
The Theology of Evil and Eternity: Nefarious, Screwtape and World Wars
COMMENTARY: Different demons for different times, but with a strangely similar message.
COMMENTARY: Different demons for different times, but with a strangely similar message.
‘To die in mortal sin … means remaining separated from God forever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion … is called hell.’ (CCC 1033)
During their lifetimes, some saints were given a peek into the happiness of heaven and the horrors of hell.
SCRIPTURES & ART: Heaven will always be heaven and hell will always be hell because one place is full of love and the other devoid of it.
If you were the only person in the whole world in the whole of human history whom God needed to redeem, he would have sent his only-begotten Son.
“Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven — through a purification or immediately — or immediate and everlasting damnation.” (CCC 1022)
Your time on earth is fixed, and constantly diminishing — take life and death seriously
Important facts to know about this popular saint.
“God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want ‘any to perish, but all to come to repentance.’” (CCC 1037)
The Four Last Things end with a period, not a question mark.
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