Saint Maximilian Kolbe

 

This man is a great Hero of mine. I can not think of a greater example, in our modern times, of GOD'S love for HIS Children.  I can only pray and hope for such a great Victory as Kolbe's life. R.Anding III

Maximilian Kolbe's life was strongly influenced by a childhood vision of the Virgin Mary that he later described:

"That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both."

He was born Raymund Kolbe on 8 January 1894 in Zduńska Wola, in the Kingdom of Poland, which was a part of the Russian Empire, the second son of Julius Kolbe and Maria Dabrowska. His father was an ethnic German and his mother was Polish. He had four brothers, Francis, Joseph, Walenty (who lived a year) and Andrew (who lived four years).

Kolbe's family moved to Pabianice, where his parents initially worked as basket weavers. Later, his mother worked as a midwife (often donating her services), and operated a shop in part of their rented house, where she sold groceries and household goods. Julius Kolbe worked at the Krushe and Ender Mill and also worked on a parcel of rented land where he grew vegetables. In 1914, Julius joined Józef Piłsudski's Polish Legions and was captured by the Russians and hanged for fighting for the independence of a partitioned Poland.
Kolbe's life was strongly influenced by a childhood vision of the Virgin Mary that he later described:

That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both.^[7]

Franciscan friar

In 1907, Kolbe and his elder brother Francis decided to join the Conventual Franciscans. They illegally crossed the border between Russia and Austria-Hungary and enrolled at the Conventual Franciscan minor seminary in Lwów. In 1910, Kolbe was allowed to enter the novitiate, where he was given the religious name Maximilian. He professed his first vows in 1911, and final vows in 1914, in Rome, adopting the additional name of Maria, to show his devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Kolbe would later sing hymns to the Virgin Mary in the concentration camp.

Kolbe was sent to Kraków in 1912, and later that same year to the house of studies of the Order in Rome, where he studied philosophy, theology, mathematics and physics. He earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1915 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, and a doctorate in theology in 1919 at the Pontifical University of St. Bonaventure. During his time as a student, he witnessed vehement demonstrations against Popes St. Pius X and Benedict XV in Rome during an anniversary celebration by the Freemasons. According to Kolbe,

They placed the black standard of the "Giordano Brunisti" under the windows of the Vatican. On this standard the archangel, St. Michael, was depicted lying under the feet of the triumphant Lucifer. At the same time, countless pamphlets were distributed to the people in which the Holy Father (i.e., the Pope) was attacked shamefully.

This event inspired Kolbe to organize the Militia Immaculata, or Army of Mary, to work for conversion of sinners and enemies of the Catholic Church, specifically the Freemasons, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary. So serious was Kolbe about this goal that he added to the Miraculous Medal prayer:

"Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. And for all those who do not have recourse to thee; especially the Masons and all those recommended to thee."

The Immaculata friars utilized the most modern printing and administrative techniques in publishing catechetical and devotional tracts, a daily newspaper with a circulation of 230,000 and a monthly magazine with a circulation of over one million. Kolbe also used radio to spread his Catholic faith and to speak out against the atrocities of the Nazi regime. He is the only canonized saint to have held an amateur radio license, with the call sign SP3RN.

Maximilian Kolbe, on German postage stamp, marked Auschwitz

 

 

In 1918, Kolbe was ordained a priest. In 1919, he returned to the newly independent Poland, where he was very active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, a seminary, a radio station, and several other organizations and publications. Kolbe founded the monthly periodical Rycerz Niepokalanej in 1922, and in 1927 founded a Conventual Franciscan monastery at Niepokalanow, which became a major publishing centre. Kolbe left Poland for Japan in 1930, spending six years there. The monastery at Niepokalanow began in his absence to publish the daily newspaper, Mały Dziennik, which became Poland's top-seller.


Kolbe was accused of anti-Semitism based on the content of these newspapers, which allegedly included claims of a Zionist plot for world domination. Researchers seeking to rebut accusations of anti-Semitism often point to the fact that Kolbe sheltered Jewish refugees during the war, and, according to one person who worked close to him: "When Jews came to me asking for a piece of bread, I asked Father Maximilian if I could give it to them in good conscience, and he answered me, 'Yes, it is necessary to do this because all men are our brothers.'"


Between 1930 and 1936, Kolbe undertook a series of missions to Japan, where he founded a monastery at the outskirts of Nagasaki, a Japanese paper, and a seminary. The monastery he founded remains prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in Japan. Kolbe decided to build the monastery on a mountainside that, according to Shinto beliefs, was not the side best suited to be in harmony with nature. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Kolbe's monastery was saved because the other side of the mountain took the main force of the blast.

Death at Auschwitz

Stained glass image of Kolbe as a concentration camp prisoner, at the Conventual Franciscan church of Szombathely, Hungary

 

 

After the outbreak of World War II, which started with the invasion of his nation by Nazi Germany, Kolbe provided shelter to refugees from Greater Poland, including 2,000 Jews whom he hid from Nazi persecution in his friary in Niepokalanów. On 17 February 1941, he was arrested by the German Gestapo and imprisoned in the Pawiak prison. On 28 May, he was transferred to Auschwitz as prisoner #16670.



At the end of July 1941, three prisoners disappeared from the camp, prompting SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch, the deputy camp commander, to pick 10 men to be starved to death in an underground bunker in order to deter further escape attempts. When one of the selected men, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out, "My wife! My children!", Kolbe volunteered to take his place.



In his prison cell, Kolbe celebrated Mass each day and sang hymns with the prisoners. He led the other condemned men in song and prayer and encouraged them by telling them they would soon be with Mary in Heaven. Each time the guards checked on him, he was standing or kneeling in the middle of the cell and looking calmly at those who entered. After two weeks of dehydration and starvation, only Kolbe remained alive. The guards wanted the bunker emptied and they gave Kolbe a lethal injection of carbolic acid. Some who were present at the injection say that he raised his left arm and calmly waited for the injection.His remains were cremated on 15 August, the feast day of the Assumption of Mary.

Suicide leads to an Eternity in Outer Darkness

“For me there was no blaze of radiance, no arms waiting to usher me into the Divine Presence,” says Angie Fenimore, a woman from Seattle who, as a young troubled mother, deliberately took a drug overdose.

Of her near-death episode:

“There was only blackness, as though I were suspended in outer space, unbroken by a single glimmering star.

“Where was I? I was immersed in darkness. My eyes seemed to adjust, and I could see clearly even though there was no light. I was aware that I was standing on what felt like solid ground, but nothing was there. The darkness continued in all directions and seemed to have no end, but it wasn’t just blackness, it was an endless void, an absence of light. I knew that it had its own life and purpose. It was completely enveloping."

As it happens, Angie lends us insight into the lower reaches of purgatory. Muc of it she recounts in a gripping book called Beyond the Darkness.

Many are those who even confuse that level -- because it is so difficult -- with hell.

There are many levels of purgatory.

Darkness is apparently one of them.

“Death was quite an adventure," said Angie in recounting her death on January 8, 1991. "I swung my head around to explore the thick blackness and saw, to my right, standing shoulder to shoulder, a handful of others. They were teenagers. ‘Oh, we must be the suicides.’

“Then came a whoosh! Suddenly, as if we had been waiting for a kind of sorting process to take place, I was sucked further into the darkness by an unseen and undefined power, leaving the teenagers behind. I was flying upright, moving at warp speed, like a comet shooting out of nowhere. I sensed that I was going faster than any man-made aircraft could fly, but without the physical effects of flight or the pull of gravity. Nor did I have any sense of the temperature, of the coldness you’d expect to find in deep space, or any way to judge time. I was probably flying for a fraction of a second.”

Suddenly she found herself on the edge of a shadowy plane, suspended again in darkness and shrouded in a black mist that swirled around her feet, that formed a barrier up to her hips, that held her prisoner.

She was in what Christ called the outer darkness. “The place was charged with a crackling energy that sparked me into hyper-alertness, a state of hair-trigger sensitivity,” she wrote (in a book called Beyond the Darkness). “The fog-like mist had mass – it seemed to be formed of molecules of intense darkness – and it could be handled and shaped. It had life, this darkness, some kind of intelligence that was purely negative, even evil. I knew that I was in a state of hell, but this was not the typical fire and brimstone hell that I had learned about as a young child. The word purgatory rose, whispered, into my mind."

That had come after she had gone through a process of reviewing her whole life with the Lord and even in this state – lowest purgatory, or one of the lowest levels of that in-between place – was the consolation that at least she was not in hell, which is for eternity. She was returned to life after Jesus came for her. 

"Men and women of all ages, but no children, were standing or squatting or wandering about on the realm. Some were mumbling to themselves. The darkness emanated from deep within and radiated from them in an aura I could feel. They were completely self-absorbed, every one of them too caught up in his or her own misery to engage in any mental or emotional exchange. They had the ability to connect with one another, but they were incapacitated by the darkness.

"I gradually became aware of the sounds of a kaleidoscopic flurry of voices, and I realized that in this realm, thoughts were the mode of communication. Around me I could hear the buzz of thoughts, as if I were in a crowded movie theater with lights down low, picking up the sounds of hushed exchanges.

"Sitting next to me was a man who appeared to be about sixty years old. This man's eyes were totally without comprehension. Pathetically squatting on the ground, draped in filthy white robes, he wasn't radiating anything, not even self-pity. I felt that he had absorbed everything there was to know here and had chosen to stop thinking. He was completely drained, just waiting. I knew that his soul had been rotting here forever. In this dark prison a day might as well be a thousand days or a thousand years.

"I was sure that this man, like the middle-aged woman, had killed himself. His clothing suggested that he might have walked the Earth during Jesus Christ's earthly ministry. I wondered if he was Judas Iscariot, who had betrayed the Savior and then hung himself. I felt that I should be embarrassed that I was thinking these things in his presence, where he could hear me.

"As my mind reached for more information, I felt tremendous disappointment. I could feel and completely know about everything around me just by posing a question in my mind or by looking in any direction. The possibilities for learning were endless, but I had no books, no television, no love, no privacy, no sleep, no friends, no light, no growth, no happiness, and no relief  - no knowledge to gain and no way to use it.

"But worse was my growing sense of complete aloneness. Even hearing the brunt of someone's anger, however unpleasant, is a form of tangible connection. But in this empty world, where no connections could be made, the solitude was terrifying.

"Then I heard a voice of awesome power, not loud but crashing over me like a booming wave of sound; a voice that encompassed such ferocious anger that with one word it could destroy the universe, and that also encompassed such potent and unwavering love that, like the sun, it could coax life from the Earth. I cowered at its force and at its excruciating words: 

 'Is this what you really want?'

"The great voice emanated from a pinpoint of light that swelled with each thunderous word until it hung like a radiant sun just beyond the black wall of mist that formed my prison. Though far more brilliant that the sun, the light soothed my eyes with its deep and pure white luminescence. I sensed that the light could not (or perhaps would not - I wasn't sure) cross the barrier into the darkness. And I knew with complete certainty that I was in the Presence of God."

A Living Saint

98 year old Dobri Dobrev, a man who lost most of his hearing in the second world war, has traveled 25 kilometers every day for decades from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of Sofia - a trip he makes by foot where he spends the day begging for money. 

What is a shock to everyone who finds out Dobri donates every penny he collects.  He estimates that figure is over 40,000 euros or (60,000US) towards the restoration of decaying Bulgarian monasteries and churches and most importantly the utility bills of orphanages. 

 

Dobri lives entirely off his monthly state pension of 80 euro (110US).

By those who know him, Dobri is called a Saint, an ascetic hermit, an Angel, a Divine stranger, a Holy beggar. To look at Dobri one has not the faintest idea of the true holiness of this selfless man. This year Dobri turns 98 years old.  Yet, despite his advanced age he still perseveres  to live out his oath of kindness towards all of humanity. 

Desmond Tutu is Risking Eternal HELL FIRE

Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu made headlines by saying that he’d rather go to hell than be in heaven with a God who is Homophobic 

South Africa’s iconic retired archbishop, Desmond Tutu, said on Friday that if he had his pick, he’d go to hell before heading to a heaven that condemned homosexuality as sin.

“I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this,” he said, by way of denouncing any and all religions that discriminate against gays. I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to a gay friendly Hell then a homophobic Heaven.”

Desmond Tutu went on to say  "We must regret that Jesus died too young, before his views had had the chance to “evolve” enough to fit modern sensibilities. Had Jesus lived longer he might have become a more enlightened savior. He made the remarks during the United Nations‘ launch of its gay-rights campaign in Cape Town.

I have read a little information on Desmond Tutu but I can not fathom any man having read the BIBLE and having 'supposedly' served Almighty GOD through HIS Son JESUS CHRIST saying such a blasphemous quote. 


I can tell you that no man can imagine or comprehend the horror of hell.  Archbishop Desmond Tutu is not only spiritually blind but he is blaspheming the Divine Son of GOD by saying that JESUS died before HE could mature enough to see that homosexuality is actually a good thing.   How could any man who EVER read the Bible say something so vile and condescending?  I am amazed that Desmond Tutu does not understand the evil he is spewing.  No only is he condemning himself to an eternity of Hellfire, but he is leading hundreds of thousands if not millions straight to hell with him.

Can the world be so blind?

 Is the spiritual light so dim in the world that Christian Archbishops are calling GOD homophobic?  If Tutu had any inkling of that which awaits him in hell he would rip his tongue out and beg for Divine mercy and grace.  He actually said if GOD accepted him into Heaven but refused to accept homosexuality that Tutu would deny GOD his presence and happily leap into the pit of hell.  I am just flabbergasted that anyone could say something so incredibly dangerous as to tempt Almighty GOD.  Right now, I wouldn't be anywhere near Desmond Tutu and I would warn those around him that they are in eternal danger. 

" Fear not the men who can kill the body, but fear the one who can throw you body and Soul into everlasting fire..." Matt. 10:28 NKJ


Hell Fire never ever ends. the pain never ever stops.  Just when you think it cant get any worse a Pandora's box of horrors opens up and all new torments spew from the burning lake of fire.  Worms that burrow thought you flesh and bones, fire that burns but never consumes, the stench of rotting meat, screams which drill into your skull from every direction, darkness so thick that it chokes the throat and blinds the eyes.  This is what Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu would choose over an eternity of bliss in Heaven with GOD our Father and Creator.  
 

Did you know that there are people kneeling in hell right now praying harder then any Saint on earth.  There are people begging Almighty GOD for just one more second of life just so that they could repent and pray for HIS eternal forgiveness. 

During an Exorcism a Catholic priest addressed the demonically possessed woman a question.  Addressing the demon hiding out within the woman the Priest asked the demon what would you give to escape eternal judgement in HELL Fire? After hours of screaming, thrashing, biting and vomiting, the woman's body went limp and the demon, fighting not to be cast out of the woman, went silent.  A minute went by then two, the room became so quiet that the Priest could hear his own heartbeat.  A voice, different then the one that had been blaspheming the Lord's name only minutes ago, soft and apologetic, wavering at first but getting stronger as it went on said...

"I would happily be torn limb from limb and have all of my flesh ripped from my bones piece by piece by worms and maggots. Then, have that flesh thrown into molten fire till it was nothing more then ash and smoke.  Then, repeat that process over and over ten thousand times an hour all day and every night till Judgement day.  I would suffer all that and more just to be in HIS presence for 5 seconds to be able to ask for HIS forgiveness." 

Then, a ear piercing, high pitched, shriek torn from the woman's throat, all the light bulbs in the room exploded sending shards of glass every where. 

"But, I cant! I am lost forever! There is no hope in HELL, there is no end to the eternity that I have to face all alone in the darkness with nothing but my regrets, tortured  by the knowledge that I did this to myself...Oh That I was NEVER born!" 

I am simply astonished by the blind arrogance of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  

Is the world really that Spiritually blind?  

The Saints of the Carmelite Order

Saint  (noun)

1.any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.

2.a person of great holiness, virtue, or benevolence.

The Carmelite order has a long list of the exceptional people who lead Holy and devout lives. I have highlighted the most Famous of these Saints, which have one thing in common.  They have all taken the name Teresa.  

1.  St. Teresa of Avila

"Oh my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value."1

Mystic, reformer and Doctor of the Church, St. Teresa of Avila is undoubtedly one of the greatest mystics the Church has ever known, and the reader will see how immense of an influence she was upon all the daughters of Carmel who came after her.  Her reforms of the Carmelite Order alongside St. John of the Cross ensured that the order was free of all corruption and worldly taint that had crept in.  Along with her most famous work, Interior Castle, she is also wrote Way of Perfection and a rich autobiography. 

2.  St. Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

"Speaking to Father Ildefonse one day, she tried to express to him something of the significance those words God is love now held for her, but she became almost incoherent in her emotion. 'Just as the soul in the state of grace (which is charity) is in God, God is in her. Just as the soul lives the life of God, so does God in a certain way live IN her. And so it is that between them there is but a single life, a single love ... God alone! The difference is that God has all by essence, whereas the creature has it only by participation and grace.' And, adds Father Ildefonse, 'Note that these words came from a simple child who had never studied and knew no theology apart from what her instinct taught her.'"2 

3.  Bl. Teresa Maria of the Cross

"To suffer, to suffer, always suffer. Do what you want with me, it’s enough that I save souls for you."3

Much like St. Teresa of Avila, who was her central inspiration, Bl. Teresa Maria of the Cross met with much opposition in her life.  Beginning as a member of a third order of Carmelites, she became a nun in the Carmelite order only two years later.  Her life was spent in service to the poor, establishing schools, and taking care of children in need.  She is today remembered as the foundress of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa of Florence (named after St. Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, incidentally), an order known for its special charism of teaching and caring for children.

4.  St. Therese of Lisieux

"'I cry like a young swallow' then, a cry which tells You everything, and You remember in Your infinite mercy that 'Thou didst not come to call the just but sinners.'"4

St. Therese needs no introduction - by now, she is probably the most popular and well-known saint next to St. Francis of Assisi.  Surely, it must be a miracle itself that such an unknown Carmelite nun from France who lived such a sheltered life, both at home and in the cloister of Carmel, became so well-known and venerated 

5.  St. Teresa of the Andes

"I live for God alone.  My sole concern is to know Him that I may love Him more.  I have begun the life of heaven here on earth, a life invented and thought of by God through all eternity; a life of love alone and of ceaseless praise.  If you could see but for an instant what’s in the soul of this Carmelite postulant, you’d understand the happiness of living always near the tabernacle.  Alone with Him in His aloneness, I am there at the chapel grates or in my humble cell.  There is nothing between Him and His creature now.  I hear His divine voice always.  I gaze on always and contemplate His infinite beauty.  I feel always the beating of my God’s Heart, begging me for love because He knows that love contains everything; sacrifice and souls."5

Not long, in fact only three years after St. Therese had passed on to heavenly glory to begin her real work from Paradise, the child who would become known as one of South America's most famous saints was born.  In some ways, her life seems like a continuation of St. Therese of Lisieux's - indeed, it was the Little Flower's writings that influenced the young Juanita to join the Carmel at Los Andes.  However, it seems that St. Teresa of the Andes' spiritual life was not so much subject to what is commonly known as the "dark night of the soul", as St. Therese of Lisieux's was.  Instead, she was favored with an intense and constant companionship of our Lord, living a life of complete and total mystical ascent towards God.  To hear her speak of her prayer life is to catch a glimpse of the highest stages of the mystical life.  Like her namesake, she died incredibly young, at the age of only 19 years old, a pure and living flame of love. 

6.  Blessed Teresa of the Child Jesus and St. John of the Cross

"Viva Christo Rey!"6

A Carmelite nun who lived in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, she was one of three nuns in her convent who were martyred by Communists.  When asked to say "Long live Communism!" in exchange for her freedom, she responded with the same words of Bl. Miguel Pro before he too was martyred in Mexico - "Long live Christ the King!".  She was promptly shot and stabbed by the communist mob.

7.  Blessed Maria Teresa of St. Joseph

"I was to pray for the conversion of sinners, and to move the mercy of God for the freedom of Holy Church.  From that morning on my heart was filled with a new hunger and thirst, not only for God’s pleasure or for perfection, but with a burning hunger and thirst to win souls for the Divine Heart.  That crucifix is stamped on my memory, and it not only keeps my zeal for the salvation of souls alive, it increases its fire and creates in me the desire to arrive soon at the throne of God, where my longing for souls may be satisfied."7

Bl. Maria Teresa was not a cradle Catholic, but a convert to the Church from Lutheranism.  After converting to the Catholic faith, she founded the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus, and dedicated her life to the service of the poor, of immigrants and to educating children, much in the same manner as Bl. Teresa Maria of the Cross had done earlier.  Her life is marked by intense prayer, and she communicated by correspondence with many concerning the spiritual life.

8.  St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

"God is there in these moments of rest and can give us in a single instant exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course, under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace. And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him. Then you will be able to rest in Him — really rest — and start the next day as a new life."8

St. Teresa Benedicta is generally more popularly known as St. Edith Stein.  Raised in the faith of Judaism, she later became an atheist, before finally converting to the Catholic Church. She was an incredibly adept philosopher in her younger days, able to navigate the world of phenomenology and existentialism with ease - she was well-acquainted with Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, two leading lights of these two schools of thought.  The reading of the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila changed her life completely - before long, she converted to the Catholic faith.  As soon as the Nazi regime began to gain power, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was forced to resign her position at the Institute of Pedagogy in Munster.  Soon after this, she became a Carmelite nun, and finished her work on St. Thomas Aquinas and Husserl called Finite and Eternal Being.  To be sure, her philosophical works are not the stuff of everyday reading - but they should most certainly not be ignored, especially when so much attention is paid nowadays to other theologians of dubious merit.

Her life ended soon enough in martyrdom - arrested for being a Jewish convert, along with many others, she was sent to die in the nightmarish death camp of Auschwitz.  She was an inspiration to those around her to her last breath, and died completely resigned to the will of God.

9.  Ven. Maria Teresa Quevedo

"How beautiful, O Mary, how beautiful you are."

Arguably the most Marian in spirit of the Teresas on this list, Ven. "Teresita" (as she was nicknamed) was a headstrong child, prone to outbursts, and incredibly impatient.  But after her first Holy Communion, a change came over Ven. Teresita that would make itself progressively known throughout her life.  By all accounts a picture-perfect image of the popular high-school girl, she entered the convent at an extremely young age, just like St. Therese of Lisieux and St. Teresa of the Andes before her.  Her spirituality was steeped in Marian devotion, and her decisiveness to become a saint was unstoppable.  She had barely entered Carmel before she succumbed to a slow and painful death due to tubercular meningitis, just as she predicted she would, just before the Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was pronounced.

 A Saint is simply someone who loves our FATHER who art in Heaven more then this world.  All Grace is Divinely inspiried and freely given. You need not be a Nun or a Priest to be a Saint.  All you need is to love Almighty GOD with all of your heart mind and Soul and JESUS CHRIST Himself will prepare the road and create the trials which will allow you to one day stand in Heaven and be an eternal Saint.  

   
I would like to give thanks to Jason who made this post possible
http://ascentofcarmel.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-nine-teresas-of-carmel.html 

Yoga is demon worship

Woman experiences real glimpse of hell while practicing high level yoga.The deeper she got into yoga the more she hated Christians.

Then, when she was leaving to go and surrender her life to the yogi in India she began to see demonic manifestations.  She was doing yoga 3-5 hours a day for years.  Her testimony is one of someone who knows the truth behind that yoga is demon worship. 

God spoke these words...

“I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me, and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.  Exodus 1-7 NKJ

US Marine Shawn Weed died and Went to HELL

US Marine Shawn Weed was dead for 8 minutes and in Hell. At around (45:00min) as
he is being "handled" by a giant demon, all hope left him. Also, he
speaks about this "lukewarmness" (49:00) that pretty much described
him that he had never done anything REALLY that "bad" prior to his
untimely death. He said a LOT of "good" people are there.

Shawn Weed is a Marine vet who has an incredible testimony about HELL.   Shawn was in the Marines and was clowning around with a bunch of friends when tragedy struck.  One of Shawn’s friends in the Marines had convinced Shawn to pretend he was hanging by a noose for a picture.  What Shawn didn’t realize was that another friend had snuck up from behind and suddenly tightened the noose as a joke!   Shawn quickly passed out and found himself outside of his body while his friends thought he was only pretending to be dead!   For over 8 minutes Shawn’s body was clinically dead and that’s when his incredible journey to hell took place.

Shawn is a good ole southern boy from Louisiana and his story will make you laugh and cry too because he’s a great storyteller with an amazing level of detail that I really enjoyed.  He’s the kind of guy you would like to get to know!  In fact, I went to college in Louisiana with a guy very much like Shawn.

Shawn put out this amazing video because he doesn’t care if anybody ridicules him.  He knows his trip to hell and back were absolutely true and it changed his life forever.  This world we live on is really just a test to see where you go when you die.  Just because you say you’re a Christian or even if you believe in Jesus Christ does not get you to heaven.  Average people who live in the world will not go to heaven.  As Shawn states, there are a lot of good people in hell that rejected living a truly Christian life for God. 

I hope that it will impact you as it did me.  If so, please share it with as many others as possible so others may know the truth!  Start a chain reaction of Love and Concern for our Brothers and Sisters who NEED JESUS CHRIST!  Interceded for the lost and pray for the Holy Spirit to save more souls!