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'Stealing' Heaven is probably not a good strategy.
One of the splendid aspects of the Faith that Catholics embrace warmly is the deathbed conversion.
It has deep roots in Catholicism — Satan getting "cheated," so to speak, out of a soul at the last minute, Our Blessed Lord's parable about the workers who show up and labor for only the last hour but still receive a full day's wage. Deathbed conversions speak to the continual mercy of God, straight up until a person's last breath and, even then, in Purgatory.
For those who appear to us as if a deathbed conversion is their only hope, we should be praying, absolutely. We have various examples of deathbed conversions to the Faith, beautiful stories of such last-minute, come-from-behind victories. There is Dismas, the good thief, as well as John Wayne.
And there is another one. Allow us to share it with you.
My father told me this many years ago, so a detail here or there might be off, but you get the idea.
There was once a brother and sister who were raised Catholic. The sister went off to be a nun and was sent to work with a very poor tribe in Africa. She had a hard life. The brother, whose name was John, fell away from the Faith and lived an extremely sinful life, actually coming to despise the Faith.
This caused no end of sorrow for his sister, who offered all her sufferings up for his reversion. Eventually, she received word that her brother had died, and then she inquired if he had received last rites. She was told he had spit at the priest, yelled at him to leave the room, rolled his head over toward the wall and died.
His sister was spiritually crippled by the news and mourned to Our Lord how such a thing could happen after her life of sacrifice for his salvation.
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> > **'Stealing' Heaven is probably not a good strategy.**
> > One of the splendid aspects of the Faith that Catholics embrace warmly is the deathbed conversion.
> > It has deep roots in Catholicism — Satan getting "cheated," so to speak, out of a soul at the last minute, Our Blessed Lord's parable about the workers who show up and labor for only the last hour but still receive a full day's wage. Deathbed conversions speak to the continual mercy of God, straight up until a person's last breath and, even then, in Purgatory.
> > For those who appear to us as if a deathbed conversion is their only hope, we should be praying, absolutely. We have various examples of deathbed conversions to the Faith, beautiful stories of such last-minute, come-from-behind victories. There is Dismas, the good thief, as well as John Wayne.
> > And there is another one. Allow us to share it with you.
> > My father told me this many years ago, so a detail here or there might be off, but you get the idea.
> > There was once a brother and sister who were raised Catholic. The sister went off to be a nun and was sent to work with a very poor tribe in Africa. She had a hard life. The brother, whose name was John, fell away from the Faith and lived an extremely sinful life, actually coming to despise the Faith.
> > This caused no end of sorrow for his sister, who offered all her sufferings up for his reversion. Eventually, she received word that her brother had died, and then she inquired if he had received last rites. She was told he had spit at the priest, yelled at him to leave the room, rolled his head over toward the wall and died.
> > His sister was spiritually crippled by the news and mourned to Our Lord how such a thing could happen after her life of sacrifice for his salvation.
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