DO NOT ASSUME THAT SOMEONE IS ALREADY IN HEAVEN 👀 St. Vincent Ferrer recounted a narrative about an archdeacon from Lyons who renounced his position to live a life of penance in the desert. He died on the same day and hour as Saint Bernard. After his death, the archdeacon appeared to his bishop and revealed, "Know, Monsignor, that at the very hour I passed away, thirty-three thousand people also died. Out of this number, St. Bernard and myself went up to heaven without delay, three went to purgatory, and all the others fell into Hell."

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If that’s St Bernard of Clairvaux, then he died in 1153 - that is at the absolute peak of Catholicism 5 saved out of 33,000 souls. Of the 33K I guess 5K were Catholics, still only 5 saved. Something is wrong!

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If you don't work out your salvation in fear and trembling you have a bad attitude.