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  SMOKE IN THIS LIFE, NOT THE NEXT Thu, Sep 24 — The Power of the Mass Cigar: Factory Smokes Maduro by Drew Estate (around $2–$3) Drink: Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond (around $18–$20) Reflection: Do I truly grasp the infinite value of a single Mass offered for the dead? The drama of St. Vincent Ferrer’s sister reaches its staggering completion. Snatched from the precipice of damnation at her final breath, she nonetheless found herself enveloped in the intolerable flames of Purgatory, sentenced by divine justice to suffer until the Last Judgment. Yet eternity met time at the altar. Through the infinite treasury of thirty Holy Masses—the same sacrifice of Calvary made present again—centuries of agonizing purification were collapsed into thirty days, releasing her into the company of soaring angels. What a sobering, magnificent reality: the Holy Sacrifice holds the power to shatter the heaviest debts of justice when human efforts fall completely flat. Tonight calls for an honest, w...