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| One day, just as I had awakened, when I was putting myself in the
presence of God, I was suddenly overwhelmed by despair. Complete
darkness in the soul. I fought as best I could till noon...I fell to
the ground, despair flooding my whole soul. I suffered terrible
tortures in no way different to the torments of hell. (24) |
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| One day, I saw two roads. One was broad, covered with sand and
flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked
along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the end
without realising it. And at the end of the raods there was a horrible
precipice; that is the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it;
as they walked, so they fell. And their number was so great that it
was impossible to count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a
path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the
people who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of
suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up
immediately and went on. At the end of the road there was a
magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness, and all these
souls entered there. At the very first instant they forgot all their
sufferings. (153) |
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| Sr. Faustina is 'transported'
to Hell - |
| Today I was led by an Angel to the chasms of
hell. It is a place of real torture; how awesomely large
and extensive it is! The kinds of tortures I saw: the
first torture that constitutes hell
is the loss of God; the second is
perpetual remorse of conscience; the
third is that one's condition will
never change; the fourth
is the fire that will penetrate the soul without
destroying it - a terrible suffering, since it is a
purely spiritual fire, ....the fifth
torture is continual darkness and a
terrible suffocating smell, and, despite the darkness,
the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and
all the evil, both of others and their own; the
sixth torture is the constant
company of Satan; the seventh
torture is horrible despair, hatred
of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies. These are the
tortures suffered by all the damned together, but that is
not the end of the sufferings. There are special
tortures destined for particular
souls. These are the torments of the senses. Each soul
undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings, related
to the manner in which it has sinned. There are caverns
and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from
another. I would have died at the very sight of these
tortures if the omnipotence of God had not supported me.
Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout
all eternity, in those senses which he made use of to sin.
I am writing this at the command of
God, so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there
is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no
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| I, Sister Faustina, by the order of God, have
visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls
about it and testify to its existence. I cannot speak
about it now; but I have received a command from God to
leave it in writing. The devils were full of hatred for
me, but they had to obey me at the command of God. What I
have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: that most of the
souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a
hell. When
I came to, I could hardly recover from the fright. How
terribly souls suffer there! Consequently, I pray even
more fervently for the covnersion of sinners. I
incessantly plead God's mercy upon them. O my Jesus, I
would rather be in agony until the end of the world,
amidst the greatest sufferings, than offend You by the
least sin. (741) |
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| Jesus' love for
souls. He wants to save sinners destined for Hell |
| [urge] all
souls to trust in the unfathomable abyss of My
mercy, because I want to save them all. On the
cross, the fountain of My mercy was opened wide
by the lance for all souls - no one have I
excluded! (1182) |
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| I experience great torments of soul
when I see God offended. Today I recognised that
mortal sins were being committed not far from our
door. It was evening. ...When I knelt down to
pray, however, the Lord allowed me to experience
how a soul rejected by God suffers. It seems to
me that my heart was torn to pieces, and at the
same time I understood how much such a soul
wounds the most merciful Heart of Jesus. The
poor creature does not want to accept God's mercy.
(1274) |
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| The loss of each soul
plunges Me into mortal sadness. You always console Me
when you pray for sinners. The prayer most pleasing to Me
is the prayer for the conversion of sinners. Know, My
daughter, that this prayer is always heard and answered.
(1397) |
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| Does God condemn anyone?
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| When the sisters got up at eleven o'clock at
night to keep vigil and welcome the New Year, I had been
writhing in agony since nightfall, and this lasted until
midnight. I united my sufferings with the prayers of the
sisters who were keeping vigil in the chapel and atoning
to God for the offences of sinners. (1451). When the
clock struck twelve, my soul immersed itself more deeply
in recollection, and I heard a voice in my soul: "Do not fear, My little
child, you are not alone. Fight bravely, because My arm
is supporting you; fight for the salvation of souls,
exhorting them to trust in My mercy, as that is your task
in this life and in the life to come." After
these words, I received a deeper understanding of divine
mercy. Only that soul who wants [to be damned] will be
damned, for God condemns no one. (1452) |
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| Oh, how beyond comprehension is God's mercy!
But- horror -there are also souls who voluntarily and
consciously reject and scorn this grace! Although a soul
is at the point of death, the merciful God gives the soul
that interior vivid moment, so that if the soul is
willing, it has the possibility of returning to God. But
sometimes, the obduracy in souls is so great that
consciously they choose hell; they make useless all the
prayers that other souls offer to God for them and even
the efforts of God Himself..(1698) |
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