Upon the Four Principal Gates of Hell - St. Alphonsus Liguori 

May He be praised always

Amen

Pray the Rosary everyday for the salvation of your own soul too

The Glories Of Mary by St Alphonsus Liguori

@@duromusabc can you please tell me what are the Glories of Mary? Is it a kind of devotion? Is there a book that I could read about this?

@@lmlmlmlm7627 it is a book written by St Alphonsus Liguori- in my opinion his masterpiece- you can order it from Amazon

@@lmlmlmlm7627 yes it is a devotion Catholic book focused on the Virgin Mary- his best book on the Virgin Mary

Give me Purgatory over Hell anytime!

We do well to learn to be content in hope while on earth, for hope will be our only relief in purgatory

Of the many, the most widely used

Humans are not puppets. And God doesn’t make people hurt other people. Satan does. Those are actual human souls being tortured and tricked by Satan

I agree except the first should be Daily Mass and reception of the Eucharist, God bless 🙏

@@ShoJ369, sure. But most can only go to mass once a week. Rosary is daily. 🤗

@@tgwcl6194 I don't know where you are, but here in Belfast my friends and I go to Mass every evening, except Sunday, as it's a morning service. We are retired, so manage 3 Rosaries a day. It depends where you live and what stage of life you're at too. In saying that the Churches will close after Thursday for another lockdown, we will watch Mass daily online. The Rosary is beautiful ❤, God bless you 🙏

yes, would like to add time in Adoration, agreat aid to our journey

I’m wearing my brown scapular I also have purple scapulars

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Might not even be them RU-vid has sent out that they can put commercials I. What ever they want

Commercials are not appropriate in sermons,much more with prayers. 🙏🙏♥️

You can get a subscription to RU-vid to remove the commercials.

RU-vid just changed their terms of service. I got an e-mail about it this past week. They have decided that they can randomly put whatever ads they want in any videos they want. The content creators don't get any revenue from these ads. This is pure youtube. They've certainly made sure to put NUMEROUS ads in many religious videos.

Indeed. There is a difference between revenge and justice. There are situations where forgiveness is the right answer. One could in even say that in most situations one may experience, one should simply forgive. But there are situations like you mentioned, such as child abuse, pedophilia, and the like, where the right thing to do is to report it to the proper authorities and not simply to forgive. It's very good point you brought up. What St. Alphonsus was talking about had to do with something common at the time in which those who had their reputation or honour taken from them would plot revenge against the one who did that. Defending oneself from those accusations is different than taking revenge. He wasn't talking about rape, child abuse, or pedophilia. I think he would agree that those people should go to jail. While I can agree that it is ideal for the victims of these acts to forgive the perpetrator, I also understand that this is not always possible. AND by "forgive" I mean release, which means to let go of bitterness. I do not mean exoneration, which means to act as though the incident never happened or restore a relationship with the person. To exonerate someone requires the person to be genuinely repentant, and even then the trauma inflicted on the victim may make that practically impossible in this life.

Maybe so. But to grow in a state of grace, all that you said does not matter.... in fact, matters very greatly. ---immeasurably, so!

It actually is He taught that the way to Hell is wide He spoke as well with the truth have you not read Matthew Ch. 5, 6, 7? Love is not a feeling but an act of the will neither is it a tone of voice or something that sounds good. Love wills the good of the other the will of God is our salvation but we cant be saved if we are blind to our ways if we are in mortal sin. We are happy He came to save us and revealed to us how to avoid falling into Hell through the love of Jesus Christ can we overcome. Did not God raise the author of this teaching to Sainthood? Yes He did this is St. Alphonsus Ligouri. And the thus Jesus Himself says in Matthew 7: 16You shall know them by their fruits. Can grapes be gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17So then, every good tree produces good fruit, and the evil tree produces evil fruit.Many are presumptive to think that Hell doesn't exist anymore it's why this teaching is necessary. Especially those who are blinded by lust. God loves those who love Him and wants to save those who are enslaved but how can they know the way if they presume they can continue living in lust and fornication or immoral sexual sins because Jesus died and we are forgiven no one needs to change? That's the error this Sermon is correcting. Because many presume this following the lie of the liar but God wants our freedom. Blindly are they lead by the blind if you follow only the passions of what sounds good. If you had a daughter co-habitating with a boyfriend would you not tell her the truth?? Would you not want to tell her by your authority the wrong and sin she is to simply turn her around back to God?

​@@nataliabenoit4653 Yes, I understand my dear, however, to say; Do this or hell...is VERY limiting. We have to realize that the man or woman for example; caught up in lust, we cannot look upon them and say; Repent or be damned. We have to BE THE EXAMPLE, pray for those whom we see 'caught up' in the sin, then sacrifice for their conversion. Perhaps, our children immodesty dressed through our poor teaching have been the occasion for another's downfall . Things are not black and white for discerning another's plight. We have only to look to ourselves, and convert. Purity is a virtue that is lifelong and increases due to our conversion. I have heard toooooo many sermons that CONDEMN and we follow suit in judging another's sin. The focus MUST remain on our own act getting cleaned up and then LOVINGLY, as God so directs us, we can gently assist others with GREAT COMPASSION. ALWAYS remembering to take the log out of our own eye, before removing the splinter in another's.

@@marieleopold1625 I simply was meaning our own but used the child example in order to understand the sermons intention as a Father. St John the Baptist lol said repent or else I mean it's the truth you cannot look at anything else but that when we die. So as this Saint holds a responsibility as St. John the Baptist did and any parent to tell people the truth. It's not wrong if it's to guide them back. Love tells the truth compassion doesn't tolerate or minimize the severity of the situation if your responsibility is for ones soul we will be even judged on that as well. Jesus leads us through it this is a Spirit led Sermon by a Saint I love my favorite book of his is "The Glories if Mary" it has a lot of that love factor you might be desiring to understand. The book also includes the 7 sorrows rosary.

This what the devil wants: that we deny the presence of hell and the existence of the devil. Then he can do his work in secret seeking the ruin of our souls. And yes it is God who will conquer him if we allow His (God’s) love enter into our hearts and minds.

Hope is in the name of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.

There is always hope.

Same, brother, sister.

Keep in mind though that mortal sin requires grave matter, full knowledge, and full consent. If one of those is missing, it's not mortal sin. Many people who use Jesus as a cuss word is oblivious to how serious that is or say it out of habit after seeing others do it. Same thing with saying "O God" or "O Lord" or "god---- it." Nonetheless, it is sad how using religious titles as cuss words (or cussing itself for that matter) have become so normalized that practically everyone uses them now.