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Offline bookofbirds

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Sobering resources on Hell
« on: September 11, 2025, 04:51:05 PM »
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  • Please post material that made you extra aware of the Perfect justice of God. Lord Jesus have mercy on us poor sinners! :pray:

    This Dimond brothers production of Preparation For Death by St. Alphonsus Liguori helped me shape up a bit the first time I saw it.






    "Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you." St. Matthew 11:28 

    Offline Miseremini

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    Re: Sobering resources on Hell
    « Reply #1 on: September 11, 2025, 08:44:33 PM »
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  • Any account from Saints or Mystics describing Purgatory.  It scared the hell out of me.
    "Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered: and them that hate Him flee from before His Holy Face"  Psalm 67:2[/b]



    Offline Stubborn

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    Re: Sobering resources on Hell
    « Reply #2 on: September 12, 2025, 05:36:47 AM »
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  • Tan Books So High The Price

    "....Consider my son, that if you go to hell, you will never leave it. There, every pain is suffered and suffered forever.
    Even when a hundred years have gone by since you went to hell, or a thousand, hell will be just beginning. After a hundred thousand, a hundred million years, after millions of centuries, hell will still be just beginning.

    If an angel were to bring news to the damned that God had decided to free them from hell when as many million centuries had passed as there are drops of water in the ocean, leaves on the trees and grains of sand on the earth - if the damned were to hear that, they would be immensely consoled. "True", they would say, "many centuries must yet pass, but some day the time of our freedom will come." In reality, however, such vast stretches of time and more than we can possibly imagine, shall pass and find hell still only beginning.

    Every soul damned in hell would be willing to make this agreement with God: "Lord, increase my suffering as much as You will; make me stay here in this place of torment as long as You will, but give me hope that someday You will free me."

    But no, this hope, this end to suffering, shall never be...."

    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Sobering resources on Hell
    « Reply #3 on: September 12, 2025, 09:51:31 PM »
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  • If you listen to audiobooks, Dante’s Divine Comedy is quite good. I listened to all three books explained by a Catholic professor and his knowledge of the poet’s writings and its links to Holy Scripture and theology is excellent. In fact, I intend to listen to all three books again as they are rich with descriptions of Hell, Purgatory & Heaven that are helpful for me to get refocused on what is really important right.

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    Re: Sobering resources on Hell
    « Reply #4 on: September 12, 2025, 10:05:38 PM »
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  • A quote I always like to return to, when thinking of people who say they can't quit committing this sin or that one, is a question that comedian and activist Dick Gregory would ask of those who say they can't quit smoking.  In this instance, he was addressing white people, and asked, if you knew that the next cigarette you smoke would turn you into a black person, could you quit then?  (This was in a time when a white person would have had an issue with that.  Can't speak for some folks nowadays.)

    Something to consider.