“Purgatory: perhaps the deepest but also the most blissful kind of suffering.  The terrible torture of having to settle now all the things we have dreaded a whole life long.  The doors we have frantically held shut are now torn open.  But all the while this knowledge: now for the first time I will be able to do it–that ultimate thing in me, that total thing.  Now I can feel my wings growing; now I am fully becoming myself.” (Hans Urs von Balthasar)

May all the souls of our beloved dead quickly come to the place of becoming fully themselves in God . . .