One Way Out...of Hell

In my previous post I gave some rather grim numbers of souls that may be on the road to eternal damnation.  Scary stuff, even for me.  But there is a way to avoid it.  There is a way out.

Yes, Jesus is the one, no one can go to the Father, nor even know the Father except through Jesus.  We have to accept Jesus, confess who He is, repent, believe and be baptised.  But then we have to go out into a dangerous world full of temptations to the worsts sins that the world has ever seen.  The devil has made it so easy to sin in such a way that if you died the second after committing the sin, your soul could be eternally lost.

But Jesus knowing that we would have many temptations in this world, gave us a Lioness to shelter her children under her Mantle, His Mother.  This does in no way diminish Jesus's divinity or authority, but Jesus is allowing this grace to pass through His Mother as He Himself passed through her womb to Earth for our salvation.

Mary cannot save us from hell, only her son Jesus can.   But Jesus can give authority to the good servant, remember?  "His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy." Did giving great responsibilities to the servant in any way diminish the Master? No.  But which one of the servants would you want to hang out with to get to know the Master? The unfaithful or the faithful one?

Can you go directly to the Master yourself? Sure, but be afraid that He may say to you, "I do not know you."  God's ways are above our ways, and trust me, when we go to our judgement we are not going to 'fist bump' Jesus as I heard in a recent song on the radio.  God is so Holy that if Moses had looked on His face when God had passed by, he would have died.

God wishes us to use the gifts He has given His Mother because doing so glorifies the Father and the Holy Spirit whom overshadowed her to bring forth the Son. 

God longed for our salvation and when the moment came He sent the Archangel Gabriel to a young girl saying  "Hail full of grace, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women."  This is the Angelic Salutation, not because they are the Angel's words, but they are God's words through a messenger.    What did the Angelic Salutation do?  It brought life to the Earth.    So just as the Holy Spirit overcame her and brought life into her womb, the Angelic Salutation always brings life to the Earth.   God is pleased whenever we pray these words in the Hail Mary, Rosary, or the Crown of Twelve Stars because we are re-presenting back to Him the moment of the Incarnation of His Son and our salvation.

This was God becoming one of us, for us.  Jesus is life.  Mary brought forth this life for us.  But Mary wasn't just meant to be a Mother one time, she was meant to have children in abundance.  Jesus would be the only physical child she would bear because she bore God in her womb, it was now Holy as long as God is Holy, which is for all eternity.

She would not have flesh children that must someday die, for she was now the Mother of all the living in Jesus.  She could not taste death from this moment on or God would be made a liar, because death was created by sin, and she had to be sinless and holy for God to come into her womb.  God cannot abode with sin, they are incompatible.  So with the Passion of her Son, Jesus would allow a grace of life to again be given through her.  The grace would be the Rosary which always brings life to the Earth.  

(The Hail Mary) Just as almighty God chose the angelical salutation [Hail Mary] to bring 

about the Incarnation of His Word and the Redemption of mankind [Lk 1:28, 42], in the 

same way those who want to bring about moral reforms and who want people reborn in 

Jesus Christ must honor me and greet me with the same salutation. I am the channel by 

which God came to men, and so, next to my Son Jesus Christ, it is through me that men 

must obtain grace and virtue. (Mary to Blessed Alan de la Roche, in Secret of the Rosary, 

84); Cf True Devotion to Mary, 156-59) 

Still even with the grace of the blood of her Son and the Holy Rosary, there was much sin on the Earth and many were on their way to eternal damnation.  She is their Mother as much as she is Jesus's Mother.  She loves the children that Jesus gave her at the Cross as much as she loves the Son whom she watched suffer on it.

Do you know the pain in a Mother's heart when a child is suffering and the child won't turn to the Mother who only wants the best for her child?

Our Blessed Mother even tells us the possible condition of the soul that hates the angelic salutation:  

"Know, my son, and make all others know, that it is a probable and proximate sign of 

eternal damnation to have an aversion, a lukewarmness, or a negligence in saying the 

angelical salutation, which has repaired the whole world."(Mary to Blessed Alan de la 

Roche, in True Devotion to Mary, 157)  

How could Jesus wish that His Mother be in such pain knowing how much she loves us?  She pours herself out before the throne of God, pleading that her children not be lost.  So out of His love for her, He allows the grace necessary for final salvation to pass through His Mother for those that will complete the First Five Saturdays Devotion. 

"I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation 

all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, go to confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.”

Is this a get out of Hell-jail free card?  No.  God doesn't work that way, but God brings life, for when you do the First Five Saturdays, consoling her Immaculate Heart, you have a special place in Our Mother's Heart.  Mary was assumed into heaven without tasting death.  So when you are in her heart, you are in the heart that still beats and will never die.  In her love for us the Blessed Virgin will then go to Her Son and say to Him, "Son, look at my child who tried to console the pain in my heart that my other children give me."

The First Five Saturdays Devotion give us the grace of final perseverance.    So when you die the devil will not be able to get to you because of the Mother sheltering you from the accuser.  Yes, you must face God in your Judgement, but do not be afraid, Mother will be there, holding your hand.

Please...pray the First Five Saturday's Devotion.

Click here for information on the First Five Saturday devotion. 

Connecting to Heaven

As a Mathematician I have a great hunger for knowledge.  I seek knowledge in Mathematics like a bulldog would, I dig in, latch on, and don't let go until I have what I want.  Because this is the method I have used to acquire knowledge, it was no surprise that I would employ these same techniques when it came to seeking after God.    

It is written, "there is no one who seeks God", well I did.  I went after God, and sought Him diligently and by God's grace I will tell what I found.  

1.  God exists, and is very real and is an eternally Holy, and is eternally just.   Although there will be no direct scientific proof of Him, because He is the author of creation and is not bound to be subject to the criteria of proof required to prove 'existence' .  God does give evidence of Him being the author of all life and creation, but men push it away as a natural occurrence, a fluke or a coincidence.  There is no such thing.  Natural occurrence, fluke or coincidence are only aspects of the mystery of "God Allowing."  God is  "I Am"....He IS existence.    

Human beings experience 'reality' in relation to time and sensation, God is not bound to these constraints.  As we were created by an Eternal God, the eternity that is our destiny was placed in our hearts and despite all our limitations in a fleshly state, we can rise above the groans and demands of the flesh and seek the truth of an Eternal existence that is not waiting for us when we die, but that we are a part of right now. 

If we are in Eternity right now, then our thoughts, actions, and words will have eternal consequences.  Whatever we say, do, or think, God remembers for all eternity, and if our actions are sinful and not repented of, they may require an eternal consequence.  Do not think that because you flesh lives a short life, that you can do what you please and tread on the Honor of God for your own desires.  For some will come to their deathbed in such a horrible state of mortal sin, that only the hands of a Priest giving the Anointing of the Sick can turn God's wrath from their eternal damnation. 

2.  As God loves those He has given life, God has given his creation a means of piercing the veil that separates life from death and perceiving, at least in part, the eternal reality that awaits those that will diligently seek Him.   Yes, we can perceive Heaven, even while we are in the flesh.

3.  The most powerful methods given to man to gain access to the heavenly realm are:
      i) The Holy Mass with frequent Holy Communion
      ii) The Holy Rosary 
      iii) Confession and Penance
      iv) Holy Scriptures 

The two most 'portable' methods of these being the Holy Rosary and Holy Scriptures.  

The Holy Rosary is the best portable method of purification of a soul in order to gain access to the Heavenly Realm, as God allows.  We can have access to praying a Rosary when reading scriptures would not be feasible.  

4.  Gaining access to heaven isn't about what you do, or how many times it is done, but about what your heart does.  There is no list of how many prayers it takes to get into heaven.  St. Michael will not be looking at your excel spreadsheet of prayers to see if they were completed, but he will take you heart and weigh it in it's love for others.   How much did you truly love and pour yourself out for others, even to your last breath.    In one scale, will be your heart, in the other will be the Cross of our Lord.  Your heart will be weighed against the Passion of our Lord, and His sacrifice.   If you understood this, you would be terrified.

5.  The Holy Rosary is for purification and petition, but the Holy Mass is where the Heaven's are first opened for us.  This was not something that happened instantly, I had been a great sinner, and had to go through several years of purification before I attained this perception, as God wills it.  But I can tell you, when the Heaven's Open during the Holy Mass, we have access to the Throne of God for our petitions for others.  (You only get to this level, if you have truly humbled yourself before God, sought nothing for self, and petition God for the good of another, seeking no acclaim or attention.)  

I have seen the Saints in heaven observing the Holy Mass being celebrated on Earth, and how happy they are!  When you perceive God in this way, you are given what a victory the Holy Mass is on the Earth and how it was a gift from God to man.  Not just Catholics, but every soul on the Earth benefits from each and every Holy Mass that is said, and many souls in Purgatory are released to the beatific vision of God. 

6.  As God allows, depending on the state of your heart and soul to God, He may allow you access to the Throne of God for your petitions outside of the Holy Mass.  Yes, God can do that, and I didn't even realize I was seeking this connection outside of Holy Mass until God showed me what I was doing.  

We in the flesh are very limited, so God gives us each and every person that we encounter in our lives, no matter how insignificant that encounter.   Your children and family are a gift from God, but also is the woman that cut you off in traffic.  God gave her to YOU and He showed you that she is in a potentially dangerous state, and made sure you didn't forget her.  (Wouldn't you come home and complain about being cut off!  You remembered her!!)  There are NO coincidences, and no accidents.  

After encountering an older gentleman that God gave to me for prayer,  I looked up to heaven and petitioned God for this soul as if I was with him before his Judgement.  Instead of just praying for the soul, I go the extra mile and seek to be present at the souls Judgement and petition God for them.   I seek the Throne of God, the Judgement seat of Christ, and before the Cross, I kneel with this soul and petition God to be merciful for his or her sins.  

If the man is still alive, how can I do this? Because we are bound by time, God is not.  God is ever present in a state of eternal "now", with all things before Him constantly with an eternal and perfect knowledge whether the knowledge is from the past or the future.    This perfect knowledge in eternity in no way hinders man's free will to direct his future even though that future is already known by an eternal, loving and perfectly just God.   Even though this man is still living, God is in some sense of eternity presiding at this man's judgement, and He was given to me to be one that pleads for him before the Throne of God.  I have a level of faith that knows that God, if He wills, can allow me to plead at this man's Judgement even though this man is yet still in the flesh.  

If we are going to seek after God we must realize that because of our sinful nature, He is not like us, but as He wills, we can become more like Him.  We must seek to understand the truth of God's reality and seek to perceive this reality to attain the salvation of others.  

One of the best ways to do this is also to constantly remind God, "Nothing is impossible to you, if you will it."  But know God is not mocked, He knows even the deepest secrets of your hearts, so if your intention is not pure, you will attain nothing without a heart directed for others that allows you to be properly dressed for the wedding feast.

God desires ALL  to seek Him.  The Saints have all had this access to the Throne of God, and the one's that did most obviously, where very devoted to the most Holy Rosary.

GO AFTER HIM...and Godspeed. 

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St. Gemma praying, looking to Heaven.

St. Gemma's prayer as a child was “Holy Virgin, make me a Saint.” During this time she often said the whole fifteen decades of the Rosary on her knees in the evening after her return from school and she also began to use penances and to rise in the night to pray. - 

The Purgatory Trap

St. Michael the Archangel and the Souls in Purgatory

 The trap of Purgatory is too many souls rely on Purgatory as the destination of their soul after death, and slap God in the face by not trusting in His mercy, and do not seek Heaven.  They use Purgatory as their "backup plan" and as a result lead lukewarm lives, saying to themselves that in an exchange for just doing the "minimum" faith requirement, thinking that when they die they will just have to spend a few years in Purgatory and then eventually end up in Heaven.

Whether we spend time in Purgatory is at God's discretion, not ours.  

The greatest misuse of Purgatory is that many Catholics do not fear God because of Purgatory.

Those that hang their hopes on Purgatory are already among the lukewarm and possibly among those heading to the second death. Jesus will spit those out of His mouth that have failed to make every effort to follow Jesus and heaven, NOT Purgatory.  

Catholics that rely on the sacraments to get them into Purgatory are greatly misusing those sacraments, even the last sacrament, the Anointing of the Sick.   Yes, the sacraments are for our purification and strengthening, but we are then to use this strengthening to take the gift we are given in the Holy Eucharist to the world that never receives it.  We become a walking talking Monstrance for the world.  This is for all non- Catholics, former Catholics, Atheists, etc.  

Monstrance with Eucharist

Story of Two Catholics:

The First:  
One Catholic, had not practiced the Catholic faith very often, and had many sins.   By God's grace a Catholic Priest came and gave this person Extreme Unction before death.  God will always honor the hands of the Priest and the sacraments he administers, so by the power of God, through the sacrament, the persons sins where forgiven.  However, because this person died soon after the sacrament was administered, there was not the opportunity for the person to repair the damaging affects of their sin.  The damaging affects of the sin would be carried by those this person sinned against.  God is perfect and just.  He will use the burden carried by those who are affected by this persons sin for that person's purification and to lead them to heaven.  

So is it right that the person who died, leaving behind heavy burdens for others to carry, be allowed to come into heaven?  It is totally at God's mercy and discretion, and by His justice, a soul might still enter heaven, but God will require us to pay every farthing.  By His perfect justice the soul might need to undergo purification at God's discretion, ergo the flames of purification, Purgatory. 

"...two thirds of them will be cut off and perish, and one third will be left. I will bring the one third through the fire; I will refine them as one refines silver, and I will test them as one tests gold."  Zechariah 13:8-9. 

The greatest mistake people make when they read scripture is to think that the Old Testament is in the past and no longer relevant.    If Jesus came to fulfill the Old Testament, and He is eternal, then what is said in the Old Testament still testifies to truth, but a truth of eternity and heaven, so if it testifies of eternity, God is teaching us of our eternal destination.  

The Second:  
The second Catholic went to Church every Easter and Christmas and went to Confession once a year.  There was no charity in this person's heart of anyone but themselves and the minimum requirement they thought they needed to do to get into Purgatory.   Because this person does not use the gifts of the Sacraments to keep him from being worldly, this person skirts mortal sin, and eventually falls into it.  This person is then deceived thinking they can wait till the Easter requirement for Confession.   God sends many warnings to this person through people around him to repent, but if this person dies in their sin they will face eternal suffering.  If they were able to receive the last Sacrament before death, God WILL honor the hands of the Priest and forgive this person's sin, but this person will be in the lowest part of Purgatory, suffering the same fires as those in Hell possibly till the end of time.  

Read the scripture above..."...two thirds of them will be cut off and perish, and one third will be left."  This should put fear in all of our hearts... 2/3 will go to eternal punishment!  

“Enter through the narrow gate;for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few."  
Matthew, 7: 13-14. 

Anointing of the Sick

I tell you the truth:  There are many souls in Purgatory, that without the grace of God given through the Anointing of the Sick before their death would be in eternal damnation now.  

We must not think our sin is small, but see that even the smallest sin can totally separate us from God as God's justice decides.  If you think your sin is small, then you are constantly slapping God in the face as He is suffering on the Cross.  If we truly love God we should fear ALL sin as hurting the one we love.  If we slap someone and then say, "Oh, forgive me." the person may well forgive us, but if we slap them 10,000 times and say, "Oh forgive me.", with no intention in our hearts to really stop slapping them, then we do not fully love the one to whom we are seeking forgiveness.  

Is Purgatory real?  Yes.  When we deny Purgatory we call Jesus a liar.   " But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven in this world or the next."  Matthew 12:32.  There IS a place of purification as God deems to use it for souls that have not been perfected for heaven.  

However, do not hope for Purgatory, but rather fear Hell and strive diligently by pouring your life out for others so that you may enter Heaven. 

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This blog post was inspired by a Protestant Minister and is dedicated to him:  Larry Conley. 

Ghosts, Psychics and Demons

A demons whole job is to trick you.  There whole existence is to deceive you into breaking the law of God and being with them in all eternity in Hell and Damnation.  We, as children of God need to be "wise as serpents and gentle as doves."  As such we must ALWAYS be on the lookout for the demons deceptions, for the evil one never sleeps. 

When we die, there is the judgement.  We are taken before the throne of God and our life is presented to our Lord, our good and our bad.  And as we have served in life, so shall we serve after death.  For God is always good, and out of His love for us He will give us our hearts desires, so if our heart is evil then hell and the devil shall be our reward.  And if our hearts desire has been God and His goodness in our life, Our God, the Creator of the Universe shall be our reward.  For eye has not seen nor the mind perceived what God has in store for those that truly love Him.

There are a lot of shows now on ghosts, ghost hunters and "psychic" mediums who speak to those who have passed on.  DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM!  "No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, or who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead. For who does these things is abhorrent to the Lord..."  Deuteronomy 18:10-12. 

If we want to see how the demon will try to deceive us, all we have to do is look up "abhorrent to the Lord, abomination to the Lord, in the Bible and we will see what the demon is trying to entice us to do.  There are those who will call evil good when they know it will separate us from God, which is their main job.  We forget that the evil one knows the law of God better than any of us and he will do anything, ANYTHING to separate us from God.

So when you hear "evp"s that supposedly have spirits speaking or hear a "psychic" medium speak words from the dead we must first ask two questions.  1. Who are you really speaking to?  Remember the demons whole job is to DECEIVE YOU into doing what is not right in the sight of God.  To that end, demons will LIE to you. So who is speaking through a psychic or in the evp? Most of the time they are demons or demonized humans (humans condemned to hell that seek to wish nothing more than that you be in hell with them.) 

How they know.

So what if what the psychic says is correct? What if they have information that no one else could have?  Let me explain to you how this works.  We are surrounded by minions of the evil one seeking our destruction.  They have information about our lives and activities in the past.  Demons are intelligent beings and can communicate with one another.  So they have all of the past information about loved ones and they can speak through "mediums" and "psychics". So who you are speaking to is a demon, never doubt that.  Why would a demon give you information that you find comforting? They don't care how you feel, they just care that you have offended God and they will say and do anything to get you to sin against Him.  So if they can tell you how poor Uncle Joe who has passed on liked to play baseball and was left handed - this is information available to the demon that "shadowed" (no pun intended) Uncle Joe in his life. Remember, demons have no obligation to speak the truth but don't think they wont use the truth if it suits their ends - your destruction.   There is no verifiable way to identify who or what a spirit is. 

The Safest Course

The safest course is to not offend God and to not follow after psychics and ghost hunters and don't watch their programs either.  God in His goodness gives us so many tools to push evil from our lives, the Holy Mass, Confession, The Rosary, the list goes on.  Seek the company of the Saints and Our Lady instead of spirits because you don't know who are what they may be.