Abortion is a total and absolute disgrace. 55 MILLION AND COUNTING. What a National disgrace. What a black mark on the nations history. What a dark night of the nation's soul. When will Americans wake up to the horror and violence of abortion? When will they realize that they have severely offended God their creator and have intervened in his plan of creation? When will their conscience's give them sorrow? When will they realize that they will have to answer to a just God on Judgment day? When will they realize that they risk the possibility of spending eternity in the hell?
What does Saint Alphonsus De Liguroi say about sin?
Saint Alphonsus De Liguroi in his book entitled "Preparation for Death," stated the following in Chapter 26 (The Pains of Hell): "........But all these torments are nothing, compared with the pain of loss. Hell does not consist in the darkness, stench, shrieks, and fire; the pain which constitutes hell is, the pain of having lost God. "Let torments," says St. Bruno, "be added to torments, and let them not be deprived of God." And St. John Chrysostom says that a thousand hells are not equal to this pain. According to St. Augustine, if the damned enjoyed the vision of God, "they should feel no pain, and hell should be converted into a paradise." To conceive some notion of this pain, consider that, should a person lose a jewel worth a hundred crowns, the loss would occasion great pain, but were the jewel worth two hundred crowns, his pain is doubled; and if it were worth four hundred crowns, the pain is still greater. In a word, the pain which he suffers increases in proportion to the value of what he has lost. What have the damned lost? They have lost God, who is infinite good. Hence St. Thomas says that the pain of the damned is, in a certain manner, infinite. This pain is dreaded by the saints. St. Ignatius of Loyola used to say: Lord, I am willing to bear every pain, but not the pain of being deprived of Thee. But, because they live in the midst of darkness, sinners who are content to live for months and years without God do not understand this pain. However, they will know at death the great good which they lose. At its departure from this world, the soul, as St. Antonine says, instantly sees that it has been created for God. Hence it will suddenly rush forward to embrace its Sovereign Good: but, if it be in sin, God will cast it off. At its separation from the body, the soul is naturally drawn to God, but sin drags it away and sends it to hell, at a distance from Him. 'Your iniquities,' says the Prophet Isaias, 'have divided between you and your God.' The entire, then, of the hell of the damned consists in that first word of the sentence of their condemnation----"Depart from Me, you cursed." Go Jesus Christ shall say; I do not wish you ever again to see my face........."
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