God Sends No One to Hell

We continue to reflect on the teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus says: If your right eye should cause you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; for it will do you less harm to lose one part of you than to have your whole body thrown into hell. And if your right hand should cause you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; for it will do you less harm to lose one part of you than to have your whole body go to hell.

Here, Jesus affirms two things: the reality of hell and the possibility of going there by one’s own free choice. And if there are things that cause us to sin, we need to cut them out our life.

St. Faustina writes in her Diary (741)

“Today, I was led by an Angel to the chasms of hell. It is a place of great torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is!”

Then she describes the suffering of Hell that last forever. Afterward she writes: “I am writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it is like. I, Sister Faustina, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence. I cannot speak about it now; but I have received a command from God to leave it in writing….But I noticed one thing: that most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell.”

Jesus give me the grace to know the things that separate me from you and the grace to cut them out of my life.