[quote:3er306b8]The whole purgatory concept is just so foreign and false to me. It basically says that with enough prayer and money (sacrifice) someone can get to heaven [/quote:3er306b8]
Ummm…how on earth would you get that notion about money? It is nowhere written in anything you posted.
Read this about purgatory first: http://www.aboutcatholics.com/viewpage.php?story=29 then we can talk. 
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Also, I don’t see anything in those passages against purgatory. But one also has to understand the teaching on it in order to get it.