id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195792 nan Seventy-three Catholic tracts on various subjects. 1882 .txt text/plain 151168 7166 76 But the soul spotted with the smallest imperfections cannot bear the beatific vision of God, and it must therefore find some middle place where it can purify itself perfectly, and this middle state the Catholic Church calls Purgatory. See what St. Francis says of this text: “When we reflect that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, has loved us to such an excess as tq suffer the death of the Cross for our sake, our hearts are, as it were, put in a wine-press, and suffer violence, until love be extorted from them. cache/_005195792.txt txt/_005195792.txt