Do You Go to Hell If You’ve Never Heard of Jesus? 

I was born and raised Catholic, but at 62 years old, have finally found my way back to God. Going back to church, learning how to do the rosary, and finally have faith, peace, and trust in God. I am currently doing the Bible in a Year podcast from 2021. It has been difficult because i have learning and memory problems, but i am not giving up. Thank God Father Mike explains it each day, or i would never understand it.❤

Christ told St. Faustina to “Proclaim that mercy is the greatest attribute of God.” He wants all of us with Him…Praying that we will all be together one day in heaven. Thank you Father Mike! 🙏

Praise Be Jesus Christ Now and Forever

Perhaps the hardest part of Christianity is the narrowness of the road that leads to salvation. So many loved ones who all we can do is be inviting to and pray for.

Thank you Father Mike, i hope you can read this, because i came back to church after 21 years of missing church and being away from God. Thanks be to God he never forgot about me and never left me alone. God bless Father Mike ✝️

"Those who...seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience -- those too may achieve eternal salvation." (CCC 847) God bless, Fr. Mike! 😀✝

Jesus Christ has illuminated your mind beautifully and lit up many rooms.

Our Sins are just like a *DROP* of Fire 🔥 in the incomprehensible Ocean 🌊 of God's Love and Mercy.

Peace be with all my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. Peace to the world. Love you all.

Thank you father. I want to be a saint but am so dragged down by my fallen nature. Please pray for me, for God's grace and perseverance.

Hallelujah..always praise and worship God..in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit..Thank you Lord Jesus 🙏🌹

The Chaplet of The Divine Mercy Novena Fourth Day: Today bring to Me The PAGANS AND THOSE WHO DO NOT YET KNOW ME. I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy.

that was awesome father. Thanks You! Pray for you daily! I ask the same. Peace!

Thank you for this explanation, Fr Mike. May God bless. Claire.

I don't want to get to the top of any earthly mountain - I want to get to Heaven!!

Thank you, God, for your Son, our lord, Jesus Christ, and our Holy Catholic Church and your many blessings and graces. Amen.🙏🕊🔥🌹💝

Awsome Father.Keep speaking truth💕🇨🇦

Thank you Father Mike. I ask you, Jesus, to help me spread your word through your grace and mercy. Give me hope to save myself snd those who do not know you or know you and do not believe.

How refreshing our days to run into a priest actually preaching✨

Thank you Father Mike Schmitz. Hope you have a great day and have a great weekend.😎🙏

Very insightful

I usually love listening to you Fr Mike, but this is one of the reasons many of the new generation struggle to stay Orthodox or Catholic. I grew up Orthodox and left church and now recently started going go a Catholic Church because i heard of Fr Richard Rohr and he completely changed my mind on my understanding of Christ. I am disheartened to hear this message but also recognize we are all humans and have our interpretation/ perception and will continue to listen to you because there area so many things i have learned from you, like the video you shared on the Holy Mass made me weep wuth joy 🙏🏽

Thanks Fr Mike for putting this out, hopefully many will hear this .

Wow wow wow no religion can get us to God...God had to come to us

Amen 🙏🙏🙏 thank you Fr Mike and may Almighty God bless you ❤

I think Jesus is deeper than just knowing him. I believe all people have something inside them that is a quality Jesus wanted from us and that is love, humility and repentence and love humility and repentence can still be expressed in life without knowing him or maybe this qualities is to know him tjrough the chores they did.

Gracias Father Mike, GOD Bless You ☝️💯💯

Thank you Father Mike. Might send to Muslim friend

Great Video . Always on point with the best questions.

We are praying for you father, God bless you

Glory to Jesus Christ, Glory Forever! I am so grateful I left Calvinism for the truth of the Catholic Church. Calvinism tries to have an answer for everything regarding soteriology and in so doing constructs a totally different God. Catholicism allows for the mystery of God and for hope alongside the truth that God desires all to be saved, and it's our job as Christians to spread this good news!

I love this. Fr. Mike touched on this in Catechism in a Year. Anyone with theology questions should listen to that entire podcast series. You will be surprised how much you learn and truly enjoy it. I learned today that the new bishop coming to the diocese of Camden is Fr. Williams from St. Paul, MN. I hope he is cut from the same cloth as Fr. Mike.

Hi I am EO but I love the Catholic Church

Thank You Jesus I am trying very hard to get to heaven and also lead others to heaven as well. Everyone please pray for each other

God will enlighten those with his grace whom he wishes to save, so long as we accept his grace and repent and believe in the gospel and die in union with the Church.

Why would God do that if it's not anyone's fault? He's not human, he's much smarter and better than we are.

CCC 847 really threw me off! I was so confused until I had to reflect on 'Why Jesus came?'

Amen. Preach it.

8:23 reminds me of this verse: ““Now, son of man, I am making you a watchman for the people of Israel. Therefore, listen to what I say and warn them for me. If I announce that some wicked people are sure to die and you fail to tell them to change their ways, then they will die in their sins, and I will hold you responsible for their deaths. But if you warn them to repent and they don’t repent, they will die in their sins, but you will have saved yourself.” ‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭33‬:‭7‬-‭9‬ ‭NLT‬‬ The greatest commandment is to love God with all our heart, strength and might and love our neighbour as ourselves. To love God is to truly care about the things He cares about and our brothers and sisters that He loves sooo much that He died for on the cross. God does not rejoice at the death of a sinner and he wants all people to be saved. Therefore, out of love more than any obligation, we should strive to tell people the GOOD NEWS and make them friends with God. “All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also.” ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭18‬ ‭GNBDK‬‬

Amen!

Amen 🙏

Jesus loves you and is with you

Thank you Fr Mike, can you please make a video about how to be a consecrated virgin? I'm planning to become one, much appreciated. May God bless you!

Amen.

Praise be Jesus Christ my Savior. Thank God I am Catholic.

Gods grace ♥️even as catholic Christians you still might not now him or his church. Thanks for the teachings.

I've seen that mountain metaphor a lot. Interesting to see it applied in a different and more profoundly shocking way. We can climb as high as we can, we can become near perfect human beings, and still have no power to reach God. Only he can come to us. Thanks for updating this metaphor and giving us a better way of thinking about it.

Hello fr mike. I would love a video about mother theresas quote. "I convert a muslim to be a better muslim. A protestant to be a better protestant. A hindu to be a better hindu etc" i am struggling to see how this works. Thank you and God bless

I was asking this question when I was six years old.

I’m not the Judge, but Jesus said; “No one comes to the Father but through Me.”

Yearly celebration .. is enough to understand , there jesus " who is person " , search about him & don't disturbing by knocking doors ❤

I appreciate the distinction made here between an organized religion and the way revealed through Jesus. There is a huge difference that we all must remember and put into perspective. There is no religion that is perfect, they are merely frameworks to work within. Jesus’ truth and sacrifice, however, reigns above all groups and labels we put ourselves in. I am a Catholic not because I think the religion is perfect, but because the framework of Christ’s original Church is something that I believe is very valuable. We are all sinners and imperfect, that includes the people within our Church. Let us always be humble and remember this. Through grace and God’s mercy we are saved from our choice of sin.

If we read the Gospel according to Jonh 13:34-35 Jesus said that if we love each will know we are Christ's disciples by our love.

Romans 1 says it all ..

I guess I’ll be finding out one day. Least of my worries.

Amen! The best explanation I have ever heard.

This is such a great and priority-establishing message. I often wish I could be Catholic. Either way, this is a very thoughtfully considered way of seeing the hope we have for the lost.

Like Fr Mike says, pray for those who are not Catholic and share your Faith. If you are afraid, pray that you may not have to go before God at the end of your life to tell Him you neglected to share His truth with one of His little ones, who may never know Gods love in life, or possibly after. It’s never easy and I promise it’s almost always just a little awkward to invite someone to Mass or an event, but there is nothing more rewarding (and humbling) to see how God uses you to transform lives.

John 3:16. Only by Jesus.

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What about Noah along with the patriarchs, kings & prophets?

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You’re right. It is written only through Christ, no other way.

Can't get into heaven without God's grace

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I always thought that people who didn't know Christ would be given a chance to be saved. It didn't make sense otherwise - to me at least.

So modern man has been around for approx 300,000, that's 298,000 years of people that lived fulfilled lives without the christian god of the Levant 🤷

God have mercy also .. to thoese who get uncorrect information a bout jesus & have not clear answer ..God has great mercy to these people ❤

Can you apply to top fry London for me please

What do you then say about Elijah and Enoch who were taken to heaven?

Ok, but what about "2 Kings 2 NIV - Elijah Taken Up to Heaven" (When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal), and did Abraham ascended to heaven (Genesis Chapter 15).

What about moses

Dr House ?😂😅😊❤

Pius IX condemns as error that there is a good hope of salvation of those not in the true church of christ. So there is hope but not good hope.

1 John 4:7-12: Beloved, let us love one another because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten of God and has knowledge of God. The person without love has known nothing of God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed in our midst in this way: he sent his only Son to the world that we might have life through him. Love then, consists in this: not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us and has sent his Son as an offering for our sins. Beloved, if God has loved us so, we must have the same love for one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet if we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.

ST. POPE JOHN PAUL II: “The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all. But it is clear that today, as in the past, many people do not have an opportunity to come to know or accept the Gospel revelation or enter the Church. The social and cultural conditions in which they live do not permit this, and frequently they have been brought up in other religious traditions. For such people salvation in Christ is accessible by virtue of a grace, which, while having a mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally part of the Church but enlightens them in a way which is accommodated to their spiritual and material situation. This grace comes from Christ; it is the result of his Sacrifice and is communicated by the Holy Spirit. It enables each person to attain salvation through his or her free cooperation.”

Shifting gears here; im having a problem with coming to the catholic church when it seems they are caving more and more on things they were once against. What do I do? How is this reconciled?

Is Father saying that we will perish if we dont bring Jesus to others?

Not that I find the Bible particularly true but it does say good works to heaven

Jesus said that all those who cry Lord Lord shall not enter the kingdom of Heaven , but those who do God's will. He also said that He and the Father are one, so I believe that an atheist who does good and selfless act's of charity which is I believe to be God's will can and will go to Heaven by the infinite mercy of Jesus Christ.

Most Christians in Turkiye are Protestants. Because they have a lot of resources to read and watch. But we Catholics don't have many resources to watch or read. So please add Turkish subtitles to all your videos.

there's one truth: NO ONE KNOWS what happens when you die, no one. I hope there is a Heaven though. please pray for me and others struggling with belief.

What about the people who were raised in communists countries there's no religion.Could we pray for the ones who died without knowing God?

I really liked and appreciated this video, but I do have one question regarding those followers of God in the faith before Christ. Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus at the Transfiguration. Jesus had not died on the cross yet for the world's sins. Were Moses and Elijah taken from the abode of the dead and not Heaven to appear at the Transfiguration?

Though I really like this particular short sermon it is because of this particular short sermon, the message that Christ is the only way to the Father that I left Catholicism years ago. I don't believe that scripture anywhere supports the notion of purgatory or praying to any saint for salvation. I do believe in the original meaning of Catholicism as originally the universal Christian Church.

Read Matthew 7:21 - 23 if you think your good works will get you into Heaven

Father what is the difference between committing a mortal sin and being in a state of mortal sin? Or is there no difference?

A Jew, Buddhist, Hindi, Muslim who lives a good life according to the Ten Commandments will go to heaven before any Christian who proves himself a hypocrite

Fr. Mike why don’t we bow our heads and close our eyes any more when we hear or say Jesus. Granted I was raised in the dark ages, before V. II, but still love and respect wasn’t wiped out like other things were. Most foreign priests bow but most American priests don’t. Why????

0:43 how you explain those whom Jesus said in Matthew chapter 7 depart from me you worker's of iniquity,l never knew you.

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Unfortunately yes they will this is why we must spread his word to all so that they can be saved

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I desperately have a doubt please answer it father ,if I am in mortal sin yet say a perfect act of contrition , resolving to go to confession still there is no grave reason for me to receive the eucharist except I want to receive (but preceding is repentance towards my sin) am I doing the right thing or am I committing mortal sin

If the heart desires God, but the body dies without the individual ever knowing God, does God still fulfill the desire of the heart to know God after the body dies? According to Jesus, the one who hungers and thirsts after righteousness has a blessing of being filled. But can that blessing occur for the soul after the body has died? If the blessing is for the soul and not the body, it would seem irrelevant that the body had died when the time came to bless the soul.

Imagine sending people that you've created in your own image to eternal torment...

The Catholic Church has the best theology & view of "salvation" of all mainstream Christian churches. But even the Catholic Church has a grossly incomplete and shallow view of what the Logos is and the actual process of salvation.

The pre jusus n christianiy that are now dead they experience jesus and saw his power and the true god. If they blieve what they saw n heard have ask for forgiveness are allow in heaven.

Good evening Fr Mike. My name is Magdalene from Singapore🇸🇬a tiny little country in South-East Asia which is multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-religious. I have 2 questions I hope you can help me with: What about someone like Mahatma Gandhi who advocated non-violence and ascetic self-sacrifice, yet who told the Christians of his time - I love your Christ but do not respect you Christians. Something like that. The story goes that once in his youth, Gandhi tried to enter a church in England but was barred from doing so, and worse yet, insulted by a pompous so-called white Christian. That incident was what turned him off Christianity for good. I should think the one who refused to give him that chance to know Christ, just because of his skin colour, would be far more culpable. The list could go on and on, I suppose, even for the founders of the great Eastern religions who lived and died before Christ, yes, like Buddha and the founders of Sikhism, Jainism, the Dalai Lana, etc. Just wondering what your thoughts would be on this. Thank God and bless you, Father.

Jesus died for all our sins.