Originally published at Eight Hobbits
Shadows: Visible & Invisible available on Amazon
Just in time for Halloween, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day, the Catholic Teen Book authors will have you huddling under your blankets with their latest anthology. These seven Hallowtide stories for teens and adults have one theme: purgatory. And it is scarier than a one-way trip through a haunted house.
Strange noises in the loft of a church, a medieval mystery in a nunnery, and a young man doomed to walk through fiery heat in a cemetery all beg the intimidating question: what is beyond death? The follow-up question would be: will anyone care for me when I am gone?
As fun as it is to celebrate Halloween with costumes and candy, there is a very real need to pray for the dead. The beginning of understanding that strange state called “purgatory” is in the Bible, in Maccabees. Catholics believe that every person who dies with sin on their soul must undergo a cleansing, a time called purgatory where the soul must wait to enter Heaven. Souls in purgatory are assured of
