suggests that it will be possible to commit the unpardonable sin in the age to come, but even then it will not be forgiven. So then the question arises, What is the age to come? There are many who believe it is the 1000 year reign of Christ on earth spoken of in Revelation. But that's not part of Catholic teaching. So is the age to come just synonymous with heaven? If someone had committed the unpardonable sin in their life time, they wouldn't make it as far as purgatory, so there would be no need to say that it would not be forgiven there.
I think I've just started rambling.
The age to come must mean simply the next phase of existence after earthly life. Judgment whether we make it to purgatory is made at this time. Its duration is likely to be undetermined but partly connected to the prayers and works of penance of the faithful on earth.
Nope, Father Meek. You have it wrong on this one. There is no purgatory. Jesus' blood cleans us completely at Salvation.
Thank you father ❤