Making It To Heaven

Grab

How do you feel when you are away from home and you miss your home?

Grace

Romans 6:3-9

God desires for us to be in heaven. God sent Jesus into the world to save us. God wants everyone to be saved. For that to happen, we need to repent of sin and put our faith in Jesus. We are to experience metanoia, and “live in newness of life.” (v.4c).  Metanoia and newness of life mean letting go of the old and avoiding sin. “We know that our old self was crucified with him so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin.” (v.6).

This is how salvation has always been.  But today, with modernists in our Church, this is no longer the case.  Today it is just about accepting the sinner but not trying to get him out of his sin. The whole modernist posture and teaching keep people in their grave sins!  They even become comfortable in their sin.  There are even those who celebrate their sin, as is manifest in Gay Pride events.

Modernists are doing a great injustice to sinners.  Instead of teaching the ways of God, they bury people deeper into the ways and culture of the world. Instead of helping people turn to Christ and live his way of life, they turn them away from Jesus and even help them insult and degrade our Lord, as when they receive Holy Communion while in grave sin.  Instead of being freed from slavery to sin, they are bound even more strongly to evil. Instead of helping them get to heaven, they facilitate their downfall into hell.

We need to die to our sins and be united with Christ.  This is the only way we will make it to eternal life.  “For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection.” (v.5).

Source: From the Servant General, Modernism Part 14 - All Souls Day

As said in Matthew 22, we are invited to a heavenly Banquet and there is a required wedding garment (This is about repentance) Jesus’ parable makes clear that, whatever one’s past actions may have been, the indispensable condition is to wear the wedding garment, that is, to have our soul clean and a repentant heart, to embrace a way of life that gives testimony to love for God and neighbor. We need this to make it to heaven.

CCC 1037 God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want "any to perish, but all to come to repentance"

Gather

1. What are my challenges in responding to the call to repentance and continuous conversion towards heaven?

2. How will I help others to make it to heaven?

Go Forth

Share a copy of Examination of Conscience to your family and invite them to go to Confession.

Give

God is Generous and in response, let us be good stewards by consistent Spiritual Giving, our tithing. 

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