Purgatory is not a place. It is true that countless visions and stories, even the most sublime poetry, depict heaven, hell, and purgatory as places, even places with various regions and divisions. They project an entire photography of the world beyond. Those who pass through death do not arrive at places. Their only place then is God, or more precisely, the eternal encounter with God. The purification that Christian theology speaks of is an event, not a place.
Is This All There Is? page 162
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