Tag: heaven

• Is My Enchiridion Indulgentiarum Account Balanced?

  [Purgatory. Credit: Shown Above] Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. ~~Patrick Egan Fantastical Essays v. 1 (2024) In Saranac Lake, New York, on a warm and humid day in 2017, an elderly woman crossed Church Street safely because of something Sister John James said to me in 1957. This was no small feat because…

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  April 11, 2024

  Adirondacks, brotherly love,, Childhood, death, Everyday Events, Melancholy Thoughts, North Country Life, owego ny, Premonitions, Religion, satire, The Pope

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• All Souls’ Day

  The day after Halloween is All Saints’ Day (in the Catholic Church calendar).  The next day is All Souls’ Day. The soul.  Many agree it is the mystical core of our being…our existence.  This is the blank slate that gets stained and marked and written upon through our deeds in life.  When our corporeal bodies…

  patrickjegan

  November 1, 2014

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• Waving My Way Out Of Purgatory

  I’m absolutely convinced that I’m going to Purgatory. I know for certain that I’m going to Purgatory. Even my high school girlfriend told me I was going to Purgatory. “Why am I going there?” I would ask her. “Because.” She would reply. “I saw the way you looked at me just now.” “But I didn’t…

  patrickjegan

  July 4, 2014

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