
Originally Posted by
Psalter Spectre
now this shall be for Catholics:
Though the Bible is the word of God and a light upon our feet, the mysteries of the Holy Trinity can not be forced to be filled in wholly in the bible because the mystery is beyond human text and our capacity to understand. (Remember the experience of St. Augustine about putting the whole ocean to a hole). That is why the Lord is making ways for revelation and part of which is the great inspiration of the saints and the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
If purgatory does not exist, why then should Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary be wasting time to let those saints to see and feel what's going on with that place? Even if we are given absolution of our sins after confession, we still have the obligation to pay the consequences thereof that's why some forgiven souls are put in purgatory and to lessen their stay there, we are to offer them prayers.