[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus warns, “Enter through the narrow gate;
for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and
those who enter through it are many.”A question that people have been
asking from time immemorial is this: “Will only a few people be saved?”
Heaven, hell, salvation, damnation—who will be in and who will be out? We
have remained, understandably enough, fascinated with these issues and
questions for a long time. But the official answer of the Church is that we
don’t know. We are clearly warned about the real possibility of damnation.
We do indeed know that there are many in heaven, for the saints are
formally declared to be so. But there are no anti-saints in the Church;
there is no one whom the Church has formally declared to be a denizen of
hell.Therefore, without succumbing for a moment to anything-goes
presumption, we are permitted to hope that all people might be saved.
Indeed, St. Paul writes to Timothy: “God wants all people to be saved and
to come to the knowledge of the truth.” So pray, hope, and strive to enter
through the narrow gate.*
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