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An excerpt from "The Vortex—The Faithful Departed."

Prayers for those in Hell have no effect. There is no hope for them. Now, the Church doesn't say which individual souls are in Hell, which specific humans are damned, but She absolutely acknowledges that there are humans there. She acknowledges that in how She prays and what She says.

The damned are now forgotten to us, like they never existed. That's from our perspective. If we ever encounter them again, it will be the sorriest day of our existence, for it will mean that we too have been damned. We should never mourn the damned for they are the enemies of God. We could and should mourn that they chose what they chose which resulted in their damnation, the result of their free-will choices — but even there, caution is advised.

Their freely chosen damnation is proof of the justice of God. In God's justice, He gives a soul what the soul wants. He essentially ratifies what the soul has already chosen. He gave humans the ability to choose Him or not Him. When a person chooses not Him, then God is merely fulfilling what the person has chosen as well as His own creative action.

The damned are forever forgotten, not prayed for, unremembered, unknown. The deepest longing of the human soul is to be known in the most complete way of being known it can be — loved for itself, known, understood, embraced, caressed, thought of continually. But this desire remains eternally frustrated in Hell, where the damned are never known, not even by each other or their new and everlasting master, Satan. The just, the elect, the Church Triumphant, the Church Suffering and the Church Militant have no longer any regard for them because they have chosen to separate themselves from the Church forever.

But flip this around for a moment and imagine for a terrifying moment being among the damned. Consider this despite the Church of Nice telling you it isn't a serious threat. It is most certainly — more certain than the sun rising tomorrow — a serious threat.

Imagine being shut off for all eternity from any compassion, any caring, any concern. Far from no one to ever love you, you would never again know anyone having any concern for you, other than demons torturing you. You would be forever cut off from all care, sympathy; kind words would be replaced by the air being filled with curses and insufferable screams of terror, with your own screams being joined to the others, screams which will never be heard.

But as insufferable as they would be, you would have to suffer them, would have to come to realize, over and over again in a stunning brutal moment of clarity, that this is your lot forever, never ending. And just as you have realized that horror, then you realize it again, and again and again, throwing yourself from one agony to another. And in this nightmare you are forgotten, utterly and completely, and you are trapped forever. And the worm that Our Blessed Lord refers to when He speaks of the worm that dieth not in the fires of Gehenna is the realization that you have done this to yourself.

Watch the panel discuss the agonies of Hell in "The Download—The Remorse of the Damned."

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