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I was contemplating the four last things, and the thought recurs in my mind that we are all going to hell as we are. I just don’t think there is a person living today who is on the path to salvation. I just emailed my spiritual director about this, and need to talk to people about this thought. Has anyone ever thought that we are all damned, as we are going? I don’t even have a clue how bad Hell is. I just think we are far too complacent, and content with ourselves, and I don’t know anyone, including myself, who can say that they are on a path to salvation. I don’t know what to do about this thought.

Joshua
 
You are right. Many people are on the path of perdition. But we never know. If a person, at the moment of their death, say, I’m sorry Lord, forgive me, and have mercy on me Jesus. He will be saved. No matter how big his sins are.

Better if he can receive the last sacraments.

But we must not postpone the business of our salvation until the last moment. Because our hearts can get harder and harder. And there is a possibility that if we postpone our conversion, it comes to a point where our hearts becomes as hard as stone it cannot come back. It is a sin against the holy spirit which Jesus tells us in the scriptures. The sin that cannot be forgiven (the sin against the holy spirit). It means rejecting the mercy of God even until the end.

While God’s mercy is infinite and unfathomable. Even if we have the sins of the whole world combined, and all the damned combined, if we say, Jesus have mercy on me a sinner, with repentant soul, Jesus will forgive us. His mercy is infinite.
But we must not misuse his mercy

I would suggest you to read the Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska - Divine Mercy in my Soul, in addition to your current spiritual reading.

saintsworks.net/books/St.%20Faustina%20Kowalska%20-%20Diary.pdf

Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet
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I actually have the same meditation as you have, but I try to pray for the conversion of sinners. Because as catholics, Jesus have entrusted to us immense number of souls, as he revealed to St. Faustina.

The salvation and perfection of other souls depends on our salvation and perfection.

If we pray for the conversion of sinners, we only not save their soul, but save our own soul as well. St. Dominic Savio said that if only we can save just one soul, our own soul will be saved as well.

Our soul is very precious in God’s sight. He loves us infinitely. You must remember that Jesus is love, and he loves you.

Go to confession frequently (weekly, every fortnight, monthly), have a regular confessor, that way you secure your eternal salvation. I go to confession weekly.

St Gemma Galgani went to confession three times a week. Most saints went weekly, some went twice a week, St. Birgitta went to confession daily.

Partly, the souls are not being saved because the shepherds (the priests) are negligent. Oooo they would have to pay for that if they do not convert. And their responsibility before God is immense!

Most of them do not know this…
and that’s terrifying. That is why we have to promote saints books. Give them for free to our loved ones, so that people may know that heaven is real and they can work for their salvation.

May the merciful Jesus bless you

If you don’t know how bad hell is, there is this good meditation on heaven, hell, penance, mortifications, three Children of Fatima and Our Lady of Fatima

audiosancto.org/auweb/20110515-Penance-Is-Not-About-Suffering-But-About-Saving.mp3

Try it
 
joshrp said:
Hi,

I was contemplating the four last things, and the thought recurs in my mind that we are all going to hell as we are. I just don’t think there is a person living today who is on the path to salvation. I just emailed my spiritual director about this, and need to talk to people about this thought. Has anyone ever thought that we are all damned, as we are going? I don’t even have a clue how bad Hell is. I just think we are far too complacent, and content with ourselves, and I don’t know anyone, including myself, who can say that they are on a path to salvation. I don’t know what to do about this thought.

Joshua
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All true! We are all those things and we do deserve Hell. Its God’s mercy, not our merit, or we would all be to hell. However, because of those true things you say we are, we will most of us probably be doing a lot of purgatory (and since we resist our chances for pugatory here on earth). A mystic I trust reports: two-thirds of us in these times will be damned, because of choosing against God, against goodness, against Jesus. Sounds pretty accurate for what we see around us! Our Church gives no predictions on how many will be damned, but the Saints say MANY are in danger.

I agree with mariafransisca2 – if this is on your mind, you need the words of St. Maria Faustina! I am back to them this week myself.
 
Thank you Maria for referring me to a pdf of St. Faustina’s Diary. I read it a few years ago and loved it. I’m going to put the pdf on my Kindle, which I have tons of Church and Papal documents as well as saints, doctors, and father’s of the church’s writings. It saves a lot of paper and ink that I would have to use to read everything I have read.

Also, I know that Mary wants us to pray the Rosary every day, but I’ve been having immense difficulty getting through it. I start and then I just give up, because I can’t meditate on anything I’m saying in the prayer or the mysteries. I feel like I am not praying right at all, and what’s the point if I’m praying it badly? Can you save souls by praying badly? I’m just so frustrated with it. Mary wants me to pray the Rosary every day, and I get so frustrated when I start it that I give up.
 
Regarding the Rosary, you can print out this Method of Saying the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort
montfort.org.uk/Writings/MSR.html

Try to go to confession before you say your rosary. A clean heart makes a good prayer.

🙂

Say three rosaries a day, meditate on all the three mysteries. If you cannot yet pray the rosary, pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet on a regular rosary instead, it only takes 5 minutes.

St. Padre Pio said the rosary 17 times a day. I tried to imitate that but my best is 5 🙂

I usually pray the rosary and the divine mercy chaplet 3 times a day, morning, noon, night.

We can draw abundant graces for our souls and for other souls from praying the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet.

They are my top recommended prayers.

But you can try different devotions to different saints as well. Like Chaplet of St. Anthony, Chaplet of St. Joseph

I’ve made articles on prayer guidance, including the rosary and other devotions. You can check them out

prayerguidance.blogspot.com/

May the merciful Jesus bless you

PS: My laptop is also like a catholic library to me :D, in addition, I have tons of catholic videos, which I downloaded from youtube. I made a list here
increaseyourfaith.blogspot.com/

They have greatly helped my faith. My favorite videos is on St. John Paul II and Blessed mother teresa. Also on St. Therese of Lisieux. As if watching them alive. Mother Angelica videos are also wonderful 👍

Glad to know you fill your kindle with holy writings 🙂
 
Re: rosary, If its a matter of time, maybe back off and try one decade a day. Or, if that’s not right for you, try breaking up the rosary into 3 or five different sittings. Might suit your current attention span better. Try walking while praying it. Try praying along with a CD.

Try asking Mary to help you pray. St. Bernadette did!

If you are determined to pray it, the evil one may be trying to discourage you. “We fight not against flesh and blood but powers and principalities”. So forge on poorly anyway!

I say that because I remember what Scott Hahn said once. May have even been about the rosary. Such an important devotion, and its easy to feel we can’t do this “simple” - and yet not-so-simple thing well.

Hahn said,* “If a thing is worth doing, its worth doing poorly”*. I am sure he did not originate that thought, but it sure is a good one. It inspires me, as I have perfectionist tendencies at times.

So do it poorly! Ask for the grace to begin to do it better, as you trudge along in your poor, poor way.
 
And I think you can save many souls by obediently acting on Mary’s instructions to pray the rosary, even though you feel terrible about how poor you are at it, even though you have to struggle to focus, even though its very very hard, even though you can take no pride at all in your best effort! I think you can save many, many souls that way!

(One day you will realize you have in fact gotten better it it!)
 
I suggest you to read:
A book by george brantl, called catholicism. On the last things section

IX The Last things
download844.mediafire.com/pmx4q8sie3mg/vmcgc7dg55sz65d/The+Last+Things.pdf

Do not right click, click normally and wait for the download link.

The full book can be obtained here
startcatholicism.blogspot.com/

I love the book so much that I photograph it so that many people can read them. I was a lukewarm catholic before, and I get to know the catholic church from that book. I was brought to a state of contemplation reading that book. But you may not be able to experience it because it is in pdf form, rather hard on the eyes.

He made many references to the saints. The ones I really like is Blessed John Henry cardinal newman, and english scholar

I, since then, am very interested of Blessed John Henry cardinal newman’s books.
They are available online
newmanlibrary.org/pages/booklist.php
 
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