Priests who left the Priesthood and Married now in Purgatory
After I came home from Midnight Mass, I was reading from the Gospel of St Luke when I suddenly found myself with an angel in Purgatory.
Many souls had gathered there, and one of them I noticed was a tall gentleman who was a priest.
I said to the souls, “If you don’t mind, I want to talk to this Father, the priest, privately .”
I asked the priest, “What happened? Why are you here?”
He said, “I married. I went out of the priesthood. I thought it was good. I thought that it was a blessing. I thought that it would please God.”
I said to him, “No, you should never have married. You were chosen to follow our Lord and to serve Him only.”
He thought that his marriage, in God’s eyes, was good. It is good for others but not for priests.
He said, “I have to stay here for a long time.”
He was lying down on something. He kept coming to me to talk to me. I felt like I was talking to him as if he were alive.
I said, “I will pray for you and do my best, but I don’t know how long you will have to stay here to do your penance because you offended our Lord very much by doing that.”
He wasn’t really in the darkness. There were a lot of groups of souls, and he was among them.
He said, “There are many like me here.”
Sadly, it is the woman who deceives the man, and he steps out of the priesthood. He thought God would still be happy about this, but He is not.
He was lamenting when he said, “Now I am very sick. I am really sick.”
The sickness is the suffering that the soul must endure as penance.
The souls come forward now because they become so desperate for help. It looks like God gives them the strength to come forward and to ask for help. I do pray for priests both alive and dead.