“My love and all that this love has conceived can save them” (Inner Word).
Unfortunately, not a few people have gone seriously astray. If they do not convert, their lives will become increasingly dark and they may even be eternally condemned.
It would be a deception to omit this truth of our Catholic faith, as if we were in a position to correct God and as if His words, which warn that human beings can fail in their goal in time and eternity, should not be taken so seriously. Some even dare to say that hell does not exist, or that if it does, it is empty.
Are such ideas really the expression of a greater love and mercy?
No, they are not. They are simply false and misleading.
What we need to do is to praise God’s will to save and to realise that in His love He tries everything to reach mankind. No way is too far, no burden too heavy, no effort too great to go out in search of the lost and pave the way for them to return to Him. Indeed, God loves mankind and it is this love that will not let Him rest until the last lost sheep of His flock has been saved.
It is a love that constantly opens up new paths and uses every possible option to follow people into their abysses and catch them with the “net of love”.
We too will be moved by the same love to go out with the Father in search of the lost and to strengthen those who are faltering. This is what we must focus on in order to make use of all the possibilities that are offered to us for the salvation of souls. In this way, the awareness that people can be condemned becomes an incentive for us not to falter in our efforts and to intercede for all in prayer.