Jiang says time in Purgatory can be shortened by the prayers of living people, which links Manfred back to the wider heavenly economy of intercession.
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"Yeah. So God is all forgiving. Okay. You have a direct connection to God and, if you get executed by the church that's bad..."
"whether the prayer is like a good prayer or just like an off -handed prayer i think there's like a"
"...because she's not willing to take the hardest classes you know living off the brown middle school again being so Turns out that was..."
"...the world is blind and you come from the world you living ones continue to assign to heaven every cause as if it were..."
"...he's a poet of the quality love tradition and he was living around the time of Dante, okay? Maybe the 13th century, okay? So,..."
"...arc was William, and the land that mourns his death for living Charles and Frederick now laments. Now he has learned how heaven loves..."
"...what the deed bounds him as having been. And but Beth's living that already in his speech, even though he hasn't yet, to his..."
"...prediction of you know what the likelihood is of me uh living another 10 years i get this from statistics the doctors you know..."
"...theater, who themselves are a diverse lot. They're not isolated, not living in what we now call a bubble. So he was he was..."
"among the living retell it i was taken by god's angel but he from hell cried you from heaven why do you deny me..."
"...is in exile from Florence and he needs to make a living, right? So basically by including families that he knows from Florence into..."
"...the dead, because I did not bear this load among the living. My face was lowered as I listened, and one of those souls..."
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