You destroy Hope.
Our Lady said, "most souls go to Hell because they have no one to pray for them" which clearly means if you pray for others God will allow His merciful grace, and He knows the time, the perfect time to infuse His grace into the soul of all of us.
Great post, Myrna.
That is why St. Paul said that women should keep silent. There are many great women in Church history, but none of them was feelings oriented like that. What Myrna wrote is nonsense. It has no basis in Catholicism. This is what happens after 50+ years of effeminacy in the Church, there are no men left to keep feelings oriented women from going the syrup or the despair extremems. Our Faith is not about extremes either syrup or despair. What the Church teaches is not against hope, it is not despair, AND it is also not syrup.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1552xavier4.htmlFrom: Henry James Coleridge, ed., The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier, 2d Ed., 2 Vols., (London: Burns & Oates, 1890), Vol. II, pp. 331-350; reprinted in William H. McNeil and Mitsuko Iriye, eds., Modern Asia and Africa, Readings in World History Vol. 9, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 20-30.
St. Francis Xavier:
Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe, 1552
One of the things that most of all pains and torments these Japanese is, that we teach them that the prison of hell is irrevocably shut, so that there is no egress therefrom. For they grieve over the fate of their departed children, of their parents and relatives, and they often show their grief by their tears. So they ask us if there is any hope, any way to free them by prayer from that eternal misery, and I am obliged to answer that there is absolutely none. Their grief at this affects and torments them wonderfully; they almost pine away with sorrow. But there is this good thing about their trouble---it makes one hope that they will all be the more laborious for their own salvation, lest they like their forefathers, should be condemned to everlasting punishment. They often ask if God cannot take their fathers out of hell, and why their punishment must never have an end. We gave them a satisfactory answer, but they did not cease to grieve over the misfortune of their relatives; and I can hardly restrain my tears sometimes at seeing men so dear to my heart suffer such intense pain about a thing which is already done with and can never be undone.