The pain of having through one's own fault lost some great good
"The pain of having through one's own fault lost some great good, or of
having brought upon one's self voluntarily some great evil, is a pain so
great that even in this life it causes an insupportable torment. But what
torment will that youth, called by the singular favor of God to the religious
state, feel in hell when he then perceives that if he had obeyed God he
would have attained a high place in paradise, and sees himself nevertheless
confined in that prison of torments, without hope of remedy for this his
eternal ruin! Their worm dieth not."
Saint Alfonso and the climbing of religious perfection
"Let it be understood that in religion the most dangerous temptations that
hell can bring against a subject are those against vocation, in which, if it
should succeed and conquer, by that one stroke it will have gained many
victories; for when a subject has lost his vocation and left religion, what
good will he further be able to do in the service of God? Though the enemy
may make him believe that out of religion he will have more peace and be
able to do more good, nevertheless let him hold for certain, that as soon as
he is out of it he will feel such a remorse in his heart that he will never more
have peace. And God grant that such a remorse may not torment him
afterwards through all eternity in hell, in which, as has already been said, he
who through his own fault loses his vocation falls so very easily."
Omnia instaurare in Christo
Save Our Soul
Pray for the Redemptorist vocation
Hail, Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed it is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
