GOSPEL REFLECTION: Heaven and Hell Hell: Scripture: Mt 25:41 Jesus described hell as an “everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” Mk 9:48 Jesus described hell as a place where “the worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.” Fatima: July 13: Lucia wrote: “We were now able to behold a sea of fire. Plunged in the flames were devils and human souls that looked like transparent embers, others were black or brown and in human form; these were suspended in

GOSPEL REFLECTION ALL SOULS: November is the month of the Holy Souls in Purgatory. There is evidence in Scripture that there is Purgatory. In the Old Testament 2nd Maccabees 12:46 says, "it is a holy and wholesome thing to pray for the dead ..." The Jews believe in Purgatory. For example, Jews recite a prayer called ‘Mourner’s Kaddish’ for eleven months after the death of a dead person, so that they be freed from Purgatory. Purgatory is not an invention of the Catholic Churc

GOSPEL REFLECTION Our Lord says the greatest commandment is: “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.” God’s plan is for us to love Him as much as the saints do in Heaven. The saints in Heaven are completely and totally in love with God. God is their “all and everything.” Nothing else comes close, everything else is a far second. Compared to God, ‘almost’ everything else doesn’

Gospel Reflection: The Pharisees join with the Herodians to test Jesus in order to have him fall out of favour with the people by asking whether it is permissible to pay taxes to Caesar, a huge burden and symbol of Roman oppression that sparked the AD 6 revolt led by Judas the Galilean, creating a trap where affirming the tax makes Him an enemy of the Jews and denying it makes Him an enemy of the Romans. Jesus replies, “You hypocrites! Why do you try to test Me?”, comparing