"The Fewness of the Saved" - by St. Leonard of Port Maurice

[@williamgibson2760]

Thank you for taking the time and effort to read this and have the text scroll as you read this sermon. I pray God that more of us who have listened and read along will be among the Saved vs the Damned. St. Leonard, pray for us poor sinners!

[@angelalemos9811]

WOW is all I can say if only the priests of today preached in such a fashion, we could hopefully educate many people who would then be saved. I was inspired to come here from a comment on another youtube video and I am so glad I did and took the time to listen to this beautiful and eye opening sermon. Thanks for providing it.

[@PTrent]

Amen. Unfortunately, they’ve all succumbed to modernity. Comfort. No longer tending to their flock, willing to lay down their lives for their sheep. In austere living. Fasting with the confessor. Doing penance, risk getting “canceled”, beat, martyred. Nope. They have fallen to Satan’s temptation. Post Vatican 2 ambiguity, it’s now a “Protestant” church, ecumenical, preaching universalism. All go to heaven. All religions lead to God. No more evangelizing others to the one holy Catholic and apostolic church. Listening, going where they are, and allowing them to stay where they are, under the guise of “inclusion”, “equity”. They are forbidden to preach on hell. That “the faithful can’t handle the topic”. Dragging many millions to hell with them. No respect to the Eucharist, handling God in anyone’s hands, while not even kneeling. Confession booths empty. 30% of Catholics no longer believe in the real presence. 😢

[@josephhuffnaglesr.8129]

I love that sermon by St Leonard beautiful ,.God bless you.

[@katpleiadean7525]

Thank you for this and for being a real voice, and not an AI generated soulless voice.

[@barbie6391]

Thank you

[@chulotito]

Right next to my town there’s a town a town called San Leonardo I had always asked my self who could he be ? Well after 4 decades of questions lead to this sermon and beats of pieces information that came to me before and this ! Alas nice knowing you Saint Leonard !

[@Catholicity-uw2yb]

POPE BENEDICT XVI: “People should not fear God, thinking he is always ready to punish, but rather they should love him because he is always reading to forgive. God is not a relentless sovereign who condemns the guilty, but a loving father whom we must love not out of fear of punishment, but because of his goodness. The Lord is a God who is just, but always ready to reveal himself as merciful and compassionate.”

[@Catholicity-uw2yb]

ST. POPE JOHN PAUL II: “The love of Christ is more powerful than sin and death. St. Paul explains that Christ came to forgive sin and that his love is greater than any sin, stronger than all my personal sins or those of anyone else. This is the faith of the Church. This is the Good News of God’s love that the Church proclaims throughout history and that I proclaim to you today: God loves you with an everlasting love. He loves you in Christ Jesus, his Son.”

[@vascularpete]

You share in his enormous heresy when you call him Pope or Saint. He was the living embodiment of sin.

[@guzvier]

The intro hurt my ears

[@apollo_45s21]

Anyone else black pilled by this? My mind keeps coming back to this sermon like dude we're all fucked. I feel like I don't have a chance. If I'm lucky I'll burn for a 1000 years in purgatory.

[@richardwatterstan]

Turn away from sin. Don't be black pilled. I know it's hard. But you have to hold on bro. Slowly remove its grip on you. Peel it off. You are already doing more than most. Never stop praying. Had a hard day today but I came back to the truth. Struggle to the end. I will pray a rosary for you! God bless you.

[@apollo_45s21]

@@richardwatterstan right on very true. I'm not even close to a saint but I'll keep trying. Thank you for the rosary I'll pray one for you in return.

[@michaelcreighton5116]

You chose hell. Repent and you will be saved.

[@lastunctives2095]

Only 3 from the ark and 16 from the Isrealites . Guess Jesu's doctrine of hell is a tough one . Nobody mentions Adam or Eve being up there ?

[@wjm4268]

There is a difference between Heaven and Paradise. Maybe St Leonard hasent taken onto account. Un baptised babies go to Paradise/Limbo where there is natural happiness. Protestants who have never eaten his body or drunk his blood, but are still in friendship with God. How can they go to heaven? Of course there are many Holy and righteous Protestants. So the only place is Limbo or Paradise. St John Bosco in one of his Forty dreams also talks of a place that isn’t Heaven, but a paradise instead. How do we express the term Hell in modern English and what does it mean? It seems that anything outside of heaven, face to face with God is Hell. I’ve been listening to a lot of Near Death Experiences lately where people say they went to Heaven and met our Lord. But as far as Heaven is concerned, no eye has seen of ear has heard. So I think they made a mistake and didn’t go to Heaven, but to a Limbo/paradise type place instead. If our Lord decides that you are good enough for Heaven, then you may undergo Purgatory for a time, then enter Heaven. But if for some other reason, and as the ones mentioned above you do not meet this requirement then perhaps Paradise is where you will spend all of your eternity. Lets say a native American who lived in the 9th Century who could never have know Christ and who lived a holy life. What would be his fate? Not heaven and Not hell, but Paradise. So when St Leonard says 0nly 3 out of 33 THOUSAND go to heaven and the rest are Damned is he really saying many of these went to Paradise? Just Saying..... Its just a theory. I hope im correct. What do you think???????????????????????????

[@MsCardio1]

there is no Limbo Totally scapped by pontifical decree. All babies under age of reason are welcomed into Heaven. You are incorrect in stating there is Paradise AND Heaven Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church

[@wjm4268]

@@MsCardio1 No you are wrong. There was no Pontifical Decree. B16 was expressing his opinion. Where did the soul of Moses go when he died? paradise. His soul would have gone to heaven after Jesus ascened into Hell..... Paradise and taken it to heaven.

[@michaelcreighton5116]

Unbaptized babies go to hell. That's why abortuarys exist. Read council of Florence.

[@Catholicity-uw2yb]

ST. POPE JOHN PAUL II: “Can God, who loves man so much, permit the man who rejects him to be condemned to eternal torment? The silence of the church is, therefore, the only appropriate position for Christian faith. Even when Jesus says of Judas, the traitor, “It would be better for that man if he had never been born” (Mt. 26:24) his words do not allude for certain to eternal damnation.” ST. POPE JOHN PAUL II: “Eternal damnation remains a possibility, but we are not granted, without special divine revelation, the knowledge of whether or which human beings are effectively involved in it. The thought of hell and even less the improper use of biblical images must not create anxiety or despair... The concept of hellfire, the fiery furnace and the unquenchable fire of Gehenna need to be interpreted as symbolic language... The risen Jesus has conquered Satan, giving us the Spirit of God who makes us cry, ‘Abba, Father!’ (Rm 8:15; Gal 5:6).”

[@marietav8334]

MANY MANY MANY PEOPLE WILL BE SAVED FOR IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURE. "After this I looked, and there before me was a GREAT MULTITUDE THAT NO ONE COULD COUNT, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands." - Rev 7:9 (If the saved would only be a few, we could easily count them.) "Taking him (Abraham) outside, He (God) said, "LOOK UP THE SKY AND COUNT THE STARS IF YOU CAN, JUST SO WILL YOUR DESCENDANTS BE." He (God) told him. - Gen. 15:5 (It is said that the total number of stars is GREATER than the grains of sand on earth put together!) It is an affirmation from the Word of God Itself that the saved are not few but COUNTLESS, INCALCULABLE, NUMBERLESS BECAUSE THE STARS WHICH SYMBOLIZE THE ELECT ARE UNNUMBERED. GLORY TO GOD ALONE! PRAISE GOD!

[@flyingbanana9712]

Jesus himself said the path is narrow

[@flyingbanana9712]

“If there were few we could easily count them” let’s say a hundred and 7 billion people have ever existed. A few would be 1 %. That’s still 1 billion people. It’s still uncountable. What convinced me that Catholicsm is the true religion is the fruits of the saints. Visions of Jesus and mystical experiences. Read them for yourself and decide yourself. KZbin sensus fidelium the way of divine love

[@lilyw.719]

Most of the people who have been saved were probably saved long ago. Not many are likely to be saved in the end times, when the world is being wiped out precisely because it's become so corrupt again that God needs to punish the world even worse than in the great flood.

[@bridgefin]

St. Leonard is speaking of only those who have lived to be adults. He is not speaking of the billions who died in the womb through miscarriage or abortion or who died during birth or before they reached the age of reason. There is your great multitude. For the rest of us it is 5 in 100,000. And if you think you are in that tiny number then you are likely damned by your pride.

[@dakabaka4912]

Yes. Like it says in the sermon, there will be countless millions saved by Christ. As many as the stars in heaven, but proportion is what we're talking about. Many more billions will be damned for eternity. Both are great in multitude. Its a warning to everyone that being saved by God requires total devotion and submission to his will, everywhere in his life. Jesus said to *strive* through the narrow gate, not drag your feet. It wasn't a suggestion. (Edit) Grammar check lol