Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

Thank you Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan for your weekly invitation to re-post our favorite articles on Worth Revisiting. Go here now (and every Wednesday) and let an interesting group of Catholic bloggers nourish you in your Faith journey. During the rest of each week. visit Allison at   Reconciled To You and Elizabeth at Theology Is A Verb .  You will be pleased with what they share.   Here is what I am sharing: Please, There Is No Need To Mention Hell (Originally posted February 2, 2015) Do you really think that in the never-ending battle to save souls discussing the existence and nature of hell is inappropriate, counterproductive or unnecessary?  (Image Source: Catholic Pure and Simple ) Maybe St. Teresa of Avila may cause you to change your mind:  At another time something else happened to me [Teresa of Avila] that fright­ened me very much. I was at a place where a certain person died who for many ye...

Do you really think that in the never-ending battle to save souls discussing the existence and nature of hell is inappropriate, counterproductive or unnecessary? (Image Source: Catholic Pure and Simple ) Maybe St. Teresa of Avila may cause you to change your mind: At another time something else happened to me [Teresa of Avila] that fright­ened me very much. I was at a place where a certain person died who for many years had lived a wicked life, from what I knew. But he had been sick for two years, and in some things it seems he had made amends. He died without confession, but nevertheless it didn't seem to me he would be condemned.