May We Have Ears To Hear
(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) … no man is in hell who did not have, time after time, the chance of taking heaven in his grasp. St. Thomas Aquinas
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Go Frequently In Spirit To the Gates of Hell
(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) For whosoever goes frequently in spirit during life to the gates of hell, will not at death easily descend into hell; because meditation of this nature, that is, frequent and devout meditation, prevents us from sinning and withdraws us from hell. For since we see that men of the world refrain from committing evil deeds, because of temporal punishment, therefore, by so much the more should we fear and refrain from mortal sin, because of the punishment of hell, which is more terrible in regard to its duration, severity and variety. St. Thomas Aquinas
Ponder These Truths Now Before The Hour of Death
(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) O Christian soul, what will be your sentiments at the hour of death with regard to this world and all its perishable goods, vain honors, false riches and cheating pleasures. Alas! The world must then end in your regard. It will turn upside down before your eyes, and you will begin to see the nothingness of all those things on which you had here set your heart. How will you then despise all worldly honors and preferences when you see yourself at the brink of the grave, where the worm will make no distinction between the king and the beggar. How little account, will you then make of the esteem of men, who then will think no more of you.
Our Often Ignored Companions
Photo©Michael Seagriff God sets many angels in our paths but often we know them not; in fact, we may go through life never knowing that they were agents or messengers of God to lead us in to virtue or to deter us from vice. But they symbolize that constant and benign intervention of God in human history, which stops us on the path to destruction or leads us to success or happiness. Venerable Fulton J. Sheen