I think it is important that we are never too self assured that we we are definitely going to heaven because this is dangerous. It says in the Bible to “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” We can all get to heaven, but it requires us to die in a state of grace, having repented of all mortal sin. Many Catholics today never go to Confession and do not even believe in the need for Confession to a priest. Also, many people have lost the sense of sin and think that all “good people” will go to heaven, and many people do not even believe that hell exists, so it is a safe bet that people who don’t believe that hell exists will not be too worried about going there, and will probably not do the things they need to do to avoid going there. That said, we should have faith and confidence in God’s love and mercy if we are sorry for our sins and confess them. I have a booklet which you might be interested in reading called The Father Speaks to His Children which contains the only private revelation made personally by God the Father and recognized as authentic by the Church after ten years of investigation. In this booklet, God talks about his incredible love for us.
I quote from the book: “Men believe Me to be a terrifying God Who is going to cast all mankind into hell. What a great surprise it will be when, at the end of time, they see so many souls they believed lost, enjoying eternal bliss among the elect!”
The book also contains this story (remember this is God the Father speaking): "I will give you an example of a soul who is facing sudden death; this soul has always been for me like the Prodigal Son. I lavished benefits on this soul, but he wasted all these benefits, all these gifts that his most loving Father provided for him. More than this, he offended me gravely. I waited for him, I followed him everywhere, I gave him more favours: health and wealth, that I caused to result from his work, to the point of superfluity. At times My providence granted him further gifts. He therefore had plenty of everything but he saw it all in the sad light of his vices, and his whole life was a fabric of errors because of habitual mortal sin. But My love never tired. I followed him all the same. I loved him and, most of all, in spite of his rebuffs, I was happy to live patiently close to him, in the hope that maybe one day he would respond to My love and return to Me, His Father and Savior. At last his final day is approaching: I have sent him an illness in order to make him come to his senses and return to Me, his Father. Time passes and My poor son - he is 74 - is at his last hour. I am still there, as always: I talk to him with even more kindness than usual. I persevere, I call My chosen ones and ask them to pray for him, so that he may ask for the forgiveness I am offering him…And now, before breathing his last, he opens his eyes, admits his errors and understands how far he has strayed from the true path that leads to Me. He recovers his senses and in a weak voice, which none of those around him can hear, he says: “My God, I can now see how great Your love for me has been and I have offended You continually with such a bad life. I never thought about You, my Father and Saviour. Now You see everything and I beg forgiveness for all this evil which You see in me and which I now discern in my confusion. I love you, my Father and my Saviour! He died at that very moment and now here he is, before Me. I judge him with a paternal love: He called me Father and he is saved. He will spend a period of time in the place of expiation, and after this he will be happy for all eternity.”
I ordered a bunch of these booklets from Mary’s Call (their website is
www.maryscall.com ) and you can order them for a donation. The person I spoke to who works there said they are not allowed to sell them but are supposed to give them away for donations (I think he said this was by order of the Vatican, because this is a revelation that is approved by the Church and this way the message can be spread to as many people as possible.)
