Summary: Sermon titled "Hell: Go There Now So You Can Avoid It Later" given on Sunday November 17, 2013. Size: 8.2 MB; duration: 24:01. Saint Philip teaches us that "He who does not go down into hell while he is alive, runs a great risk of going there after he is dead." In order to avoid going to hell in the next life, we must go there now in meditation, study, and even by voluntarily embracing various trials, penances and mortifications. These are just a couple of ways we "go to hell" in this life to avoid going there in the next. If we go down there now, we will discover a hole in the wall that has been reserved for us, one in which we will be folded upon ourselves and jammed into. There is no community, no love in that place: we will live only to curse and hate and desire others be damned like us. "O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell and lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy."
