The Different Tortures in Hell

Short Summary: Sister Faustina Kowalska recorded a vision of hell, detailing various tortures endured by the damned, and emphasized her experience as a divine command to warn others about its existence.

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Location: Krakow, Poland

Year: 1936

Prayer: God, Save me and my loved ones from the path to hell. Come to us, turn us toward you. We know each time we sin, we consciously decide to turn away from you in trade for a selfish interest - provide us with the grace we need to resist these temptations and habits. Restore us to love. Help me, my family, my spiritual family, and those I hold dear. Guide us to Christ, so that we may spend eternity in your presence. Amen.

Verse: Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour. Resist him, steadfast in your faith, for you know that your brothers and sisters in all the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering. -1 Pet 5:8-9

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Sister Faustina Kowalska, one of the most trusted mystics of the past century, recorded a detailed vision of hell (Diary entry 741). The account is included here: "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 conditional 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. I, Sister Faustina, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence. I have received a command from God to leave it in writing. The devils were full of hatred for me, but they had to obey me at the command of God. What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: that most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell. When I came to, I could hardly recover from the fright. How terribly souls suffer there! Consequently, I pray even more fervently for the conversion of sinners. I incessantly plead God’s mercy upon them. O my Jesus, I would rather be in agony until the end of the world, amidst the greatest sufferings, then offend You by the least sin."

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