Comments for Talking to the dead at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:38:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/talking-to-the-dead.html#comment-5078 one comment.... as a former Protestant the one line that always seems to cast a little ? in the minds of our "separated brethren" is the idea of God being "outside of time and space." i have to admit that even in my Protestant Bible College we were not taught to contemplate such things...it was only after years of daily Mass that such and idea began to dawn the on the neanderthal mind within my skull. my devout daughter attending a very orthodox college let me know i was being quite Aquinas minded without ever reading much of the Angelic doctor. (how nice of my Father to do that for me in the midst of working, raising kids, and loving my husband the best way i can, not much time for independent study...) That kind of idea blows away the problem of "praying for the dead" since to God none of us are...we are ever alive in one place or another. we are either in Him or not. so when you suggest that in praying for the conversion of a soul that for us is in the next world, but to God is at the very moment of conception and at the hour of death PRESENT, grace can be bestowed by the merit of our prayers for this one....even my brother who holds his doctorate in Protestant theology from Gordon Cromwell cannot answer that without gymnastics that show his uncomfortably at explaining away that which cannot hold true without making God like us-an age old heresy as even he knows!...SO! wear a crucifix to your next Protestant party and remind them that He is ever in the womb, ever in the manger, ever on the Cross dying for their very souls, ever at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty... how awesome to think that such worm minds (us) could begin to even get to know the One....and that He pierces even the humble slow minds of the uneducated housewife and mother with such lofty thoughts because He is Eternal Beauty and Grace.....and then He uses the friends at TCT to help us all along the path. thanks, brad. love to you all and for our beloved dead and even those we didn't love very much at all, "Hail Mary, FULL OF GRACE!..." - debby Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:24:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/talking-to-the-dead.html#comment-5076 By God's grace, myoulsome who deny the existence of purgatory may arrive there, look around and say, "This place looks awfully Catholic." - Scott Hesener Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:43:07 +0100