The prayers, candle-burning and financial gifts to the church of a person and his friends is supposed to shorten the length of time that the soul suffers in 'purgatory'. The gross error of such ideas should be established from the following:-
Maombi, kuwasha mshumaa na kutoa fedha kwenye kanisa mtu na rafiki zake imedhaniwa huweza kupunguza muda ambao roho inaweza kupata machungu katika'Purgatory’ (Toharani) kosa kubwa la mawazo haya linawekwa kutokana na ifuatavyo:-