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I used to think my chances of making it to Heaven were better than ordinary people because I was a Catholic. But in point of fact, my chances were worse. Having completed Confirmation, God would be holding me accountable to comply with everything Rome teaches and stands for-- the Commandments, the Canon Law, the dogma, the rituals, the Traditions, the Councils, the Bulls, the Encyclicals, the rites, the holy days of obligation, and the whole Catechism; plus everything that Jesus and the apostles taught in the New Testament, i.e. the gospels and the epistles.
That's a lot to remember, let alone put into practice.
And then there's the matter of mortal sin. Were I to leave this life with just one non-absolved mortal sin on the books, just one, I'd go straight to hell. It's a direct flight; no stopover in a Purgatory. Even if I managed to be a faithful Catholic for fifty years, none of that would count. Mortal sins are that lethal.
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I used to think my chances of making it to Heaven were better than ordinary people because I was a Catholic. But in point of fact, my chances were worse. Having completed Confirmation, God would be holding me accountable to comply with everything Rome teaches and stands for-- the Commandments, the Canon Law, the dogma, the rituals, the Traditions, the Councils, the Bulls, the Encyclicals, the rites, the holy days of obligation, and the whole Catechism; plus everything that Jesus and the apostles taught in the New Testament, i.e. the gospels and the epistles.
That's a lot to remember, let alone put into practice.
And then there's the matter of mortal sin. Were I to leave this life with just one non-absolved mortal sin on the books, just one, I'd go straight to hell. It's a direct flight; no stopover in a Purgatory. Even if I managed to be a faithful Catholic for fifty years, none of that would count. Mortal sins are that lethal.
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