Battle for Souls

Our life is very short and the stakes are very high: salvation or condemnation! It is for eternity—forever and ever and ever!  We will either be with God the angels and saints and Mary the Queen of the angels and saints in heaven forever! Or we will be lost forever in hell with the devil and his minions in the fire that is never extinguished,  and the worm never dies.

These are eternal truths that we should meditate upon day and night so as to attain the crown of eternal life in heaven.

Our Lady of Fatima made the sad but all too true comment that most souls are lost for all eternity in the fire of hell due to the sins of the flesh or the sins against the virtue of purity.  Our Lady appeared to the three shepherd children—Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia in 1917.

Since then the world has descended into an almost endless swamp of immorality and impurity.  Young people cohabiting, the legalization and promotion of homosexuality, adultery spreading like the wildfires of California, movies almost always portraying indecent scenes, immodest dress that provokes to no limits, addictions to pornography and masturbation, the sins against the sixth and ninth Commandments go on and on almost like an endless abyss. St. Teresa of Avila, woman Doctor of the Church made this wry comment: “Those who live in sin, we should not be surprised what they do but surprised what they do not do.”  In other words this saint asserts that the ability to sin and its malicious creativity has no limits—like the infinite abyss!

However, in the midst of the world inundated by materialism, sensuality, hedonism and worse yet—moral relativism, which really means nothing is really wrong, but all is permissible—we should always have hope. Why?   By nature we are the epitome of fragility and weakness. However, God is a strong, immovable Rock!  The Archangel Gabriel said to Mary in the account of the Annunciation—“All is possible for God!”

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