A young
female parishioner came to a church to ask a priest:
– Why do
people often say that sins cause pain in one’s soul? I don’t feel pain, even
though I sin a lot…
– Satan
is deceitful, – the priest responded, – He sedates people with worldly
pleasures so that they couldn’t see the damage they do to themselves. However,
there will be a day when the sedative effect wears off, and the pain of one’s
soul will be so strong that it would be impossible to tolerate it any longer.
Even death won’t soothe it. The greatest worldly suffering will pale in
comparison with hellfire.
We must
shelter our souls from sin to protect our future from pain.
Translated by the Catalog of Good Deeds
CONVERSATION