Why don't priests preach about Hell these days?

[steve-b]

steve-b:

He validated that only a few are save

“People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.”

How does that validate that only a few are saved? What could he have said to convince you many would be saved?

let’s put this into proportion.

Example:
Today’s world population is ~7.5 billion people, give or take.

What if .5 billion, i.e. 500 million people are saved,

Is 500 million people a lot of people? Yep
However when compared to 7 billion who are screwed, it’s but a few. Especially if you or I are NOT in the 500 million because we die in mortal sin.

Maybe in actuality, “few” is even smaller than .5 billion saved. What if it is 35 million? That’s .5% of the total… That’s “a few” as well, yet 35 million is still a lot of people.

Are you seeing the point?

 

[steve-b]

steve-b:

What is it you’re trying to justify?

Nothing. I’m stating a fact.
You’re the one making an argument and I noted an apparent flaw in the logic is all.
I had a few courses in stats. One of them was at Georgetown.

And Georgetown also gave how numbers are nuanced which was also part of the link I gave.,

It didn’t change the number they posted for mass attendance.

 

[mythbuster1]

Indeed, let us take heart that the number of the blessed are a vast multitude that no one can count, but tremble that they are few compared to the whole human race. Narrow is the path that leads to life, but it is not so narrow that one can fall off without having deviated from its course.

 

[anon98328916]

I ask the same question, I would love them to preach about purgatory too. Both (name removed by moderator)artcular should be frequently preached about at Mass during the homilies.

 

[anon10271182]

I’ll have to listen for that.
I’m so accustomed to Mozart’s glorious version, I sometimes forget that there are other versions of Requiem music.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

If you’re going to make arguments based on stats, don’t expect your audience to go plowing through links to understand nuances.
It’s your argument.
Be clear.

 

[edwest211]

What? Where are those declarative sentences/conclusions coming from? I spend a good deal of time studying the marketing of ideas. One hour a week in Church is not enough. Shortly after walking out of Church, people are bombarded with bad images and bad ideas being spewed out by the media.

I would also like to point out that ‘large groups’ who meet once a week are still affected by ‘radical individualism’ and tribalism. In more heavily populated areas, no one knows anybody - not really. In the past, it was a different story. We had communities. There were more 24/7 Christians.

 

[steve-b]

If you’re going to make arguments based on stats, don’t expect your audience to go plowing through links to understand nuances.
It’s your argument.
Be clear.

And we know there are people who ignore evidence.

And I also Don’t expect everyone to be an enabler. But that said, we know there are a huge number of enablers…true?. They are as bad as the ones they enable.

 

[steve-b]

Indeed, let us take heart that the number of the blessed are a vast multitude that no one can count, but tremble that they are few compared to the whole human race. Narrow is the path that leads to life, but it is not so narrow that one can fall off without having deviated from its course.

Yet falling off the course and deviating from the course, is a distinction without a difference…true?

 

[Dovekin]

What if .5 billion, i.e. 500 million people are saved

And what if 5 billion are saved? Or 7.5 billion?

Are those stil “a few”?

Jesus does not say only a few are saved in this passage from Luke. People ask if a few are saved, and he tells them they should try to enter by the narrow gate. And then he says People will come from the north, south east west to feast at the table.

The idea that only a few will be saved is repudiated in that passage. You can read “a few” into his words, but only by being deaf to the wideness of north and south and east and west. With God, all things are possible!

 

[rondirect]

Well thank you all for your replies. Maybe its just a problem here in the UK I’ve been a Catholic over twenty years now and have never heard a sermon on Hell or judgement. I’m always surprised that priests aren’t more worried about it since they are held so accountable.

Your topic question paints a picture with a very wide brush. Your assuming that no priests preach about Hell. Have you heard every priest in every church in the UK preach? Betcha some do when appropriate.

The best answer is this one:

I’ve yet to meet a priest who does not preach about hell when it is appropriate (preaching on Last Things, homilies that relate to Gospel passages about the Last Things).

And that’s the it should be. The priest should be preaching on the Word of the day and not preach about purgatory or hell on, to exaggerate, Christmas Day.

 

[OsculeturMeOsculo]

I wonder how many go to confession.

 

[OsculeturMeOsculo]

Mozart’s
Regina Coeli is really good too, but I am talking about the six minute one in C- Major. The other 16 minute one is nice too.

 

[TheLittleLady]

I don’t.

I worry about how long it has been since I have been to confession.

 

[Augustinian]

Pre Vatican II, the people in Catholic dominated Italy, Spain, Bavaria etc. supported Fascist/ Nazi governments.

Spain never had a fascist or nazi government.

Their caudillo ran a tight ship, but he was no Hitler. In fact, Mr. Hitler, after a meeting with Franco, said the would rather have his teeth pulled out one by one than have to deal with this impossible man.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

And I also Don’t expect everyone to be an enabler. But that said, we know there are a huge number of enablers…true?. They are as bad as the ones they enable.

I don’t know, I’m not keeping tabs on who’s enabling who to do what.
My immediate family are all dead, my extended family are Protestant and/or too far away for me to be an “enabler”, and I myself try to go to Mass every day, so whatever point you are making about enablement isn’t my concern.

 

[steve-b]

steve-b:

What if .5 billion, i.e. 500 million people are saved

And what if 5 billion are saved? Or 7.5 billion?

Are those stil “a few”?

Jesus does not say only a few are saved in this passage from Luke. People ask if a few are saved, and he tells them they should try to enter by the narrow gate. And then he says People will come from the north, south east west to feast at the table.

The idea that only a few will be saved is repudiated in that passage. You can read “a few” into his words, but only by being deaf to the wideness of north and south and east and west. With God, all things are possible!

When God says few make it heaven, and you make lite of “few”, that’s nuts.

 

[steve-b]

I wonder how many go to confession.

Good question

 

[steve-b]

steve-b:

And I also Don’t expect everyone to be an enabler. But that said, we know there are a huge number of enablers…true?. They are as bad as the ones they enable.

I don’t know, I’m not keeping tabs on who’s enabling who to do what.

Enabling can show up in all kinds of ways.

 

[anon10271182]

I’d go Evey day if I could. I’d have to live near my FSSP parish, though, which is 55 miles away. Sometimes, I make it over to a Wed. confession. That one’s only about 35 miles away. The price I pay for living in the hills, I guess.