Today morning at Holy Mass in Italian what came across to me as I read the First Reading at the lectern was on how riches and attachments can separate us from God and lead us to eternal death.
The Gospel Reading specifically refers to a Hell with fire where the worm, the human body and life as it is known there does not end. The human body and those of reptiles and worms do not corrupt and perish as on earth and the fire which burns them is never put out.
We will have our spiritual body there which will be similar to the one on earth.We will be able to feel sensations. There will be the ability to think and reason and feel emotions.We will not be able to have some emotions which are normal and permitted on earth.The heat of the fire is always there and the spiritual body will never corrupt for all eternity.
Others with their spiritual body enjoy the love of God, the peace and beauty of Heaven.There too we will have sensations and emotions and be able to think and reason. We will still be able to love, unlike as in Hell.
All this is not part of homilies in churches here.
They will not talk about this reality for example at the Church of Santa Suzzana in Rome.The Paulist Fathers at this church for the liberal American community support the Left, whose values are pro-Satan.
I have spoken to some of the lay people associated with the Church. There is no mortal sin and Hell for them.
Since they believe there are some addictions and attachments which they can never ever be free of. The First Reading today refers to the rich and their attachments.
ST.TERESA OF AVILA'S VISION OF HELL
Some considerable time after our Lord
had bestowed upon me the graces I have been describing, and others also of a
higher nature, I was one day in prayer when I found myself in a moment, without
knowing how, plunged apparently into hell. I understood that it was our Lord's
will I should see the place which the devils kept in readiness for me, and which
I had deserved by my sins . It was but a moment, but it seems to me
impossible I should ever forget it, even if I were to live many
years.
The entrance seemed
to be by a long narrow pass, like a furnace, very low, dark, and close. The
ground seemed to be saturated with water, mere mud, exceedingly foul, sending
forth pestilential odors, and covered with loathsome vermin. At the end was a
hollow place in the wall, like a closet, and in that I saw myself confined. All
this was even pleasant to behold in comparison with what I felt there. There is
no exaggeration in what I am saying.
But as to what I then felt, I do not
know where to begin, if I were to describe it; it is utterly inexplicable. I
felt a fire in my soul. I cannot see how it is possible to describe it. My
bodily sufferings were unendurable. I have undergone most painful sufferings in
this life, and, as the physicians say, the greatest that can be borne, such as
the contraction of my sinews when I was paralyzed, without speaking of others of
different kinds, yea, even those of which I have also spoken, inflicted on me by
Satan; yet all these were as nothing in comparison with what I felt then,
especially when I saw that there would be no intermission, nor any end to
them.
These sufferings
were nothing in comparison with the anguish of my soul, a sense of oppression,
of stifling, and of pain so keen, accompanied by so hopeless and cruel an
infliction, that I know not how to speak of it. If I said that the soul is
continually being torn from the body it would be nothing,--for that implies the
destruction of life by the hands of another; but here it is the soul itself that
is tearing itself in pieces. I cannot describe that inward fire or that despair,
surpassing all torments and all pain. I did not see who it was that tormented
me, but I felt myself on fire, and torn to pieces, as it seemed to me; and, I
repeat it, this inward fire and despair are the greatest torments of
all.
Left in that
pestilential place, and utterly without the power to hope for comfort, I could
neither sit nor lie down: there was no room. I was placed as it were in a hole
in the wall; and those walls, terrible to look on of themselves, hemmed me in on
every side. I could not breathe. There was no light, but all was thick darkness.
I do not understand how it is; though there was no light, yet everything that
can give pain by being seen was visible.
Our Lord at that time would not let me see more of hell.
Afterwards I had another most fearful vision, in which I saw the punishment of
certain sins. They were most horrible to look at; but, because I felt none of
the pain, my terror was not so great. In the former vision our Lord made me
really feel those torments, and that anguish of spirit, just as if I had been
suffering them in the body there. I know not how it was, but I understood
distinctly that it was a great mercy that our Lord would have me see with mine
own eyes the very place from which His compassion saved me. I have listened to
people speaking of these things, and I have at other times dwelt on the various
torments of hell, though not often, because my soul made no progress by the way
of fear; and I have read of the diverse tortures, and how the devils tear the
flesh with red-hot pincers. But all is as nothing before this; it is a wholly
different matter. In short, the one is a reality, the other a picture; and all
burning here in this life is as nothing in comparison with the fire that is
there.
I was so terrified by that
vision,--and that terror is on me even now while I am writing,--that though it
took place nearly six years ago, the natural warmth of my body is chilled by
fear even now when I think of it. And so, amid all the pain and suffering which
I may have had to bear, I remember no time in which I do not think that all we
have to suffer in this world is as nothing. It seems to me that we complain
without reason. I repeat it, this vision was one of the grandest mercies of our
Lord. It has been to me of the greatest service, because it has destroyed my
fear of trouble and of the contradiction of the world, and because it has made
me strong enough to bear up against them, and to give thanks to our Lord, who
has been my Deliverer, as it now seems to me, from such fearful and everlasting
pains.
Ever since that
time, as I was saying, everything seems endurable in comparison with one instant
of suffering such as those I had then to bear in hell. I am filled with fear
when I see that, after frequently reading books which describe in some manner
the pains of hell, I was not afraid of them, nor made any account of them. Where
was I? How could I possibly take any pleasure in those things which led me
directly to so dreadful a place? Blessed for ever be Thou, O my God! and, oh,
how manifest is it that Thou didst love me much more than I did love Thee! How
often, O Lord, didst Thou save me from that fearful prison! and how I used to
get back to it contrary to Thy will.
It was that vision that filled me with the very great distress
which I feel at the sight of so many lost souls, especially of the
Lutherans,--for they were once members of the Church by baptism,--and also gave
me the most vehement desires for the salvation of souls; for certainly I believe
that, to save even one from those overwhelming torments, I would most willingly
endure many deaths. If here on earth we see one whom we specially love in great
trouble or pain, our very nature seems to bid us compassionate him; and if those
pains be great, we are troubled ourselves. What, then, must it be to see a soul
in danger of pain, the most grievous of all pains, for ever? Who can endure it?
It is a thought no heart can bear without great anguish. Here we know that pain
ends with life at last, and that there are limits to it; yet the sight of it
moves our compassion so greatly. That other pain has no ending; and I know not
how we can be calm, when we see Satan carry so many souls daily away.
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