The sins that give more customers to hell

 

THE SINS THAT GIVE MORE CUSTOMERS TO HELL

LIKING TRACKS

It is particularly important to bear in mind the first diabolical pitfall, which holds many souls in Satan's slavery: it is the lack of reflection, which makes one lose sight of the purpose of life.

The devil cries out to his prey: “Life is a pleasure; you must seize all the joys that life gives you ".

Instead Jesus whispers to your heart: 'Blessed are those who weep. " (cf. Mt 5, 4) ... "To enter heaven you have to do violence." (cf. Mt 11, 12) ... "Whoever wants to come after me, deny himself, take up his cross every day and follow me." (Lk 9, 23).

The infernal enemy suggests to us: "Think of the present, because with death everything ends!".

The Lord instead exhorts you: "Remember the very new (death, judgment, hell and paradise) and you will not sin".

The man spends a good part of his time in many business and shows intelligence and shrewdness in acquiring and conserving earthly goods, but then he does not even use the crumbs of his time to reflect on the much more important needs of his soul, for which he lives in an absurd, incomprehensible and extremely dangerous superficiality, which can have frightening consequences.

The devil leads one to think: "Meditating is useless: lost time!". If today many live in sin, it is because they do not seriously reflect and never meditate on the truths revealed by God.

The fish that has already ended up in the fisherman's net, as long as it is still in the water, does not suspect that it has been caught, but when the net exits the sea, it struggles because it feels its end is near; but it's too late now. So sinners ...! As long as they are in this world they have a good time happily and do not even suspect they are in the diabolical net; they will notice when they can no longer remedy you ... as soon as they enter eternity!

If many dead people who lived without thinking about eternity could return to this world, how would their lives change!

WASTE OF GOODS

From what has been said so far and especially from the story of certain facts, it is clear what are the main sins that lead to eternal damnation, but keep in mind that it is not only these sins that send people to hell: there are many others.

For what sin did the rich epulone end up in hell? He had many goods and wasted them on banquets (waste and sin of gluttony); and moreover he remained obstinately insensitive to the needs of the poor (lack of love and avarice). Therefore, some wealthy who do not want to exercise charity tremble: even if they do not change their lives, the fate of the rich man is reserved.

The IMPURITIES '

The sin that most easily leads to hell is impurity. Sant'Alfonso says: "We go to hell even for this sin, or at least not without it".

I remember the words of the devil reported in the first chapter: 'All those who are in there, none excluded, are there with this sin or even just for this sin ”. Sometimes, if forced, even the devil tells the truth!

Jesus said to us: "Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God" (Mt 5: 8). This means that the impure not only will not see God in the other life, but even in this life they cannot feel its charm, so they lose the taste of prayer, gradually they lose the faith even without realizing it and ... without faith and without prayer they perceive more why they should do good and flee evil. So reduced, they are attracted to every sin.

This vice hardens the heart and, without a special grace, drags to final impenitence and ... to hell.

IRREGULAR WEDDINGS

God forgives any guilt, as long as there is true repentance and that is the will to put an end to one's sins and to change one's life.

Among a thousand irregular marriages (divorced and remarried, cohabiting) perhaps only someone will escape from hell, because normally they do not repent even at the point of death; in fact, if they still lived they would continue to live in the same irregular situation.

We have to tremble at the thought that almost everyone today, even those who are not divorced, consider divorce as a normal thing! Unfortunately, many now reason how the world wants and no longer how God wants.

THE SACRILEGIO

A sin that can lead to eternal damnation is sacrilege. Unfortunate one who sets out on this path! Anyone who voluntarily hides some mortal sin in confession, or confesses without the will to leave the sin or flee the next occasions, commits sacrilege. Almost always those who confess in a sacrilegious way also perform the Eucharistic sacrilege, because then they receive Communion in mortal sin.

Tell St John Bosco ...

“I found myself with my guide (the Guardian Angel) at the bottom of a precipice that ended in a dark valley. And here appears an immense building with a very high door that was closed. We touched the bottom of the precipice; a suffocating heat oppressed me; greasy, almost green smoke and flashes of blood flames rose on the walls of the building.

I asked, 'Where are we at?' 'Read the inscription on the door'. the guide replied. I looked and saw written: 'Ubi non est redemptio! In other words: `Where there is no redemption! ', meanwhile I saw that abyss plummet ... first a young man, then another and then others; everyone had written their sin on their foreheads.

The guide told me: 'Here is the main cause of these damnations: bad companions, bad books and perverse habits'.

Those poor boys were young people I knew. I asked my guide: “But therefore it is useless to work among young people if so many make this end! How to prevent all this ruin? " - “Those you have seen are still alive; but this is the current state of their souls, if they died at this moment they would certainly come here! " said the Angel.

Afterwards we entered the building; it ran with the speed of a flash. We ended up in a vast and gloomy courtyard. I read this inscription: 'Ibunt impii in ignem aetemum! ; that is: `The wicked will go into eternal fire! '.

Come with me - added the guide. He took me by the hand and led me to a door that opened. A kind of cave presented itself to my eyes, immense and full of terrifying fire, which far surpassed the fire of the earth. I cannot describe this cavern in human words in all its frightening reality.

Suddenly I began to see young people falling into the burning cave. The guide said to me: 'Impurity is the cause of the eternal ruin of many young people!'.

- But if they sinned they also confessed.

- They confessed, but the faults against the virtue of purity have confessed them badly or completely silenced. For example, one had committed four or five of these sins, but said only two or three. There are some who have committed one in childhood and have never confessed or shamed it out of shame. Others did not have the pain and the intention to change. Someone instead of doing the examination of conscience was looking for suitable words to deceive the confessor. And whoever dies in this state decides to place himself among the unrepentant culprits and will remain so for all eternity. And now do you want to see why God's mercy brought you here? - The guide lifted a veil and I saw a group of young people from this oratory that I knew well: all condemned for this fault. Among these were some who apparently had good conduct.

The guide said to me again: 'Preach always and everywhere against impurity! :. Then we talked for about half an hour on the conditions necessary to make a good confession and concluded: 'You have to change your life ... You have to change your life'.

- Now that you've seen the torments of the damned, you must feel a little hell too!

Once out of that horrible building, the guide grabbed my hand and touched the last external wall. I let out a cry of pain. When the vision stopped, I noticed that my hand was really swollen and for a week I wore the bandage. "

Father Giovan Battista Ubanni, a Jesuit, says that a woman for years, confessing, had kept silent a sin of impurity. When two Dominican priests arrived there, she who had been waiting for a foreign confessor for some time, asked one of them to listen to his confession.

After leaving the church, the companion told the confessor that he had observed that, while that woman was confessing, many snakes came out of her mouth, however a bigger snake had come out only with the head, but then had come back again. Then all the snakes that had come out also came back.

Obviously the confessor did not talk about what he had heard in Confession, but suspecting what might have happened he did everything to find that woman. When she arrived at her home, she learned that she had died as soon as she returned home. Upon hearing this, the good priest was saddened and prayed for the deceased. This appeared to him in the midst of the flames and said to him: “I am that woman who confessed this morning; but I made a sacrilege. I had a sin that I didn't feel like confessing to the priest of my country; God sent me to you, but even with you I let myself be overcome by shame and immediately the Divine Justice struck me with death as I entered the house. I am justly condemned to hell! ”. After these words the earth opened and was seen to plummet and disappear.

Father Francesco Rivignez writes (the episode is also reported by Sant'Alfonso) that in England, when there was the Catholic religion, King Anguberto had a daughter of rare beauty who had been asked to marry by several princes.

Questioned by her father if she agreed to marry, she replied that she could not because she had made the vow of perpetual virginity.

Her father obtained the dispensation from the Pope, but she remained firm in her intention not to use it and to live withdrawn at home. Her father satisfied her.

He began to live a holy life: prayers, fasts and various other penances; he received the sacraments and often went to serve the sick in a hospital. In this state of life he fell ill and died.

A woman who had been her educator, finding herself one night in prayer, heard a great noise in the room and immediately afterwards she saw a soul with the appearance of a woman in the midst of a great fire and chained among many demons ...

- I am the unhappy daughter of King Anguberto.

- But how, you damned with such a holy life?

- Rightly I'm damned ... because of me. As a child I fell into a sin against purity. I went to confession, but shame closed my mouth: instead of humbly accusing my sin, I covered it up so that the confessor did not understand anything. The sacrilege has been repeated many times. On my deathbed I told the confessor, vaguely, that I had been a great sinner, but the confessor, ignoring the true state of my soul, forced me to dismiss this thought as a temptation. Shortly afterwards I expired and was condemned for all eternity to the flames of hell.

That said, it disappeared, but with so much noise that it seemed to drag the world and leaving in that room a repulsive smell that lasted several days.

Hell is the testimony of the respect that God has for our freedom. Hell cries out the constant danger in which our life finds itself; and shouts in such a way as to exclude any lightness, shouts in a constant way to exclude any hastiness, any superficiality, because we are always in danger. When they announced the episcopate to me, the first word I said was this: "But I'm afraid to go to hell."

(Cardinal Giuseppe Siri)