13 Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. 14 How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it! 15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Matthew 13-15
I was at day 1 of our parish mission last night. One main theme was how many people try to live with one foot in the world and one in heaven. They think they’re doing everything They need to do to get to heaven but that the one foot’ in the world determines how they live their lives. It’s daunting, but each step makes a difference.
Jesus did the will of His Father in heaven perfectly. Therefore Christ said: “The Father in heaven is greater than I.”
The Blessed Virgin prayed to do the will of the Father in heaven perfectly even before her Immaculate Conception.
Every day souls must pray to do the will of The Father in heaven perfectly.” Our Father in heaven”, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Makes me feel about the same way Francis feels when some say they like to think of the chair of St Peter is empty…
Angry. – who are you to determine that?
This is the warmed-up error of von Balthasar (and others, no doubt): Dare we hope that hell is empty? Trivial theologians like him contemplate these questions in a purely academic way. They have never really faced true and complete evil in the flesh. (Thankfully, few of us have.) Apparently, they cannot conceive of actual malice, profound and intractable.
Look up, if you can stomach it, the final end of a monster like Carl Panzram and then say, if you can, “There’s no way he’s in hell.”
(Unfortunately, for half-rate theologians, the Sacred Scriptures are simply an element to play with, to wring some tortured interpretation from the words that fits their fancy. That it is and contains immutable truth at the express will of God would be, sad to say, laughable to them.)
All of this seems to be in line with that popular trend of wondering just what all the Church got wrong for the first 2000 years. Which, from what I’ve heard, isn’t impressing those outside the Church as much as it might have in the past.
Francis synchophants think hell is empty, except for Latin Mass devotees and Donald Trump supporters.
In The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey’s character, Verbal Kint:
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
Above our pay grade, but perfectly said.
Our Lady of Fatima said that souls were falling into hell like snow falling.