Hell: Missing Forever the End
March 21, 2011 | X.Grace: To feel the pain of those who are eternally separated from God, so that if I should forget God’s love for me, the fear of eternal separation from Him would keep me from sinning.
Reflection: Just as we have meditated upon the moment of death and its inevitability for us, now we turn to meditate upon a second kind of death: an eternal one. Those who have rejected God’s love have issued their own punishment. That punishment is an eternal separation from God, an eternity of being alone.
The thought of Hell makes us uneasy—and for good reason. It is what we ultimately want to avoid, what eats away at our hopes, and what seems to be creeping into this world every day. In this meditation perhaps we could choose to consider and weigh two kinds of Hells.
Posted by Mr. Mikey Wood, S.J. in X.