St Catherine Reveals the MOMENT Before a Sinner Falls into Hell

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]You and I, my friends, are God willing, and God is willing, not going to go to hell because we are repentant sinners.

[00:00:07]Now, as repentant sinners, we have the responsibility of praying for and being God's instrument of conversion for non-repentant sinners. Now, to do this, God's grace and knowledge is power. St. Catherine of Siena, the doctor of the church, reveals to us the very moment that sinners die and all the temptations of the devil throws at them so that we can know exactly how to pray for them and save their souls. We're going to get into that in today's video. Listen to this. Not so excellent, dearest daughter, is the end of these other poor wretches who are in great misery as I have related to thee. How terrible and dark is their death because in the moment of death, as I told thee, the devil accuses them with great terror and darkness, showing his face, which thou knowest is so horrible that the creature would rather choose any pain that can be suffered in this world than see it. And so greatly does he freshen the sting of conscience that it gnaws him horribly.

[00:01:14]The disordinate delights and sensuality of which he made lords over his reason accuse him terribly because then he knows the truth of that which at first he knew not, and his errors brings him to great confusion.

[00:01:30]In his life he lived unfaithfully to me, self-love having veiled the pupil of the most holy faith. Wherefore the devil torments him with infidelity in order to bring him to despair.

[00:01:46]Oh, how hard for them is this battle because it finds them disarmed without the armor of affection and charity because as members of the devil, they have been deprived of it all. Wherefore they have not the supernatural light, neither the light of science, because they did not understand it, the horns of their pride not letting them understand the sweetness of its marrow.

[00:02:13]Wherefore now in the great battle, they now they know not what to do. They are not nourished in hope because they have not hoped in me, neither in the blood of which I made the ministers. Now, in this particular case, God the Father is talking to her about a prelate or a priest going to hell.

[00:02:33]But in themselves alone and in the dignities and delights of the world. And the incarnate wretch did not see that all was counted to him with interest, and that as a debtor, he would have to render an account to me.

[00:02:49]Now he finds himself denuded and without any virtue.

[00:02:54]And on whichever side he turns, he hears nothing but reproaches with great confusion. His injustice, which he practiced in his life, accuses him to his conscience. Wherefore he dares not ask other than justice.

[00:03:13]And I tell thee that so great is that shame and confusion that unless in their life they have taken the habit of hoping in my mercy, that is have taken the milk of mercy, although on account of their sins, this is great presumption.

[00:03:30]For you cannot truly say that he who strikes me with the arm of my mercy has a hope in my mercy, but rather has presumption. There is not one who would not despair.

[00:03:41]And with despair, they would arrive with the devil and eternal damnation. Let Let's stop and comment here because there's so much to unpack. So, first of all, because of this person's sin, as you heard, they only look at God's justice and cannot look at God's mercy because they have not availed themselves of God's mercy during their life.

[00:04:03]So, we need to practice becoming strong in hope and clarity of mind, and the clarity of mind is specifically in seeing God's mercy. What is God's mercy? That he can forgive anything. That that simple bit of information, we must practice believing at all times. Enough for us, but enough also to pray for people who are going through this struggle because when we pray for another person, we in some ways take on their burden. So, when we're praying for those that are dying, especially poor sinners, we might get attacked with some of this hopelessness and confusion. Make sense? Of course, but we are brave repentant sinners, and this is our duty. So, we cannot, because we're going to get attacked, not do it.

[00:04:54]Erroneous thinking. We must help these people and save them. Jesus wants us to, so we must appeal to God's mercy. I suggest a chaplet of divine mercy, implore God's hope on them, and develop trust in these things so that we can do so very firmly to dislodge the attack of the devil. Let's keep listening.

[00:05:18]But arriving at the extremity of death and recognizing [snorts] his sin, his conscience unloaded by holy confession and presumption taken away so that he offends no more, there remains mercy. And with this mercy, he can, if he will, take hold on hope. This is the effect of mercy to cause him to hope therein during their life, although I do not grant them this so that they should offend me by means of my mercy, but rather that they should dilate themselves in charity and in the consideration of my goodness, but they act in a contrary way because they offend me in the hope in which they have in my mercy. So, it it's like he's saying that these people are saying, "No, I'm going to repent later. I'm going to repent later." So, they never appeal to God's mercy until the very end, which is called presumption. We need to always, right now, appeal to God's mercy, not wait until later which is presuming that it's going to be there.

[00:06:17]And then we get there and then it's not.

[00:06:18]That is foolishness and presumption and then it's a sin. It's actually a sin.

[00:06:23]And nevertheless, I keep them in this hope so that at the last moment they may have something which they may lay hold of.

[00:06:31]And by so doing, not faint away with the condemnation which they receive and thus arrive at despair.

[00:06:38]For this final sin of despair is much more displeasing to me and injures them much more than all the other sins which they have committed.

[00:06:49]That's an important point worth repeating to ourselves that despairing in God's mercy is the greatest in the week commit more than all the others. If you've ever committed serious sins, it could be difficult to let go of them in your mind.

[00:07:07]The devil keeps bringing them back to us. It's difficult to just forgive them and to let them go in confession, but that's what we must do. And if we must practice this, we practice this to pray for those that have never done that.

[00:07:21]Someone who hasn't repented, waiting till the last moment, which in some other video, I always forget which ones I make, but but another video I talk about how this is the one sin, this is the one sin that could really lead you to damnation and to a long, long purgatory. And this is the reason why this sin is more dangerous to them and displeasing to me because they commit other sins through some delight of their own sensuality and they sometimes grieve for them. And if they grieve in the right way, their grief will procure them mercy.

[00:07:53]But it is no fragility of your nature which moves you to despair for there is no pleasure and nothing but intolerable suffering in it. So, this sin is so harmful and God is so sad about this and because other sins we commit for the pleasure that we get. But when we commit the sin of despair, it's pure torture. It leads you to hell. And so when we're praying for these people that are dying, we must pray for them to be delivered of any despair and any spirits of despair that are trying to get them to lose hope. One who despairs despises my mercy, making his sin to be greater than mercy and goodness, which is which it is not. Wherefore if a man fall into this sin, he does not repent and does not truly grieve for his offense against me as he should, grieving indeed for his own loss.

[00:08:43]So, he sat for himself but not for the offense done to me and therefore he receives eternal damnation. See therefore that this sin alone leads him to hell, where he is punished for this and all the other sins which he has committed.

[00:08:57]Whereas had he grieved and repented for the offense done to me and hoped in my mercy because these people have sinned so much, they can't even look at God.

[00:09:05]They're embarrassed and ashamed to look at God. That's why they only ask for God's justice. In that despair of sin, they're like, "Lord, just punish me. I don't deserve to ask for mercy." It's embarrassing and humiliating to them and they haven't practiced humility, which is why it's hard for them to do.

[00:09:21]And hoped in my mercy, he would have found mercy. For as I've I have I For as I have said to thee, my mercy is greater without any comparison than all the sins which any creature can commit.

[00:09:35]This is worth repeating. This is worth writing all over the place. My mercy is greater without comparison than all the sins which any creature can commit. We must never forget this and totally ignore any voice of anyone that says otherwise. Wherefore it greatly displeases me that they should consider their sins to be great greater. Despair is that sin which is pardoned neither here nor hereafter. And it is because despair displeases me so much that I wish them to hope in my mercy at the point of death, even if their life have been disordered and wicked. Even if we've been wicked, God doesn't care. I mean, he doesn't want us to be wicked, obviously. He doesn't care. He doesn't want us to go to hell. And I see this a lot in the church, where because we're angry at another person's sin, let's say a priest or whoever, we want them to be judged and condemned in some way. We're angry at them. That's okay to be angry at the sins of other people, to hate the evil that they do, but if you saw how you would not want to send them there.

[00:10:41]So, don't carry with you those sentiments of judgment.

[00:10:45]This is why during their life I use this sweet trick with them, making them hope greatly in my mercy. For when having fed themselves with this hope they arrive at death, they are not so inclined to abandon it on account of the severe condemnation they receive as if they had not so nourished themselves. So, look at that, that God is even willing to trick us with his mercy just to save us, to get us to not go to hell. So, my friends, we must be aware of how awful and horrible a battle and an assault it is at the hour of death. We should be ready by repenting regularly, by confessing regularly, by imploring God's mercy. We need to practice and build this muscle of trust in God's mercy.

[00:11:28]That's why the Divine Mercy Devotion, I think, is incredibly incredibly crucial, especially in this time when people ignore God for most of their lives and we need to pray for the dying.

[00:11:39]Incredibly important. All those souls will then be saved and at least go to purgatory and then you can pray for them out of purgatory and they will get into heaven and you are giving them as a gift to Jesus Christ. If sinners if you think if you find sinners despicable, okay, you shouldn't because we're all sinners, but if you do, then at least do it for Jesus because he wants no one to go to hell. My friends, I hope this helped you. If it did, please subscribe and like and support through buy me a coffee. I'll see you in the next one.