Sister Faustina describes the pains of hell to us

 

From his diary we learn the following ... 20.x.1936. (II ° Notebook)

Today, under the guidance of an angel, I was in the depths of hell. It is a place of great torment throughout its terrifyingly large extent. These are the various pains that I have seen: the first pain, the one that constitutes hell, is the loss of God; the second, the constant remorse of conscience; the third, the awareness that that fate will never change; the fourth punishment is fire which penetrates the soul but does not annihilate it; it is a terrible pain: it is a purely spiritual fire kindled by the wrath of God; the fifth punishment is continuous darkness, a horrible suffocating stench, and although it is dark the demons and the damned souls see each other and see all the evil of others and their own; the sixth penalty is the constant company of satan; the seventh punishment is tremendous despair, hatred of God, imprecations, curses, blasphemies. These are pains that all the damned suffer together, but this is not the end of the torments. There are particular torments for the various souls which are the torments of the senses. Every soul with that which has sinned is tormented in a tremendous and indescribable way. There are horrible caves, chasms of torments, where each torture is different from the other. I would have died at the sight of those horrible tortures, if the omnipotence of God had not sustained me. The sinner knows that with the sense with which he sins he will be tortured for all eternity. I write this by order of God, so that no soul justifies itself by saying that there is no hell, or that no one has ever been and no one knows how it is. I, Sister Faustina, by order of God have been in the abyss of hell, in order to tell souls and testify that hell exists. Now I can't talk about this. I have God's orders to leave it in writing. The demons showed great hatred against me, but by God's order they had to obey me. What I have written is a faint shadow of the things I have seen. One thing I noticed and that is that most of the souls that are there are souls who did not believe that there was hell. When I returned to myself, I could not recover from the fright, at the thought that some souls there suffer so terribly, for this reason I pray with greater fervor for the conversion of sinners, and I incessantly invoke God's mercy for them. O my Jesus, I prefer to agonize until the end of the world in the greatest tortures, rather than offend You with the smallest sin.
Sister Faustina Kowalska