Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

If you care about the salvation of souls (your own and those you love) get a copy of  Accompanying A Dying Soul . It is a brief but powerful read and spiritual aid.  

 

"The wood of the Cross became the vehicle for our redemption, just as the tree from which it was fashioned had occasioned the fall of our first parents. Suffering and death, which had been a consequence of sin, were to become the very means by which sin was vanquished. The Innocent Lamb was slain on the altar of the Cross, and yet from the immolation of the victim new life burst forth:  the power of evil was destroyed by the power of self-sacrificing love. The Cross, then, is something far greater and more mysterious than it first appears.  It is indeed an instrument of torture, suffering and defeat, but at the same time it expresses the complete transformation, the definitive reversal of these evils, that is what makes it the most eloquent symbol of hope that the world has ever seen.  It speaks to all who suffer – the oppressed, the sick, the poor, the outcast, the victims of violence – and offers them hope that God can transform their suffering int...

[How many souls are lost because we neither share this Truth nor meditate on it] (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ…Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven – through a purification or immediately – or immediate and everlasting damnation.  Catechism of the Catholic Church 1022    

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The smallest drop of His Most Precious Blood would have redeemed the human race. Any drop of the Blood of Christ, without his death, would have paid the price of our salvation. Hence, the price of mankind’s redemption was not only infinite in value, but also of an infinite nature, since Christ redeemed us from death through His death. St. Thomas Aquinas  

All men are born to live. He (Jesus) was born to do the Father’s business which was to die and thereby save.  Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Oh my soul, you must one day part with this body, but when shall that day be?  Shall it be in the winter, or in the summer?  In the city, or in the country?  By day, or by night? Shall it be suddenly, or on notice given you?  Shall you have leisure to make your Confession?  Shall you have the assistance of your spiritual father?  Alas, of all this, you know nothing at all!  Only certain it is that you must die.  In fact, as it almost always happens, much sooner than you imagine.  St. Frances de Sales 

(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