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By: Gospel Living: Focusing Presence | St. John

Gospel Living: Focusing Presence | St. John — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:16:22 +0000

[...] How Many Souls will be Saved?I once heard a comment from a friend who was preparing a homily. He was finding it difficult to preach on the “fact” that there will be so few in heaven. He has no problem on preaching about death, judgment, Heaven and Hell; but, he is sad that there will be so few saved.He is not alone in his belief. Some of the great theologians and saints of the Church have written the same opinion regarding the population of Heaven. But is it a fact? And whether it is a fact or speculation, how can we benefit from considering the question?,,,more [...]

By: kat411

kat411 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:23:53 +0000

My feeling is that it doesn’t affect my life here on earth. That it is not ours to know. I feel it is not necessary for us to know this in order to live the Catholic life we know we are called to live. Who’s where in eternity does not in any way change the Gospel message for me. Whether certain people are in heaven or hell in no way changes what Jesus has told me to do. I enjoyed the article. I think this article makes the point that when all is said and done it is still just speculation on our part and that we must strive toward Heaven at all times and encourage others to as well. And the leave the judgement of humanity to God.

By: Shin

Shin — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:33:55 +0000

‘Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.’

St. Augustine, Doctor and Father of the Church

By: bilbannon

bilbannon — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:12:29 +0000

Saints had consensus because they copied each others’ opinions at times. For example, Augustine said it was venial sin to ask for the marriage debt beyond begetting but innocent to pay the marriage debt. Aquinas copies him exactly 700 years later. The Church in accepting the use of the infertile times implicitly rejects their belief.

Better to put the Word of God first before Saints. Go to Rev.7:9: ” After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches* in their hands.”

So many will be there in Heaven, they will be uncountable according to God. You’ll notice that Christ as to the narrow way passage is talking about living people not people in their last seconds before death. God can save many fools in the last seconds if He wills it. Christ is not excluding this.

By: Shin

Shin — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:37:06 +0000

We should always head with greatest reverence and turn to the saints for information.

They will have the answers to not only this question but so many priceless others, and guide through all times of confusion with a clear light.

What is their consensus?

‘So vast a number of miserable souls perish, and so comparatively few are saved!’

St. Philip Neri

‘The majority of men shall not see God, excepting those who live justly, purified by righteousness and by every other virtue.’

St. Justin Martyr

‘It is certain that few are saved.’

St. Augustine, Doctor and Father of the Church

‘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. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!’

Matthew 7:13-14

‘Poor Judas! Above seventeen hundred years have elapsed since he has been in Hell, and his Hell is still only beginning.’

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:02:25 +0000

A problem: “First – Hell is real and it is everlasting.”
Rev 20:13 ff. (Douay)”And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one according to their works. And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the pool of fire.
Baltimore Catechism 2:
413. Q. What is Hell? A. Hell is a state to which the wicked are condemned, and in which they are deprived of the sight of God for all eternity, and are in dreadful torments.
417. Q. Will our bodies share in the reward or punishment of our souls? A. Our bodies will share in the reward or punishment of our souls, because through the resurrection they will again be united to them.
So: How can anything- especially a human body- keep on living in a “pool of fire”?
Ro 6:23, ibid. “For the wages of sin is death.”
If it doesn’t keep on living, how can it be “punished”, by torture or any other agency?
Ec 9:5,10, ibid. “For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten. Whatsoever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither you are hastening.”
If it can be punished, does not this violate the principle of double jeopardy, considered a good thing in “civilized” countries?
Ro 6:23, ibid. “For the wages of sin is death. [not 'death, then torture']” and Ro 6:7 “For he that is dead is justified from sin.”

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By: cofears

cofears — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:56:18 +0000

In September, of 1995, my wife, my daughter and I went to a Marian conference in Chicago. While we there listening to the speakers, a thought came to my mind about how souls go to hell. Now no one was talking about this subject, for some reason I just started thinking about it. Before I go on, I must tell you that I have read several messages that state that God does not send souls to hell, that the soul sends itself to hell, and I had wondered how this could happen. Well as I said, I was thinking about this, and it is like this, darkness is sin and light is God. Now if a person lives in a room or cave of compete darkness and has been there for along time, when that person comes into the light, he or she can not stand the light so the person goes back in to the dark room. This is like a soul that has lived in sin, when the soul dies, it cannot stand to look at God, Who is pure Light, so the soul drives itself into hell. Now the next day I was praying before Jesus in the blessed sacrament, the Holy Eucharist, when I began to think of this again and it was like this, a soul who lives in sin lives in darkness, but if the soul, while still living would let some light in, then when the soul died it would be like a person, who was in a dark room but let some light in. So then when the person went into the Light, he or she would be able to squint their eyes and look at the light and eventually be able to open their eyes all the way. This would be a soul that, when it died was not pure enough to go to heaven, so it went to purgatory. All souls are different some have to squint harder then others and some can adjust faster to the light and some live always in the light, their eyes are wide open, these go straight to heaven.
Also I recommend everyone to read The Testimony of Gloria Polo at http://english.gloriapolo.net/ & STANLEY VILLAVICENCIO

By: Brother Rolf

Brother Rolf — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:32:13 +0000

All those great words without answering the question.