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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

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4fe7aa  No.742768

How narrow is the path of Christ?

When we tread the way of the Cross upto our hill of calvary, there is the promised miss step and our fateful fumble. When this happens to us how far off the mark are we? Is it an abyss immediate and infinite, far off the marks of God? Down in this abyss, depravity encroaches into our soul a darkness counter to the light we once were on. Is everything not of God sin? Is it not there in the dark we see the way back, pulled into salvation by no merit of our own but by the Grace that lifts us into?

Jesus stumbled, he was tempted, and we in reflection of him fall and sin.

Adam the first of man, had sin come into his life close to the beginning, showing the immature soul–humanities youth (childhood) is even affected by this nasty truth, the battle of sin wages inside since the very beginning. But with Christ and his way, we walk above the waters of darkness, in light as light it self.

These are just my thoughts. Thank you for reading.

96c6c5  No.742777

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I think this sermon really says it,

"out of the 60 thousand who died, only me and monsenior went up to heaven and 3 went to purgatory"


4fe7aa  No.742819

>>742777

Ill look at it when I get home thank you


d8ad19  No.742827

>>742768

>How narrow is the path of Christ?

To put it into perspective, when 600000 Jews left Egypt with Moses after spending 40 years in the desert only 2 people made it into the promise land. In fact even Moses didn't make it in.

Simply put your trust in Christ and carry on working the land.


4fe7aa  No.742832

>>742827

>>742827

Well thats exactly my point, why isn't this the most severe part of our Docterine? For me, this is underlined and put into bold.


6ac6e2  No.742837

>>742832

Ask your priest, although that should be obvious if you meditate on the scriptures or even on the liturgical tradition.

On one hand, "many are called but few are chosen". On another hand, God's will is that all be saved. On another hand, literally all people but Enoch and Elijah went to Hell before Christ's death, and even after Christ's resurrection we do not know for sure who exactly was saved out of Hell, with saints having disagreements (just the patriarchs of Israel? or all the righteous who expected Christ? or all the righteous who lived in a good way even if they weren't perfect? or even all people?) and our iconography shows Jesus saving Adam and Eve, the original and greatest sinners, out of Hell. The saints pray constantly for all. If you're Catholic, you pray for the souls of Purgatory, but there's no sure way of telling who's there. If you're Orthodox, you pray for the souls of Hell, but again there's no sure way of telling who's there.

"Most people are eternally condemned" is not doctrine because we honestly know very little about this concretely. We must only meditate on two things: eternal torment is absolutely a real danger that all are exposed to; and God is both the most merciful and the most just King and loves each one of us with more depth than anyone can picture. Pray for the intercession of others, and work on your own humility and repentance, rather than seeking to penetrate the mysteries of God or, worse, to write your conclusions into doctrine.

Do not worry excessively, or else you'll reduce God to a powerless distant being. Do not feel excessively safe, or else you will become lazy and obtain damnation. Pray for the world with tears everyday while you acknowledge yourself as the worst of sinners.


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fdaa37  No.743031

>>742777

That makes me wonder the point of it all. I mean, I have a job, I support family with it, I buy video games, I built my own computer, and if someone asks for help I help. But I get real anxious in unfamiliar settings, so I don't volunteer much. What I'm hearing from this is 'you're not going to Heaven unless you give up everything for Him.' But if I need to work to pay for medicine so I can function, a home to live in and to put food on the table, that's not helping Him. I'm almost 30 years old, and it might be too late to repent for all the shit I've done. Really, it's like every time I want to try and be more like Christ, I hear all these things and feel like even if I started from scratch it wouldn't be enough.


f8f362  No.743037

>>742777

Is that a woman giving a sermon? What the flipping hell. Suffer not a woman to teach.




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