March 30, 2018
Meditation on Hell in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
FIFTH EXERCISE
IT IS A MEDITATION ON HELL
It contains in it, after the Preparatory Prayer and two Preludes, five Points and one Colloquy:
Prayer. Let the Preparatory Prayer be the usual one.
First
Prelude. The first Prelude is the composition, which is here to see
with the sight of the imagination the length, breadth and depth of
Hell.
Second
Prelude. The second, to ask for what I want: it will be here to ask for
interior sense of the pain which the damned suffer, in order that, if,
through my faults, I should forget the love of the Eternal Lord, at
least the fear of the pains may help me not to come into sin.
First
Point. The first Point will be to see with the sight of the imagination
the great fires, and the souls as in bodies of fire.
Second
Point. The second, to hear with the ears wailings, howlings, cries,
blasphemies against Christ our Lord and against all His Saints.
Third Point. The third, to smell with the smell smoke, sulphur, dregs and putrid things.
Fourth Point. The fourth, to taste with the taste bitter things, like tears, sadness and the worm of conscience.
Fifth Point. The fifth, to touch with the touch; that is to say, how the fires touch and burn the souls.
Colloquy.
Making a Colloquy to Christ our Lord, I will bring to memory the souls
that are in Hell, some because they did not believe the Coming, others
because, believing, they did not act according to His Commandments;
making three divisions...
- The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, [1914] http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/seil/seil15.html
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The
entrance it seems to me was similar to a very long and narrow alleyway,
like an oven, low and dark and confined; the floor seemed to me to
consist of dirty, muddy water emitting foul stench and swarming with
putrid vermin...The
bodily pains were so unbearable that though I had suffered excruciating
ones in this life and according to what doctors say, the worst that can
be suffered on earth for all my nerves were shrunken when I was
paralyzed, plus many other sufferings of many kinds that I endured and
even some as I said, caused by the devil, these were all nothing in
comparison with the ones I experienced there...-St.Teresa of Avila's description of Hell.
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STUFF HAPPENS...GO
TO CONFESSION NOW WHILE YOU CAN : There are millions of people in Hell
today who thought they had one more day to repent.
There are millions of people in Hell today who thought they had one more day to repent.
from Dympha Road
http://dymphnaroad.blogspot.it/2016/09/stuff-happensgo-to-confession-now-while.htm
There are millions of people in Hell today who thought they had one more day to repent.
from Dympha Road
http://dymphnaroad.blogspot.it/2016/09/stuff-happensgo-to-confession-now-while.htm
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