Hell Exists and You Might Go There

A Serman by Father Marcel Nault

This article is based on a talk given by the author to the

bishops at our Fatima Bishops Conference.

      When I am invited to preach, I remember the wordsof Christ: "the Holy Spirit will speak in you and through you." And when Ithink about the Apostles, I do not imagine them going from town to town withtheir computer, their microphones, their recording machine, their filingcabinet. They go and they let the Holy Spirit speak. Because it is the HolySpirit that changes the heart of sinners, I put all my trust in the wisdom andthe strength of the Holy Spirit.

 

      I preach everywhere the message of Our Lady ofFatima. What will I preach? I preach what I think is the most important. Ipreach what is the most important teachings of Our Lord Jesus and when JesusChrist came on earth, He came for one reason, to save souls from Hell.

 

      St. John Chrysostom, a beloved Father of theChurch, used to say and repeat that the Lord Jesus has preached more often onthe Catholic Dogma of Hell than any other subject.

 

      Some people say it is better to preach on Heaven.I believe that the more a person meditates on that truth that we call Hell,that meditation produces many fruits of conversion.

 

      St. Benedict, the founder of the Benedictines,was in Rome and the Holy Spirit told him, "You are going to lose your soul." Heleft Rome and he went into solitude to meditate on the Holy Gospel. Hemeditated, prayed and did penance and the Holy Spirit spread the word andpeople flocked to him. Holiness attracts souls.

 

Why do you thinkSt. Augustine changed his life? Because of the fear of Hell. I preach often onHell because the Lord Jesus and Our Blessed Mother asked me to preach on Helland when I preach on Hell, you feel, you know that I believe in the realitythat we call a Roman Catholic Dogma, Hell.

 

      Pope Pius IX, who gave us the Roman CatholicDogma on the Immaculate conception; Pope Pius IX who has given us the Syllabus,used to preach and ask preachers to please, please, preach more often on Hell.

 

      The thought of Hell makes saints. Curiously,saints are afraid to go to Hell. The Cur' of Ars was afraid to go to Hell. St.Therese of the Infant Jesus was afraid to go to Hell. Saint Simon Stock, theSuperior General of the Carmel priests, said that his monks were even afraid togo to Hell despite the fact that they were fasting, praying and living out ofthe world.

 

      Mary, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, appeared to SaintSimon Stock and told him: Don't be afraid anymore, I'm giving you Carmelites aspecial vestment; all those who will die wearing that vestment will not go toHell .

 

      I wear the Brown Scapular inside my vestment andI have another one in my pocket because I never know when people will ask me topreach, and when I preach, I preach the Holy Rosary and the Brown Scapular.

 

      Mary said, "Through the Rosary and Scapular Iwill save the world."

 

      One cannot specialize and preach everything, butthe Lord Jesus invited me to preach on Hell. A Monsignor said to me, "Marcel,don't preach on Hell. People don't like that, you scare them." And in a veryfriendly way that Monsignor said to me, "Marcel, I have never preached on Helland look at the position I have. I will never preach on Hell."

 

      After a long silence, I looked him in the eye andsaid, "Monsignor, you are on the road to Hell for all eternity. You preach,monsignor, to please the crowd, instead of preaching to please Christ."

 

      When God sent prophets in the Old Testament, itwas to remind the people to come back to the truth, come back to holiness.Jesus came, Jesus preached. He sent His Apostles into the world to preach theHoly Gospel.

 

      The serpent came and spread his poisons of heresyand the Lord Jesus decided to send His Beloved Mother, the Queen of Prophets toearth to destroy heresies. And it is written by the Fathers of the Church thatthe Mother of God is the hammer of all heresies.

 

      On July 13, 1917, Mary came to Fatima as aprophet of The Most High to save souls from Hell. Our Lady lowered Her handsand suddenly, the three children saw a hole in the ground.

 

      That hole, says Lucy, was like a sea of fire inwhich she saw the forms of humans, men and women, shouting and crying indespair. And she saw demons in the forms of ugly animals. The vision was sohorrible that the children feared that they would die from fright.

 

      And Mary said to the three children, "You haveseen Hell where the souls of poor sinners go."

 

      Each time you say the Rosary, my children, do sayafter each decade, "O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires ofHell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need."

 

      Mary came to Fatima to save souls from Hell. TheCure of Ars, the patron of all parish priests, used to preach that the greatestact of charity towards your neighbor is to save souls from Hell. One day whenhe was hearing Confession in a little church, the devil, in the form of a man,raged and screamed, "I hate you, I hate you because you stole from my hand85,000 souls."

 

      You Excellencies, Cardinals and we Priests, whenwe come to the judgment, Jesus will ask one question. "I made you a priest, abishop, a cardinal, a pope. How many souls have you saved? How many souls haveyou saved from Hell?"

 

      The Cure of Ars saved more than 85,000 sinners.How many souls have we saved? When you read the Fathers of the Church, theDoctors of the Church, the Saints, you are struck by one thing; they all preachthe Holy gospel of Jesus; Heaven, Purgatory and the never fail to preach on theRoman Catholic Dogma of Hell.

 

      Read the Fathers of the Church, the doctors ofthe Church, all those priests, magnificent apostles of Jesus Christ. They allpreach on the Catholic Dogma of Hell because when we meditate on Hell we becomea saint.

 

      I don't want to criticize the bishops but it issad for me to say that in my thirty years of priesthood I have never heard abishop; my bishops or any other bishop, preach on the Roman Catholic Dogma ofHell. I suppose in India and elsewhere they do, but in America, we don't preachon Hell.

 

      Preach to save souls, not to please!  Inmany dioceses I have often heard bishops recite the Rosary but they decline toadd the little Fatima prayer after each decade because "the people don't likethat."

 

      We are not there preaching to please the crowdbut to save souls, to prevent them from going to Hell for all eternity. And Ithink the little prayer of Our Lady of Fatima given to the children on July 13,1917, is more powerful and more pleasing to God than any kind of meditation.The meditations that we priests write down and pronounce, they might be nice,but after each decade do you know a meditation more powerful, more holy thanthe prayer given by Our Lady of Fatima? Please, after each decade, do reciteit.

 

      I preach often on Hell. My friends, you havereceived your catechism, you have received your gifts from God. For me, Jesuswants me, Jesus asks me, Jesus begs me, Our Lady of Fatima begs me to preachHell.

 

      There are many revelations that we can read inthe holy books and some souls in Hell have spoken, given the privilege by God,to help us in our faith. And those souls in Hell souls say, "We could accept tobe in Hell a thousand years. We could accept to be in Hell a million years, ifwe knew that one day, we would leave Hell."

 

      But no, my friends, we must meditate, not only onthe pre-destination of seeing God in Heaven, we must also meditate on theeternity of Hell. I heard a priest in the charismatic conference with about10,000 laypeople and 300 priests present. He was preaching, "My friends, God islove, god is mercy and you will see His Infinite Mercy at the end of the world,delivering souls from Hell."

 

      What heresy! Yet his bishop did not remove hisfaculties and he was allowed to continue to preach such heresy. with our littlehuman intelligence we make a little "philosophic reasoning". God is love, Godis our Father. How can a loving Father take His little Peter and throw him into the furnace of Hell? Why that would be an insult to God, Who is love.

 

      How many times have you heard that hypocrisy? Myfriends, Hell exists. Hell is eternal. I can go into Hell. You can go intoHell. And if God had called me to my eternal reward some years ago, I wouldhave gone to Hell for all eternity, weeping, crying. Not for a million years,not for a thousand million years, but for eternity.

 

      And in gratitude to the Most Holy Trinity, to OurBlessed Mother, I go to Confession every week, I recite my 15 Mysteries of theRosary every day, my breviary, I wear my Brown Scapular. And I preach theRosary and the Brown Scapular to everyone. I preach to bishops like I preach toeveryone because bishops too have a soul to be saved.

 

      The Lord Jesus has chosen us among men to make uspriests for one reason; to offer sacrifice to the Almighty Father and savesouls from Hell. When I preach at parish retreats, I always end with thepreaching on Hell.

 

      Devotion to the Rosary is a great sign ofpre-destination.  I am not holy but I pray my Rosary, I wear my Scapular,I say my breviary, seven days a week. I say my Mass every day, I go toconfession every week and I hope (I'm not sure, nobody is sure) to go toHeaven.

 

      Nobody is sure unless they have a privaterevelation from God. Why not take all insurance Our Lady of Fatima has givenus, "Devotion to My Rosary is a great sign of pre-destination."

 

      She has given us another insurance, "that anyonedying in this habit shall not suffer eternal fire."

 

      If only one Bishop among you would have come toFatima and go back to his diocese and beseech his people, "I am your bishop. Iam here to save your souls from Hell. Please accept my teaching today, listento my teaching today. Meditate on my teaching today. And please, my priests,imitate your bishop, preach on Hell."

 

If only you woulddo this, you will be doing the greatest act of charity of your priesthood, ofyour episcopal apostolate.

 

      Preach Hell and Jesus will bless you, Jesus willforgive you your weakness, Jesus will for give your sins if you do preach Hell.By preaching Hell, you are making a terrific act of charity because those thatwill hear you, they will believe, they will change their lives and they will goto Confession.

 

      Saints go to Confession, Saints go to Confession!And those that go to Confession frequently become Saints.

 

 

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