The brightest colour upon His palette is of no use to the Artist if it refuses to blend with the others.HUGH REDWOOD IN GOD IN THE SHADOWS (HODDER & STOUGHTON, 1932)With so many witnesses in a great cloud all around us, we too, then, should throw off everything that weighs us down and the sin that clings so closely, and with perseverance keep running in the race which lies ahead of us.HEBREWS 12:1If “Purgatory” is simply purification through fire in the encounter with the Lord, Judge and Saviour, how can a third person intervene, even if he or she is particularly close to the other? When we ask such a question, we should recall that no man is an island, entire of itself. Our lives are involved with one another, through innumerable interactions they are linked together. No