What is that intermediate state of those souls that cannot receive the reward of their meritorious life owing to some obstacle?
It is called purgatory (LXXI. 6; Appendix, II.).
What souls are in purgatory?
The souls of the just who die in a state of grace, but who at the moment of death have not given satisfaction to God for the temporal punishment due to sin (ibid.).
Purgatory then is a place of expiation where one must satisfy the justice of God before being admitted to the reward of heaven?
Yes; and there could be nothing more in harmony with the mercy and justice of God (ibid.).
How is the mercy of God shown in the expiation of purgatory?
Because even after their death God gives the just the means of satisfying His justice. God's mercy is also shown by the communion of saints in that He permits the living to offer up in the form of suffrages their own prayers, good works, and penances for the benefit of the souls in purgatory.
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