Life of St John Vianney.pdf - the Catholic Kingdom!

"""""Heaven""260 THE CUR/. OF AR8.ther could not have made satisfaction for the smallestuntruth.In the world Heaven and hell are kept out of sight:Heaven, because if men could but see its beauty they wouldhasten thither at whatever cost, and leave the world toitself ;and hell, because if they knew the torments to beendured there, they would neglect no means to escapethem.The sign of the cross is formidable to the devil, because by it we escape his power. We should make thesign of the cross with great reverence. We begin by thehead, signifying the Chief, the Creator, the Father ;thenthe heart, love, life, redemption, the Son ; the shoulders,strength, the Holy Spirit. All things remind us of thecross. We ourselves are made in the form of thecross.In Heaven we shall be nourished by the breath ofGod. The good God will place us as an architect placesthe stones in a building, each in the place fitted for it.melts into the souls of the Saints. Theybathe and drown themselves in its overflowing waters.As the disciples on Tabor saw Jesus only, so interior soulssee our Lord alone in the Tabor of their heart. They aretwo friends who never grow tired of each other.hell tillThere are some who have lost faith, and never seethey enter it.The damned shall be enveloped in the wrath of God,as the fisli in the water."It is not God who damns us^ibut we damn ourselvesby our sins. The damned do not accuse God, they accuse themselves ; they say, I have lost God, my soul, andHeaven by myfault.No one has ever been damned for having committed