"Pope Francis told Catholics to ask God for the grace to die in our spiritual
"home", within the heart of the Church. We are all sinners, he said, but the
Church is like a mother who takes us just as we are, even with our stains, and
makes us clean.
Read more.[Mike Gendron comment] What a contrast this is with the faith of born-again Christians. Our hope is not in the church but in the Lord Jesus Christ. Only by faith in His precious blood can we be cleansed from all sin (1 John 1:7). When Jesus obtained purification for sin, He sat down at the right hand of God in heaven (Heb. 1:3). For a true follower of Christ, death is but a passage into the glory of heaven. At the moment of death, we are absent from the body and present with our Lord (2 Cor. 5:8). Alleluia!" Pro-Gospel.org
