Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey,

reading the diary of St. Maria Vastina Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 74141. Today I was led by an angel to the chasms of hell.

It is a place of great torture.

How awesomely large and extensive it is.

The kinds of tortures I saw.

The first torture that constitutes hell is the loss of God.

The second is perpetual remorse of conscience.

The third is that one's condition will never change.

The fourth is the fire that will penetrate the soul without

destroying it, a terrible suffering since it is a purely spiritual fire lit by God's anger.

The fifth torture is continual darkness and a terrible suffocating smell.

And despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own.

The sixth torture is the constant company of Satan. The seventh torture is horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses, and blasphemies.

These are the tortures suffered by all the damned together, but that is not the end of the sufferings. There are special tortures destined for

particular souls. These are the torments of the senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and

indescribable sufferings related to the manner in which it has sinned. There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from another.

I would have died at the very sight of these tortures if the omnipotence of God had not supported me.

Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout all eternity in those senses which he made use of to sin.

I am writing this at the command of God so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell,

or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it is like.

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