Pope Urban is here using scholastic terms, which distinguish “the pain of loss” (poena damni, which means deprivation of the beatific vision, which would be experienced by both those who die with mortal sin on their souls and those who die with only original sin) from “the pain of sen...
There is no evidence to prove that any Greek or Latin Father before St. Augustine ever taught that original sin of itself involved any severer penalty after death than exclusion from the beatific vision, and this, by the Greek Fathers at least, was always regarded as being strictly supernatura...
In a notorious case of papal error, Pope John XXII held the false view that the just of the Old Testament don’t receive the Beatific Vision until after the General Judgment. Pope Honorius I, a validly elected Roman Pontiff, encouraged the heresy of monotheletism (that Our Lord Jesus ...
give serious theologi- cal and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and enjoy the beatific vision," the docu- ment said."We emphasize that these are reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge," it added.The 41-page document, ...
An eternity with God experiencing the supernatural splendor of the beatific vision in heaven! Keep that in mind and don’t let the devil bully you when you're undergoing trials in this crazy world! Granted, this is hard in a competitive working or social environment, but try as much as ...
I also suspect that the experience of the Beatific Vision is different for them and for us. Suburbanbanshee says: 28 January 2019 at 3:57 PM St. John Bosco’s guardian angel apparently took on the appearance of a big German shepherd-ish wolfish-looking dog. (He called it “El Gris,...
to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.9 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell...
As Catholic Christians we are gravely aware of the necessity of the sacraments for Eternal Salvation. The first, and therefore, most important early sacrament is Baptism – the washing away of the Original Sin handed down by our First Parents. As Catholic parents, we are admonished by Holy Mo...