{"id":19270,"date":"2018-08-29T01:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T06:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=19270"},"modified":"2018-08-27T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:46:35","slug":"need-get-closer-mercy-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2018\/08\/29\/need-get-closer-mercy-god\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need to Get Closer to the Mercy of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

God wants us to come to heaven with a transformed heart.<\/span><\/h2>\n

In the Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi, Pope Benedict XVI says that the judgment of God is for us a source of hope.<\/span> How can such tragic things – such as hell and the judgment of God – bring hope?<\/span> There are preachers who do not want to talk about hell and say that God is love, mercy, then how could hell exist.<\/span>This is trick of the devil: to turn the trust in God into presumption, that is, the person does not take his responsibilities seriously because he has the presumption that he will be forgiven!<\/span><\/p>\n

We have never preached God’s mercy so much and been so bogged down in sins as now, all because of presumption.<\/span> And so many people think, “If hell does not exist, what if I steal that money?”<\/span> If we no longer believe in the existence of hell we become people beyond good and evil.<\/span> Sin is what destroys me, which makes me a worse person;<\/span> and I can not use God’s Mercy to justify my destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sin<\/span><\/h3>\n

The mother loves her son, but hates the sin that destroys him.<\/span> We who are followers of the God who is Love must feed in our hearts an infinite love for sinners and supreme hatred for sin .<\/span> We must be able to divide these two realities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The great difference between the Christian and the non-Christian in the moral field is that the Christian sins and hates his sin;<\/span> while the non-Christian sins and makes of sin a project of life, a way of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

We need to use this sword that divides sin and sinner.<\/span> We love our sinful brothers, but we hate the [sin] they do.<\/span> The priest sitting down attends the believers in confession, because there he acts as a judge, to absolve the sinner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong><\/span> 
\n.: There is nothing more catastrophic in the world than sin<\/a><\/span> 
\nCan my sin diminish my worth as a person?<\/a><\/span> 
\n.: Pray together the prayer of the Works of Mercy<\/a><\/span> 
\n.: Mercy is the message of the heart of Jesus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Links to pages translated to English via Google translate<\/p>\n

Saint Isaac of Nineveh said: “The man who mourns his own sins is greater than he who raises the dead.”<\/span> Because?<\/span> When you weep for your own sins, the Kingdom of God is happening in you.<\/span> There are people with their hearts closed to God and to goodness.<\/span> People like this: superb, hard, do not bow to the Lord.<\/span> And there are also people like us who have this mediocre heart, we are honest, but every now and then we lie;<\/span> we pray, but from time to time we persecute those who pray;<\/span> we forgive, but we also hold sorrow.<\/span> Imagine if we will enter Heaven with such a heart?<\/span> It can not be!<\/span><\/p>\n

Mercy of God<\/span><\/h3>\n

It is of no use to us to say that we love the Lord if we do not hate our sins so that we may draw closer to Him.<\/span> If you repent of your sins, the Almighty hurls the sin into hell and saves the sinner.<\/span> We need to arrive in heaven with a changed heart, and this is the Lord’s mercy for us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hell exists not because God is not Mercy, but because we are free to turn our backs to Him. So take your life seriously, be afraid of losing God!<\/span> At the same time, we must have infinite trust in Him, trust that He did not die uselessly and that He will do everything to save us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, no one is allowed to stop preaching about the existence of hell.<\/span> The judgment of God the Father, at the end of time, is a source of great hope for us.<\/span> Our Lord wants to save us.<\/span> If you see that in your family<\/a> there are people making sin a life project, help them out of that evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

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