Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Um, I give fair warning, this may be a bit nitpicky:
I’m not so sure that “seeing” Hell for a second would inspire anyone in 2025.
It’s not that she’s wrong exactly. Yet I consider that we’ve had R-rated and X-rated movies for some decades now. We routinely see Commandments being broken; the fifth, sixth, and seventh suffering the most abuse. Any average Joe over 18 years of age may “experience” of snippet of Hell. We are comparatively….anesthetized …to seeing the ravages of damnation.
Only when we truly, completely, recognize the unrevokable nature of Hell, that once there, …one never ceases suffering the …hellish…nature of Hell, might one repent. A “vision” of Hell with a sense of deep, dark foreboding might be required.
Must have been one of those rigid Latin Mass fanatics.
John, we see people settling for the lesser goods that distract them from the greater ones. At worst, we see what the human or demonic mind can twist the desires for lesser goods into.
“You will believe in hell when you get there.” Mother Angelica.
Hell is the loss of the Beautiful, the True and the Good.
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