Meditation on Hell in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola : feast day today

Didn't Jesus teach about hell?

Preached graphic depictions of hell

Everyone knows that “fire and brimstone” preaching is ineffective and, in any case, antithetical to the spirit of the Gospel of love, right?

Then why did Jesus preach about hell so much?

Jesus gave horrifying descriptions of the place. Throughout the Gospels we find that Jesus describes hell as a place of “weeping and gnashing of teeth,” a place where “the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched,” a “blazing furnace,” “darkness,” “unquenchable fire,” and “the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” (Several of these descriptions he repeats several times.)

And he constantly warns people from doing things that would get them sent there. So maybe preaching about hell isn’t so bad?

http://www.churchpop.com/2015/03/30/the-6-most-unchrist-like-things-christ-did/

from Spirit Daily

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Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola whose feast day it is today.

FIFTH EXERCISE

IT IS A MEDITATION ON HELL

It contains in it, after the Preparatory Prayer and two Preludes, five Points and one Colloquy:

Prayer. Let the Preparatory Prayer be the usual one. 

First Prelude. The first Prelude is the composition, which is here to see with the sight of the imagination the length, breadth and depth of Hell. 

Second Prelude. The second, to ask for what I want: it will be here to ask for interior sense of the pain which the damned suffer, in order that, if, through my faults, I should forget the love of the Eternal Lord, at least the fear of the pains may help me not to come into sin. 

First Point. The first Point will be to see with the sight of the imagination the great fires, and the souls as in bodies of fire. 

Second Point. The second, to hear with the ears wailings, howlings, cries, blasphemies against Christ our Lord and against all His Saints. 

Third Point. The third, to smell with the smell smoke, sulphur, dregs and putrid things. 

Fourth Point. The fourth, to taste with the taste bitter things, like tears, sadness and the worm of conscience. 

Fifth Point. The fifth, to touch with the touch; that is to say, how the fires touch and burn the souls. 

Colloquy. Making a Colloquy to Christ our Lord, I will bring to memory the souls that are in Hell, some because they did not believe the Coming, others because, believing, they did not act according to His Commandments; making three divisions...

- The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, [1914] http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/seil/seil15.html

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A young Korean artist taken to Hell. Drew pictures of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WexriDwxBE

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The entrance it seems to me was similar to a very long and narrow alleyway, like an oven, low and dark and confined; the floor seemed to me to consist of dirty, muddy water emitting foul stench and swarming with putrid vermin...The bodily pains were so unbearable that though I had suffered excruciating ones in this life and according to what doctors say, the worst that can be suffered on earth for all my nerves were shrunken when I was paralyzed, plus many other sufferings of many kinds that I endured and even some as I said, caused by the devil, these were all nothing in comparison with the ones I experienced there...-St.Teresa of Avila's description of Hell.

http://www.tldm.org/news6/hell3.html

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STUFF HAPPENS...GO TO CONFESSION NOW WHILE YOU CAN : There are millions of people in Hell today who thought they had one more day to repent.

There are millions of people in Hell today who thought they had one more day to repent. 
from Dympha Road
http://dymphnaroad.blogspot.it/2016/09/stuff-happensgo-to-confession-now-while.htm