How To Use Purgatory In A Sentence

At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
Why the f**k should I spend 8 years getting a PhD in biochem or engineering when I have to compete with a bunch of Chinese and Indian immigrants who are happy to make $30,000 for the next ten years of postdoc purgatory? Matthew Yglesias » Visas for Grads
Peruvians' notion of an afterlife very much follows Catholic notions of heaven, purgatory, and hell.
In some of his paintings it is as if he has been to hell and back, a reporter from the frontier of purgatory.
Pope Sixtus IV's fund-raising campaign touted indulgences which would free your deceased loved ones suffering in purgatory.

I concluded that what my grandfather had been in Purgatory, though also present on earth in some mystical way, and God allowed him to appeal to his son to pray for his release and purgation from attachment to this dimension.
Here is revealed one of the foremost of the causes which made the belief of the Dark Age in the numerous appearances of ghosts and devils so common and so intense that it gave currency to the notion that the swarming spirits of purgatory were disembogued from dusk till dawn. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
I had to say goodbye to my girlfriend so I could come back and get into shorthand classes - transition from bliss down to purgatory.
So perhaps before we indulge ourselves in a ritual sneer at those luckless rich, with their empty life of floating purgatory, we should look a little harder at ourselves and our own view of the outside world.
Furthermore, Dante's work is divided into three canticles (the Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise) and each canticle is then divided into thirty-three cantos.
It is enough that “my lud” has a handle to his name, and Murray Hill shoddyocracy will wine and dine and toady him, and perhaps for his title marry him to some sweet, pure and good American girl, whose life hereafter will be a purgatory to herself and a mutual misery to both. Black and White
These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung (Latin cantare, ‘to sing’), usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory.
Shows last week had discussions on Marian devotion, purgatory, and other Catholic doctrines.
I didn't blog for a couple of days over Easter because I was in purgatory - a village on the South Wales coast, near Cardiff - doing the family thing.
Chris, then, has fallen from grace and is living in a kind of purgatory, respected but terribly alone, knowing he can never be forgiven because the person he wronged is dead.
I am still heavily medicated and in pain, but can't see an end to this purgatory.
A Catholic priest gives the last rites to the dying and may offer a mass for a soul that departed to purgatory before making peace with God.
Lastly, for the errors brought in from false or uncertain history, what is all the legend of fictitious miracles in the lives of the saints; and all the histories of apparitions and ghosts alleged by the doctors of the Roman Church, to make good their doctrines of hell and purgatory, the power of exorcism, and other doctrines which have no warrant, neither in reason nor Scripture; as also all those traditions which they call the unwritten word of God; but old wives 'fables? Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
Preeminent among Luther's complaints were the practice of selling of indulgences (essentially, the selling of forgiveness for sin), the practice of "simony" (selling church positions), and the Church's policy on purgatory. The Vail Trail - All Sections
The Thirty-Nine Articles condemned ‘the Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons’ as unscriptural.
He explains that as a Catholic, the ideas of purgatory, heaven and hell, enter strongly into Kelly's worldview and because of this he must convince the audience, and himself, of his innocence.
You are a mere pygmy on your spiritual journey in comparison to some spiritual giants who have reached nirvana and have their name ticked off on the entrance list scroll pinned in the guard tower adjacent to the pearly gates, just up the block from the Purgatory Bar and Grill. Butt out « BuzzMachine
The reader will not fail to note that the terrace of the slothful is the only circle of Purgatory where there is no request for intercessory prayer and that Dante here never speaks to any of those souls. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
As Greenblatt observes, ‘Purgatory, along with theological language of communion, deathbed confession, and anointing (aneling), while compatible with a Christian (and, specifically, a Catholic) call for remembrance, is utterly incompatible with a Senecan call for vengeance’.
There is a selection of prayers for the souls in purgatory.
Neatness and greenth are so essential in my opinion to the country, that in France, where I see nothing but chalk and dirty peasants, I seem in a terrestrial purgatory that is neither town nor country. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
I find it particularly galling because, in this country, we have had to suffer pretty near total purgatory at the hands of our various enforcement agencies who seem to start from the premise that we are all members of that same Mafia clan.
He surrendered all he had fought for, accepting even the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and the existence of Purgatory.
Many folks in La Plata County never make it farther north than Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort for their winter frolicking, which is a shame. Durangoherald.com
Mapping the infernal regions of Hell and Purgatory with a geographer's precision, Botticelli takes the viewer on a journey of visceral, blood-curdling horror.
He maintains the youngster's idea of purgatory is a couple of hours on a running track or in a gym.
Furthermore, I believe that there is a place of purgatory, where souls departed be punished for a time, for whom the church doth godlily and wholesomely pray, like as it doth honour saints and make prayers to them. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
Apostolici" denied purgatory and the utility of prayers for the departed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
By this date, it was believed that the dead did not proceed directly to salvation, but instead passed to the intermediate state of purgatory, where they experienced a prolonged and painful purgation of their sins.
Purgatory, up to Paradise, where a "worthier" spirit will attend him. The Book of the Epic
Residents of a South Lakeland hamlet are in political purgatory after members of the parish council resigned over red tape.
_Ferondo, having swallowed a certain powder, is entombed for dead and being taken forth of the sepulchre by the abbot, who enjoyeth his wife the while, is put in prison and given to believe that he is in purgatory; after which, being raised up again, he reareth for his own a child begotten of the abbot on his wife_ 169 The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
But then Queensland seems to operate under some weird and wonderful political theology when it comes to who can be rehabilitated and who must remain in purgatory.
Chris, then, has fallen from grace and is living in a kind of purgatory, respected but terribly alone, knowing he can never be forgiven because the person he wronged is dead.
Second, you must submit to a two-and-a-half year purgatory of character assassination and blatant distortion of your record as a public official.
They should be allowed the benefit of a doubt, and peccadilloes should be ignored; but when no doubt exists that a man was engrainedly mean and cowardly, his reputation must remain in the Purgatory of Time for a term varying from, say, a hundred to two thousand years. Erewhon Revisited
One answer to the optimists' dilemma is a resurgent and slightly revised doctrine of purgatory.
Allow me to explain: today, my library's copies of the Wolves in the Walls arrived, to much jubilation, after sitting in cataloging purgatory for some time.
When, in the early sixteenth century, Johann Tetzel jacked up the price of indulgences and even had one of the first singing commercials composed to push sales ( "When the coin into the platter pings, the soul out of purgatory springs"), he failed to realize that he was overreaching. The Market as God
The Council reaffirmed the sanctity of the seven sacraments, transubstantiation, purgatory, and papal authority.
In the purgatory, he meets Beatrice, who takes him by the hand and - you guess it it - leads him to paradise.
At the same time, the emphasis on the life of the soul in purgatory, heaven, or hell made the corpse irrelevant to popular perceptions of life after death.
I did not call her unfeeling long, for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master, as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals. Wuthering Heights
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Audrey is in purgatory and Ken is no better than a Judas.
All these ghouls had lived dissolute lives and we were now bearing witness to their sentence in this watery purgatory.
Sit near the exit or offer up your suffering to the poor souls in purgatory.
England is the paradise of women, the hell of horse, and the purgatory of servant.
By depicting kings and emperors suffering torments in purgatory, thinly-veiled criticisms were levelled at rulers who did not live up to the model of Christian kingship.
Doctrines of Hell, and purgatory, the power of Exorcisme, and other Doctrines which have no warrant, neither in Reason, nor Scripture; as also all those Traditions which they call the unwritten Word of God; but old Wives Fables? Leviathan
a purgatory of drug abuse
The pope is not infallible, Mary is not an intercessor, Purgatory doesn't exist, and the sacraments are bogus. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins
But the terraced inner walls of the crater Alphonsus form a natural analogy for the tiers of Dante's purgatory. Ten Minutes, That's It
It tells a story, too, that is very much of our times: that of bearing witness, from the eerie comfort of a new world, to a past for which the present must dwell in an endless, civilised purgatory.
Where we left off with the BBCA series was a wrenching, traumatic cliffhanger in which friendly ghost Annie Lorena Crichlow, so much more appealing than her Syfy counterpart is trapped in purgatory, reaching out to her friends through staticky TV screens as she pitiably weeps in a sinister waiting room and anxiously waits for whatever comes next. Roush Review: Being Human and More Weekend TV
He reconsecrated it to the Virgin Mary and resumed using the temple to pray for the dead, only now it was ‘Christianised ‘, as men added the unscriptural teaching of purgatory.
The experiences of the discarnate soul broadly follow the heaven, purgatory and hell ethic of Christian teaching.
Even though," and here Alexander raised a commanding papal finger," our souls may rest for a time in purgatory. THE FAMILY
I felt suspended in some kind of mental purgatory that demanded that I experience the collective disappointment of each and every person there.
Catholics believe that God uses purgatory to prepare sinful souls for the joys of heaven.
It is absurd to indict a whole people or to banish a whole people to some historical purgatory where they can expiate their sins.
The long-suffering Tory faithful may feel they are going through hell; but last week's policy renaissance proved they are only in the temporary state of purgatory.
Thing is, I've already tried purgatory, so I'm not that fussed.
Born around 1495 in the Lollard country of the west Cotswolds, educated at Oxford and inspired by Luther, Tyndale became a translator because he believed that if "a boy that driveth the plough" had access to the word of God in his own language, he would discover how little of Catholic ritual and indeed doctrine was in there no sacraments or relics, no bishops, popes or purgatory. The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar
Getting up at four o'clock every morning is sheer purgatory.
All sins must be paid for, and those who had not done enough good deeds in life to compensate must suffer pain in purgatory until their sins were expiated
It allowed the thief, the adulterer, the murderer and the defrauder of the poor to secure forgiveness of his sins by buying his way out of the allegedly purifying flames of Purgatory rather than demanding a radical change of his life to a true "path of righteousness". Father Paul Mayer: The Carbon Tax: A Moral Issue
The Rosary has its origins in the psalms, which monastic communities would recite as part of their daily petitions, such as psalm repetition for the deceased in purgatory.
.. all of asudden, it came to me to offer to divine justice, for the purgatory souls,... all my sweats of anguish. Archive 2008-10-19
Neatness and greenth are so essential in my opinion to the country, that in France, where I see nothing but chalk and dirty peasants, I seem in a terrestrial purgatory that is neither town or country. The Art of Letters
I think he has applied his vast study of Augustine's writings on the redemptive power of suffering and the Church's teaching on purgatory.
But it is the pilgrim's lightness that impels the narrative forward, out of hell and into purgatory.
But to travel hundreds of miles to do this again and again, end on end, night after night, seems like a freehand sketch of purgatory.
God has ordained that the souls in Purgatory can receive effective help from the faithful on earth.
These minor foundations existed to sing masses for the souls of their benefactors; as such, they encouraged beliefs in purgatory and the merits of requiems, doctrines which Protestants denied.
This indulgence is applicable only to the souls in purgatory. Christmas is coming. . . . .
Getting up at four o'clock every morning is sheer purgatory.
She suffered greatly in her final years, yet always offered it up for the poor suffering souls in purgatory.
For Arthur, separation from Alec was purgatory, although the pair believed they were in touch telepathically.
a purgatory of drug abuse.
No wonder he told reporters last week: ‘It was pure purgatory.’
The Dubliner had been loitering in football's equivalent of purgatory since his high-profile sacking from Leeds United in June 2002.
At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
This extra bit of sleep, gratuitous as it is, makes me think of the refrigerium, or heavenly refreshment, that souls in purgatory are said to enjoy on occasion.
Lastly, for the errors brought in from false or uncertain history, what is all the legend of fictitious miracles in the lives of the saints; and all the histories of apparitions and ghosts alleged by the doctors of the Roman Church, to make good their doctrines of hell and purgatory, the power of exorcism, and other doctrines which have no warrant, neither in reason nor Scripture; as also all those traditions which they call the unwritten word of Leviathan
We Catholics believe in the purgatory and the heavens.
His congenital smirk is best described as the sort of grin that, if named, would guarantee this comment a term in Moderator Purgatory. Blunt Steps Down - Swampland - TIME.com
Mr. Aholiah Luce, of the Purgatory Hollow section of Smyrna, stood at bay on the dirt-banking of his "castle," that is, a sagged-in old hulk of a house of which only the L was habitable. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
Had deprived her, condemned her to the purgatory of a half-life without them. WALL GAMES
Because of the doctrine of purgatory, the dead remained closely tied to the community of the living, linked by bonds of prayer and intercession.
Christina believed she was released from the afterlife to pray for the souls in purgatory.
A person who has never seen the picture that was now under my eye, who had read of a place consecrated by the devotion of ages, towards which the tide of human superstition had flowed for twelve centuries, might imagine that St. Patrick's Purgatory, secluded in its sacred island, would have all the venerable and gothic accompaniments of olden time; and its ivied towers and belfried steeples, its carved windows, and cloistered arches, its long dark aisles and fretted vaults would have risen out of the water, rivalling Iona or Lindisfarn; but nothing of the sort was to be seen. The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
It is perhaps necessary to add that the superstition illustrated by the following story, namely, that the corpse last buried is obliged, during his juniority of interment, to supply his brother tenants of the churchyard in which he lies, with fresh water to allay the burning thirst of purgatory, is prevalent throughout the south of Ireland. The Purcell Papers
If you died with sins unforgiven, you'd need to spend a certain amount of time in a place called Purgatory before finally going to Heaven.
Now that the court has responded about "political purgatory" and has announced its willingness to act "expeditiously", maybe you and Melissa should have a little chat. Dear President Obama, 3 federal judges say you must act to end 'political purgatory' for 23 million
I might add that none of this will be truly impressive until scientists find a way to measure the effects on souls in purgatory, traditionally the chief target of intercessory prayer.
Founded either by individuals, guilds, or corporations, chantries were endowments for offering masses usually near a person's tomb or effigy, for the soul's repose in purgatory.
I did not call her unfeeling long; for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master: as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals. Wuthering Heights
According to the log book, there is no date for an end to the team's purgatory - the word ‘indefinite’ leaps off the page where their start date should be inserted.
And the ghost, might he then have made his way through purgatory -- wherever that was -- to whatever it is that lies beyond? INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
It is enough that "my lud" has a handle to his name, and Murray Hill shoddyocracy will wine and dine and toady him, and perhaps for his title marry him to some sweet, pure and good American girl, whose life hereafter will be a purgatory to herself and a mutual misery to both. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
But yet they that begot and brought forth that our old ancient purgatory pick-purse; that that was swaged and cooled with a Franciscan's cowl, put upon a dead man's back, to the fourth part of his sins; that that was utterly to be spoiled, and of none other but of our most prudent lord Sermons on the Card
Once they had ventured to interrupt the discourse of a preacher on the topic of purgatory, by loud expressions of dissent; but when on the next day the subject was resumed, numbers of hearers left the church with cries of "_au fol, au fol_," and forced those who would have arrested them in the name of the Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, to seek refuge from a shower of stones in an adjoining monastery. [ The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
The brunt of each episode consists of Ruby locked in her antiseptic queendom, constantly bossing Max around in a purgatory of pushiness.
Christianity believes in the purificatory fires of the purgatory, and the eternal fires of hell.
In effect, Stephen Greenblatt's latest book Hamlet in Purgatory has taken on the challenge of defamiliarizing the most famous play in Western literature by placing it in its proper theological setting.
Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those priests who, in the case of the dying, reserve canonical penances for purgatory.
And then there were the endless church suppers where you could always find a big bowl of it in potluck purgatory alongside the green jiggling Jell-O and fruit salad made with tiny marshmallows. End of winter carrot and raisin salad | Homesick Texan
I've been on a diet for two weeks now, and it's purgatory!
I like the idea of purgatory because I see it as parallel to reincarnation - both acknowledge the ongoingness of life, in which a kind of cleansing takes place.
Had deprived her, condemned her to the purgatory of a half-life without them. WALL GAMES

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