Changes

 Some Church Fathers, such as stSt. Cyprian and blessed St. [[Augustine of Hippo]], seemed to believe in a purification after death. AnyqayHowever, the character of this purification is never clarified, and especially (as stSt. [[Mark of Ephesus ]] underlined at the [[Council of Florence]]) it seems there's is no true distinction between heaven, hell and the so-called purgatory: all souls partake differently in the same mystical fire (which, according to stSt. [[Isaac the Syrianof Syria]], is God's Love)but because of their spiritual change they are bound to different reactions: bliss for those who are in communion with him; purification for those in the process of being deified; and remorse for those who hated God during their earthly lives. Because of this confusion and inability of the human language to understand these concepts and have a certain traditional belief on life after death, the Church refrains from any theological speculation, just reaffirming the unbroken Tradition of prayers for the dead, the certainty of immortality, the inexistence rejection of reincarnation , and the communion of the saints, both dead Saints (those living and alive, those who have fallen asleep in the Lord) in the same Body of Christ which is the Church. Private speculation is thus still possible as it was in the time of the Church Fathers.