Picking on Friends, Again...

No, TSO, Purgatory is not beyond time. Heaven and Hell are beyond time. Eventually Purgatory will come to an end. Things move in Purgatory. Purgatory is sort of like University, but a University where everyone will eventually graduate. It might take a hundred thousand years, but everyone there will eventually walk across the Celestial stage, shake hands with Dean St. Peter and Chancellor God, and get handed their diploma as the angels hum Elgar. And, of course, the saints already in Heaven will be there, snapping pictures, and giving you advice on how to spend your eternity.

"Today, dear graduates of Purgatory, will mark the most important transition in your life. Perhaps you were only here for a few minutes, perhaps you have been here for a thousand years, but today you leave this place, never to step foot in it again. I doubt that any of you will miss it, but you will undoubtedly remember these moments as profoundly life-changing, cleansing, refreshing, the end of one era and the beginning of the next..."

Now, imagine that last scene as done by some Prottie or JW illustrator, and you might just have an image so horrible that it will suffice for your Friday penance, thus allowing you to eat a steak without an extra decade of the rosary.