"Should I read this ?"The Story of Annette, a Soul in Hell

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Sorry, I’m little timid and ignorant, This is Story about a soul in hell. Should I read it? I am just concerned if it confuses me or misleads me, just want to make sure. I’m weak in theology and not in committed grace.

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No, you are weak as you say. Drop it. Read the Catechism on Hell instead which is sound doctrine and so you can learn the truth.
 
That story was approved for circulation so it is fine to read it. It is based on sound theology.

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You can read it as a piece of “pious fiction” or “pious legend”.

Given that we have no idea who “Annette” or “Claire” was and that there is no discussion of a Church investigation into the matter, at best this is unapproved private revelation and should not be discussed here.

It is something that “could happen” but we cannot confirm whether or not it “did happen”.

The story itself isn’t anything that lurid. It’s basically about someone’s sins, not about what Hell is like. I suspect if it were made into a spooky video, it was made much more dramatic. There is nothing bad in the story.
 
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There are so many good readings. Stick with good basic stuff that brings order and peace to your life.
 
umamibella said:
Is it a piece of fiction?
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The account is non-fiction.

It has the imprimatur so even if the story was made-up, the imprimatur means it is free of doctrinal errors. It describes the common lifestyle of a young woman growing up in central Europe during a time when the standard of life was improving and the continent was quickly become seculiarized.
 
TK421 said:
The account is non-fiction.
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You know this how?

As you note, it describes a typical lifestyle of young women. For all you know it could be a fictionalized version of various true stories, or it could have been wholly made up. It also involves an apparently un-investigated private revelation.

I’m not saying that such pious legends or stories have no value, but to claim it’s non-fiction you would need to verify the identities of all involved and that these events really happened. Not seeing that here.
 
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Yjjr said:
Sorry, I’m little timid and ignorant, This is Story about a soul in hell. Should I read it? I am just concerned if it confuses me or misleads me, just want to make sure. I’m weak in theology and not in committed grace.
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There are better things to read that are much more edifying.
 
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Yjjr said:
can you tell me any suggestions, that you prefer. thank you.
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I like Francis De Sales, Intro to a Devout Life, and also there are stories in the Gospels that are nice to read as well as the Book of Proverbs and Wisdom in the Old Testament.
 
Is this the alleged “letter” from a young female who died from a car wreck in the 1930s?

If so, I wouldn’t waste time on it. It’s just speculation.

There are plenty of accounts from Saints (Don Bosco, Faustina, Bellarmine, others) concerning Hell, and even those are speculation, although rooted in a better source.

Really, we don’t need to study Hell beyond our LORD’s words thereon.

ICXC NIKA
 
I would prefer St Catherine of Genoa’s Treatise on Purgatory.
 
The idea of being immobilized forever is scary. Of course, in Hell, one is dead, and motion is life!

Our LORD alluded to this when He said that those thrown into the “outer darkness” would have “hands and feet” bound. Can’t move much with your limbs tied.

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GEddie said:
He said that those thrown into the “outer darkness” would have “hands and feet” bound. Can’t move much with your limbs tied.
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Don’t forget that Hell is state, soul is in Hell not body (not until Judgment Day).
So when it is mentioned “tied limbs” I believe it means that state cannot be changed. My hands are tied - I cannot do anything about it.
All we can know about Hell is from Church’s teaching and what some private revelations say, it is horrible and unimaginable suffering.
 
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Romano Guardini’s book on the virtues. A classic that is easy to find.
 
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TK421:
The account is non-fiction.
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@Bear

The author of the story identifies it as non-fiction, i.e. it isn’t presented as a make-believe account like the Screwtape Letters. There should be a charitable assumption, even if not proven, that a religious sister in good standing with the Church isn’t lying, or at least that she is being truthful to the best of her ability. I’m sure she loved God very much.

I read the account several years ago and it has a very good quality of writing and is very theologically sound. It touches several very important points, like the idea that hell is something a person can will for oneself but never something that God desires, and that grace is offered for a person even up to the day of their death.

As awful as that Youtube video is - it inserts corny horror noises and has a robot narrator - the original story is very good quality and it was widely circulated after it was published. I think it’s an edifying story because it inspires us to pray for our deeper conversion and our neighbor’s conversion, and basically, it echoes the message of Fatima and the Gospel and helps us to better love ourselves and our neighbor.
 
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