Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement

And so, you know, when we go to confession, when we do our penance, those sins are, are forgiven, but yet there's still this, this punishment and the eternal life that kind of needs to be atoned for.

Now in our Catholic practice, we have the practice of indulgences, which are, you know, was controversial back in the 1500s with Martin Luther, but the proper understanding of indulgences, like a plenary indulgence that one could gain on Divine Mercy Sunday, or actually just the other day I visited a Schoenstatt shrine, and it's like the 100th anniversary of the Sisters of Schoenstatt, and so any Schoenstatt shrine, if you pray there, you could gain a plenary indulgence, but and then we have the year of saint francis uh that is coming or that is concluding soon we so any jubilee year these plenary indulgences that we have like they they kind of atone for the sins that we have committed so uh but purgatory any any temporal punishment that's remaining you know that's the that's the purification process now There have been mystics, visionaries like Maria Sima, for example, who saw poor souls, who conversed with them.

There are religious sisters who, you know, they said a sister came back and said, have masses said for me, I'm not yet in heaven.

And so we have the testimony of some of these holy religious sisters.