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From SSA to Glory
Terri Thomas Terri Thomas

From SSA to Glory

Our crosses are used by God to give us the chance to live by Faith and so to increase our capacity to be filled with his love for all eternity - to increase the degree of glory we will enjoy in heaven. Do not rob people that experience SSA of the chance for God to use the cross they carry in this way. Do not dumb the Catholic Faith down to a natural level when God is offering them so much more! God will raise up great saints from those who are willing to deny themselves in this way!

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What the Church Teaches about Heaven
Terri Thomas Terri Thomas

What the Church Teaches about Heaven

Every soul who has died in the love of God will enter heaven, either immediately after death or following a purification in purgatory. All souls will be perfectly happy in heaven, but some souls will enjoy a higher degree of happiness than others.

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Six Reasons We Have to Carry Our Crosses
Terri Thomas Terri Thomas

Six Reasons We Have to Carry Our Crosses

"If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me" (Matthew 16:24).

When Jesus uses the word “cross” he is referring to suffering as an “instrument of salvation.” This makes sense in reference to his suffering and death but many Christians wonder, isn’t what Jesus did enough? Why do we have to carry our crosses?

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