The Importance of Prayer in the Life of the Dead

"We don't hold for something like apocata stasis, this original teaching that souls gradually kind of cool from their rebellion and then are returned to a state in which they can choose for God or affirm their love of God. The only thing or the only change that we might observe among the damned is that their punishments could be lessened," he says. "So there are reasons to believe that God's ponderous mercy might hang on the souls of those who have gone before us."