PURGATORY: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know w/ Karlo Broussard
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2024
- I chat with Karlo Broussard from Catholic Answers about purgatory. Check out Karlo's new book on Purgatory:: shop.catholic....
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I’m technically Protestant but I’ve become very interested in Catholicism and I’m in the process of converting. Thank you for the video, it cleared up a lot of questions I had! God bless!
God bless you Greatly Alannah! I was a Muslim for many many years and now I'm Proudly Catholic and LOVING IT!!! Best decision I made(after deep research of course) in my life... Prayers to you Sister!
I was a Protestant 2 months ago. May the Lord bless you!
Praying for you and all your needs, allannah. If you need any help or advice let me know
@@loufonz8679 if it's not too much, do you have a personal testimony written perchance? No need to share if this seems like an abrupt request. I'm interested in Islam you see🙂
Yeah that tends to happen. Happened to me too. Something about Catholicism attracts Protestants.
Great arguments! Protestant here. I never had any inherent problem with purgatory. I just wasn't taught it. And I wasn't taught to interpret any scripture as describing or alluding to it. I'm open to it. Thanks for this episode!
@Tim, good on ya simply for weighing arguments w an open mind regardless of your final verdict whether it be for of against the teaching.
No you are NOT a Protestant. The question of Purgatory lies in its being a replacement for the Way to God the Father - that's why Christ never taught it.
@@CeeOlleab388uh oh, here goes a Protestant telling not only Catholic brothers they aren’t Christian or saved but even going as far as telling another Protestant the same. What happened to “once saved” or was the brother above never saved to begin with? 🙄. Let’s be charitable and open minded. Easier for the Holy Spirit to work with.
@CeeOlleab388 Um, no, the Catholic Church does NOT teach that purgatory is another way or a replacement of the way to God the Father and has NEVER taught that. Did you not listen to the video?
@@CeeOlleab388 If you're gonna tell someone what Purgatory is, you should probably know what Purgatory is. It is most certainly NOT a replacement way to God. It's absurd to approach a Catholic, tell them you know their theology better than they do, tell them their theology is wrong ("because, trust me"), and then expect that Catholic to change their mind because you told them to.
If you want to convince a Catholic that Purgatory is wrong, you should learn what Catholics actually believe about it first. I'm certainly open to having a discussion with someone if they 1) understand my faith or 2) maybe don't understand it but take the time to ask me about it so I can share what I truly believe. Then, we can talk about what we actually differ on. You can't talk about what you differ on, if you don't know what it is you differ with.
All the apologists at Catholic Answers seem like such great guys.
Thank you Matt & Karlo! Matt you’ve really helped some friends of mine come several huge steps closer to Catholicism, your sincerity overwhelmed and wowed them! Don’t ever stop!
I love to watch Karlo, he is one of the best apologists in the catholic church, like Trent Horn, Jimmy Akin, Dr. Anders host of ‘Called to Communion’, Steve Ray and many more
Top notch Apologist especially for making a compelling Scriptural case! Thanks for all your work Karlo. Matt you've been killing it with all these guests lately!
I would love a book! I want to know more about Purgatory!
Howdy! I'm interested in Karlo's book and wish to pass it on to a Protestant friend after I read it.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mother of the Americas Pray for Us.
OLOG pray for us!
God is Good & All The Time God is Good. Thank you for talking about Purgatory.
I would love to learn more about purgatory! I’ve been trying to learn about it for years and the way he describes it sounds so wisdom building!
Thank you so much for this episode! Me and my mom have a women's Bible study and when the topic of purgatory came up there were so many questions that we couldn't answer. We will be sharing this talk with the women of our group! And the book would be a wonderful addition to my mini library of Catholic literature!
This is exactly what I needed to watch! A Protestant friend of mine was just asking about this topic. Thank you!
I can pull apart all the verses that the Church uses to say that purgatory is a real place.
@@Aramis75 according to your opinion but not according to the verses as they were understood by the writers and early Church.
Thank you, I pray that many will find Truth in your explanation and writings.
Loved it! This doctrine, when properly understood, leads to growing holiness and thankfulness for God's mercy. It shows a sharp contrast between "greasy grace" and Divine justice for all the deeps done in the body. Glory to Jesus Christ!!
God's mercy is at the cross, not in some half-baked concept. Justice will happen at the final judgment.
@@Aramis75 everybody knows that justice will happen at the end. What makes you think that others teachings are half baked and not yours?
@@Aramis75 The law = the Bible. Be careful when you use it NOT in the spirit of Love, but as your weapon to Attack and Judge. This same Bible is so frank about this problem even as it sings the beauty of the law.
would love to get Karlo's book ! went to catholic schools from kindergarten to college in the philippines, everyone in our town was catholic, more than 80% in the country are catholic. Purgatory isnt given a second thought, everything the church teaches are carved in our hearts. never really knew anything about other religions till migrated here in america 4 years ago and still in disbelief how hatred and division are what we always see. always praying for the country♥️ these talks/videos are my comfort zone! thank you God bless you both!
God Bless
Thank you for covering this topic. God Bless!
Thank you, Karlo and Matt! This has helped me tremendously to understand more about purgatory. My 94 year old Mom passed away a couple years ago and it's been very difficult for me to let go... I sometimes have anxious thoughts about having lost her. This is very reassuring to me. Thank you. God bless.
I've been teaching parish school religion for over 30+ years and this is one concept I always struggled to explain. Thank you so much for this episode. Great information!
Thank you for this persuasive discussion.
Hey Matt and Karlo,
Thanks for the great video! PWA interviews have been very helpful in the past and this one is no exception. I have been subscribed to the channel for what I believe is a couple of months now and am also a new supporter on Patreon as of a few weeks ago, but I thought I would throw my name in for a free book anyway (though this might be breaking the rules I guess). Of all of the topics I have been learning about regarding Catholic teaching Purgatory is one that I am not as familiar with.
I have already purchased Karlo's new book on Meeting the Protestant Challenge (I will get to reading it soon). Also, Karlo was very helpful in answering a question on baptism I had not too long ago when I called in to Catholic Answers Live (thanks for that). Keep up the great work fellas. God bless and glory to Jesus Christ.
This is a doctrine that I have struggled to see clearly. However, one thing that helped me to understand it better, is that it is a state where we see and understand (and thus properly grieve for) the depth and consequences of the sins we have committed but still haven't perfectly repented for.
I want a free book please! 🤍 Loved this talk! Thanks for putting out such great content Matt! 🙏🏻
I'm a highschooler wanting to learn more about purgatory. That book would be awesome!
Such a great interview. Purgatory is an interesting topic to me as a Catholic. I have protestant friends who have questioned me about it, and it made me realize I should learn more about it.
Thanks to both of you for this. I always love learning about Purgatory
Thank you very much for doing the giveaway! I want the book, please. Always support you and your works.
Hey, Matt! Very Good episode.
Subscribed! As always, thanks for this great video gents!
I would really appreciate the book for my spiritual development thanks!!!
Thank you Matt & Karlo
Excellent interview! Great job explaining purgatory!
I love you Matt and I love our faith
Purgatory is one of the topics where my Protestant mom and I repeatedly end up in circles. I think I've addressed the argument Matt provided at the show's end two or three times so far. I can't remember if I've ever answered in the way presented here, though. I'll have to rewatch it a few times so I can hopefully remember it if the topic comes up again.
Awesome!!! Just purchased mine on Kindle!
I would love a copy of this book! God bless Karlo and all of the Apologists at Catholic answers. Their open forums (especially with atheists) helped me so much a few years ago through a period of doubt in my faith. Thank you for taking such complex topics and explaining them in a way that the average person can understand.
Great episode and super insightful! I would love to give Karlo’s book to my evangelical friends!
What an important subject. Do necessary for our faith formation. Comforting with the knowledge about purgatory.
Like it. I would love to learn more on purgatory. Thank you.
Thanks to Karlo for answering my question. Thanks Matt for an excellent show. So Matt? Do you watch any cricket?
That Karlo fellow is hardcore. Nicely done gents.
Sounds like a really interesting book! I caught Mr. Broussard on Catholic Answers a while after this. I've been very interested in eschatology and justification recently so I'll have to add this book to my list.
Great video! Thanks for your content Matt Fradd!
Greetings from Germany Matt. Grateful for posting good content almost every day!
Thank you God bless you
Brothers in Christ, I’d be very interested in Karlo’s book to help build my evangelisation and apologetics knowledge and share it with our Protestant friends.
Is it just me or is there an unspoken trend right now of Protestants converting to Catholicism.. I thought it was just me but I can see heaps of Protestants in this thread who like me are in the process of converting!
We are told to pray and fast for the conversion of souls before all else.
It seems to be working, praise God!
Hook a brother (in Christ) up! Thanks Matt and Karlo
Love the show, and could definitely use the book to help evangelize!
Love this channel. Really appreciate this talk. I shared it with my mother who is asking questions about the CC from a Protestant background. Been reading through the OT and came across Deuteronomy 4:20, Egypt as an iron foundry. I wonder if there isn't a connection between this and Purgatory, since both are a time of trial and purification?
Padre Pio vs Thomas Aquinas on Bilocation! Love it Matt and Karlo.
I'd love that book. God bless
Looking good, Matt. Great interview.
Thank you, very helpful!
I'd like to throw my name in for the book! And thanks for the great answer to my question!
I'm interested to read this book. May God bless!
Looks like he got the free stein!! sweet! Thanks for answering the question!
There’s a former pastor in Jehova Witnesses converted to catholicism in my country Philippines, he said even he didn’t undertand all the teaching and beliefs in the catholic church he accept them all because God guided His Holy church in all truth.
"Ye worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews."
Would love that book😊
Thanks for putting on great interviews and content, Matt! Karlo has a lot of great insight. One such seed rooted in Scripture I notice is among the many parallels between the Cross and our personal faith journeys to heaven, and the Exodus:
-All of us begin in bondage to sin (Egypt)
- Jesus' sacrifice (the Passover lamb) loosed our chains keeping us in sin
- our Baptism purifies us of our prior sins (crossing the Red Sea)
- our faith walk is filled with temptations and stumbling back into sin (40 yrs wilderness)
-enduring and finishing our race by reading Heaven (entering into the Promised Land)
Just as the Israelites journey in the wilderness was preceeded by the washing away of the Egyptians in the Red Sea, their entrance into the Promised Land at the end of their exodus was preceeded by the crossing of the Jordan River, with the Ark of the Covenant in the midst of it.
These are two types of purifications: the washing away of sins at our baptism, and the final cleansing of looming sins before entering in Heaven, only made possible by Jesus Christ. Purgatory is our crossing the Jordan to enter the Promised Land.
Why would purgatory be necessary if the blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin?
@@Justas399 That's a great question! To best respond, allow me to first ask you what your understanding is about how the blood of Christ cleanses each of us from our sins, and when does it happen. Thanks!
@@ajamusic7322 the blood of Christ cleanses us at salvation and when we ask for forgiveness directly from God.
@@Justas399 just to further clarify, when does that happen?
It is possible that it is precisely by Jesus’s blood that we are purged of any remaining temporal effects of sin.
Matt Fradd.
I heard you say purifry! Lol
Seems like an appropriate word!
Loved this! And I would love a copy of the book 😊
As a former Atheist but now Protestant, i’d love to check this book out (:
I pray you're one of the lucky winners! What is your current understanding and hangup about purgatory, if you have one?
Fantastic work Gents, just what the world needs right now. Live Jesus our love and Mary our hope!
Hebrews 9:27 " And it is appointed unto men once to die,but after this judgement"
Purgatory doesn't exist. We need to get right with the Lord in this life, no second chances after death.
@ingridprior1337
I don't work off cut and paste quotes.
Karlo has done remarkable work here. In Charity, there is no room for ignorance on this one.
Those who die in God's grace and friendship imperfectly purified, although they are assured of their eternal salvation, undergo a purification after death, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of God.
Without Purgatory, Confession goes out the window, without Confession, Preisthood goes out the window, without Preisthood the Papacy goes out the window, without the Papacy, indefectabilty, infallible doctrines and dogmas truths fallen from Heaven protected by the Holy Ghost and the Chair of St Peter goes out the window, the Holy and apostolic Unversal Church as we know it goes out the window. One of us is correct here. God speed, my friend.
Great topic for advent ❣️
I would love to have the book! :)
I would love a free copy!!! Love your show Matt!!!
Nice video as always, I'm planning to read the book.
Great interview!
Amazing episode!
Informative as always
I imagine it kind of like this, it's not a perfect analogy but, this life is like being in the dark and when you transition to the next life it is like going out into the light, where your eyes hurt as they adjust, that's like purgatory, and when your eyes have adjusted you can see clearly, that's heaven.
If you think that God cannot "adjust" your eyes in an instant when you die then you are sorely mistaken.
@@Aramis75 he can do that too, but it's not about what he can do but how he wants to do it.
I would have liked to know the church's historical arguments for purgatory and who were those that made those arguments.
Hey Matt, a couple of weeks/months ago, I had mentioned in the live chats and comments section of your videos to have Karlo on, and talk about his book on the purgatory. I don't know if you had seen my comment and this video is a response to it but it's awesome having Karlo on!
P.S. also I had mentioned this very comment somewhere at the start of the live chat in this video. I wonder if you were referring to me at 3:59 in this video :P
Hey Matt, hope you're shipping the book to Croatia ;)
Great episode!
I love what Karlo says at 12:07.
Limbo at 38:11
Since Jesus was a Jew. I would think his Jewish disciples knew about the purgatory doctrine from Jewish teachings
@Marty Thats not purgatory.
@Marty yes
There seems to be nothing In Jewish teaching about purgatory. It's not in the old testament nor in rabbinical texts like the tanakh.
I want to use this book with my Protestant cousin and bring him back to the faith
I'd like to win that book.
Hey, I Would love to get that Book, God Bless You both ✌🏼
I want the book please
Give me the book!! 😅 You're awesome, guys.
i think the most powerful objection to Purgatory is St Mark of Epehsus' writings against the notion. He is a pillar and saint of Orthodoxy, and so we Catholics need to ponder on this much more than the nonsense the protestants bring to bear.
Fun fact : Luke 12 might be one of Jesus' most indirect (or direct!) references to purgatory. First heard about it from Brant Pitre. I wonder if Karlo's book mentions it...would be nice if you could hook me up with a copy Matt!
Great episode. Would love to read this book especially if it was won. Will you guys be signing it?
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Great video!
As a Protestant looking at Catholicism (and Orthodoxy) with fresh eyes, this was a helpful talk about a subject I have been very wary of looking into. I just thought it was a late accretion and (sorry) -- "wrong"! Currently reading Aquinas on Purgatory from the Summa too. As an aside, it doesn't seem that the Orthodox and Catholic views on this are that far apart in reality...
I would really like to have the book Matt :) I went to one of your talks in NH, Exeter by the way :)
The best demonstration of Purgatory in the Bible is Luke 12:41-48 see Dr Brant Pitre video for excellent explanation.
Hebrews 9:27 " And it is appointed unto men once to die,but after this judgement"
Purgatory doesn't exist. We need to get right with the Lord in this life, no second chances after death.
Would love to have the book thanks
I am a “very protestant” person. I don’t like titles at all I simply follow Christ and try in my fallibility to follow his teachings. I appreciate this because I used to worry about the salvation if Catholics for a long time until I say down about a year ago with a catholic with the intent of open dialogue. The teaching of purgatory and Mary were always my big worries. However I may not be Catholic but I primarily listen to Catholics now. I appreciate this teaching and helped further clarify what I thought Catholics taught. God bless
It's good to know what they believe, they are fellow Christians. I don't agree w/ doctrines like this one, at all. This whole set of extraneous doctrines that go together, purgatory, indulgences, treasury of merit are the ones that disturb me the most about Catholicism. I don't think it affects their salvation to believe it, but it sure would disturb my peace if I did believe it. These aren't peace inducing doctrines at all. This life is tough enough, but then more crap, likely worse when I die. Uggghh.
It seems a lot of people think their sins are only between self and God. But if we sin against the body or the world, the ripples are quite severe.
Galatians 1-8
also, their version of purgatory since they believe we ought to pray for the dead is that those souls are temporarily in hell, and that not all souls in hell are there permanently until the day of last judgement
No friend, purgatory is NOT hell. They are any believers that need to be purified before seeing God. Heb 10:26. When we willfully sin after receiving the gospel, that is very very serious for us all. Most all of us have attachments to sin. That why Jesus said Go and sin no more. If we die with attachments to a sin or sins, we must repent and stop doing that sin. If we don’t, we will be purged and need it bc He is FAR more HOLY than our human minds can imagine. Christ gave His LIfe to save us. We are abusing His death when we willfully sin. This is what Paul was explaining… God forbid we think we can continue to sin as believers. That is abusing and taking advantage of His Grace. That will NOT be allowed. Blessings to you! 🙏🏻
I would like a book!
12:34 *You can still have sin on your soul by turning away from God as your final end*
Once you die you are entitled to rebirth but the time for prayer is over, those who are to be reborn are spared the thought of sin, if they didn't they would become overwhelmed by its consequences, they are simply waiting to return, this requires grace.
You can't second guess what happens after death you either know it or you don't, and if you do it is because God has let you know.
You don't get to see the *Beatific Vision* until well after your judgement, (except if your judgement happened in your present life) because we cannot come to the Father but by God the Son who is the Divine Word, and when you see God the Father you see him in Jesus Christ.
The concept of Purgatory is that the sufficiency of Christs death was not enough.
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can one do penance for past forgiven sins in addition to the required penance after confession so as to reduce one`s suffering in purgatory?
Those are apparently indulgences and they can buy you time out of purgatory. What you said there kind of shows why so many do not believe in it. It's doing yet more penance "for past forgiven sins", so your sins aren't really forgiven.