Dare We Hope All Men Are Saved?

"You Have Seen Hell Where Poor SInners Go..."

Some might recognize the title of this post as a Book by Hans Urs von Balthasar, and is probably the Main Credo of the Conciliar Church.  Pope Frantic recently said that he hoped that Hell was empty.  Our Lady of Fatima probably hoped that Hell would be empty, too, during that titanic struggle at the Foot of the Cross when she suffered more than what the damned and the demons will ever suffer in Hell of all eternity and more than what every wolf and cat and deer suffered here below from heat and starvation and predators.  But when the Proverbial Smoke and Dust cleared Our Lady clearly saw that Hell was not empty, which is the basis for her sixth and seventh sorrows.

We certainly do pray mightily that Hell might be as empty as possible, and make it our business, by our penances, our tears, our sighs, our mortification, and our afflictions, to drag as many souls as possible from the abyss.  That should be our concern, 24/7, as they say in the modern world.

But Hell most certainly is not empty.  Now, this Wolf might dispute with some of the saints, one who said he saw two saints go to heaven, three souls go to purgatory, and twenty thousand souls go to Hell.  This Wolf does not believe that the marvelous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Sorrows of Our Lady could yield such little fruit.  He is aware of that verse in the Apocalypse where Saint John enumerates the 144,000 saved from the Tribes of Israel, and then a huge throng, "which nobody could count" following "the Lamb whithersoever he goes".  Seeing as Our Lord named two animals to represent the elect and the damned, namely, sheep and goats, this Wolf does think that the number of the elect and the damned is roughly half and half.  That being said, that is still an awful lot.  Go up to a the choir loft a packed church on Sunday, and imagine all the folks on the right marching into Heaven, and all the folks on the Left going to Hell.

Moreover, we must attest that what the saint said certainly holds true today, just as it held for Sodom when fire and brimstone fell from the skies.  God told Abraham He would spare the city if he could find ten good men.  (Abraham bargained Him down from a starting figure of seventy.)  We know how that worked out.  And today the vast majority of men are unaware that Damnation is the "default" position- "Unless a man believe and be baptized..."

Good Pope John denounced the "Prophets of Gloom".  Good Pope John said that Holy Mother Church is no longer going to afflict the comfortable, but rather shower them with the "mercy of God".  And for more than 50 years, that has been the thrust of the Conciliar Church.  People go to church and they are entertained, or given sermons on the success of the school football team, or current events, anything and everything but a contemplation of Eternity.

Yes, in the Immaculate Heart one will find nothing but an ocean of mercy, but outside of that one will find the ocean of the Justice of God.  In the Immaculate Heart one will find that, to paraphrase The Little Flower St Therese: All the sins of the world are but a drop of vinegar in the Ocean of Our Lady's Sorrows.  But outside of that Heart one will see nothing but the Wrath of God.

So why is there so little talk of Our Lady?  Why is there so little talk of True Devotion to Mary, the Total Consecration of St Louis Marie de Montfort, and Our Lady as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces?

Meanwhile, the notion that all men are saved reduces the Gospel to a cosmic joke, and makes God a liar.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.  You are our only hope!