HELL EXISTS AND WE MIGHT GO THERE!
by Father Marcel Nault

 

[Father Marcel Nault, 1927 - 1997. On Easter Sunday, March 30,1997 at 12:00 noon, Father Marcel Nault was called from this earthly life unto the God whom he had loved and. served with zealous devotion. Born on
March 3, 1927 in Montreal Quebec, his was a relatively late vocation. He was ordained to the diocesan priesthood on March 4, 1962 the day after his 35th birthday.]

The following is a speech given by Father Marcel Nault to the World Catholic Bishops Fatima Peace Conference in Fatima, Portugal in 1992. This speech made such an impact that after this Conference, several
Bishops asked Father Nault to hear their confessions.

Our Lord Jesus Christ came on earth for one reason, to save souls from Hell. Teaching the reality of Hell is the most important and unavoidable duty of the Holy Catholic Church.

One of the greatest Fathers of the Church, St. John Chrysostom, continually taught that Our Lord Jesus Christ preached more often on Hell than on Heaven.

Some people say it is better to preach on Heaven. I disagree. Preaching on Hell produces many more true and strong conversions than only preaching on Heaven. St. Benedict, the founder of the Benedictines,
while he was in Rome was told by the Holy Ghost: "You are going to lose your soul in Rome and go to Hell." He left Rome and he went into the silence and solitude outside the city to meditate on the life of Jesus
and the Holy Gospels. St Benedict ran away from those numerous occasions of sin of pagan Rome. He prayed. He made sacrifices for himself and sinners. The Holy Ghost spread the word of his holiness.

As a result, people came to see, hear and follow St Benedict's example and advice. He separated himself from occasions of sin and became holy. Holiness attracts souls. Why do you think St. Augustine changed his
life? Because of the fear of Hell! I preach often on the tragic reality of Hell. It is a Catholic Dogma priests and bishops do not preach anymore.

Pope Pius IX, who pronounced the two dogmas of Papal Infallibility and the Immaculate Conception, and who also issued his famous Syllabus condemn-ing the errors and heresies of the modem world, used to ask
preachers to preach more often on the Four Last Things, especially on Hell, as he himself did preach. He asked this because the thought of Hell makes saints.

The Saints Feared Hell

Here is something very curious, saints are afraid to go into Hell but sinners are not afraid. Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Saint cure of Ars, St. Therese of Avila, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus were all afraid to go to Hell.

Saint Simon Stock the Superior General of the Carmel, knew that his monks were afraid to go to Hell. His monks were fasting and making prayer. They were living in seclusion, cut off from the dangerous world
dominated by Satan. Still they were afraid of going to Hell.

In 1251, Our Lady of Mount Caramel appeared in Aylesford, England to Saint Simon Stock. She said, "Do not be afraid anymore, I am giving you a special vestment; all those who will die wearing this vestment will
not go to Hell." I wear my Brown Scapular under my vestments and I have another one in my pocket because I never know when people will ask me to preach on Hell or the Brown Scapular.

Mary said to the Dominican priest, Blessed Alan de 1a Roche, "I will come and save the world through My Rosary and My Scapular." One cannot specialize in everything and preach on everything; one must make a
choice. I believe that it is the will of Our Lord Jesus that I preach on Hell.

A Monsignor, my superior at that time, once told me: you preach too often on Hell and you scare people". He added: "Marcel, I have never preached on Hell, people don't like it. You scare them." In a very friendly way, the Monsignor told me in his own office: "Marcel, I have never preached on Hell and I never will preach on Hell, and look at the nice and prestigious position I hold." I kept a long silence, then I looked him in the eyes. "Monsignor," I said, "you are on the road to Hell for all eternity. Monsignor, you preach to please men, instead of preaching to please Christ and save souls from Hell. Monsignor, it is a mortal sin of omission to refuse to preach the Catholic Dogma of Hell. "

When God sent Prophets in the Old Testament it was to remind men to come  back to the truth, to come back to holiness. Jesus came, preached and sent His Apostles in the world to preach the Holy Gospels. The Serpent came and spread his poison through heresies, so the Lord Jesus sent His Beloved Mother, the Queen of Prophets: "Go on earth and destroy heresies." The Fathers of the Church have written that the Mother of God is the hammer of heresies. If you take the time to study with great attention the Message of Our Lady of Fatima, you will notice it is a most tragic and profound message repeating the teaching of the Holy Gospels.

The Lessons Taught at Fatima The summary of the Message of Fatima is, Hell exists. Hell is eternal and we will all go into Hell if we die in the state of mortal sin. "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?"

Our Lady has come and told us that we can be saved through Her two divine sacramentals of predestination, the Holy Rosary and the Brown Scapular. There is also special emphasis on Devotion to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary and Devotion of the Five First Saturdays.

At the first apparition of the Angel of Portugal at the Cabeco, in May 1916, the Angel of Portugal carne to the three children and he showed them how to adore God with two different prayers. "Oh my God, I believe,
I adore, I hope and I love Thee. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee." The Angel prayed this while prostrating himself on the ground.

The Angel of Fatima has shown the three children that in the order of prayers, first things first. One must first adore God and. then after pray to the saints. God first, creatures second. The Angel of Fatima has
shown men that we must adore and pray to God on our knees. The more a man knows God, the more he humbles himself in front of God his Creator.

The great French Bishop Bossuet said: "Man is really great when he is on his knees." Yes, Man is truly great when he is on his knees in front of his Creator and Redeemer, Jesus in the Most Holy Blessed Sacrament The Angel at Fatima came to teach the three children that our first duty, according to the First Commandment, is to adore God.

At his third apparition at the Cabeco, the Angel of Portugal came with the Chalice in his left hand and the Host in his right hand. The children wondered what was going on. The Angel miraculously left the Chalice and the Holy Host suspended in the air. The Angel prostrated himself on the ground and recited a profound Trinitarian prayer of adoration. "Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I adore Thee profoundly and I offer Thee the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrilege and indifference by which He is offended, and by the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.

God wants us to adore Him on our knees. Do all of us kneel in prayer and adoration of Jesus in the Most Holy Eucharist? We should. When the three wise men came to Bethlehem and entered the house, they prostrated them-selves in front of baby Jesus to adore Him on their knees. We have the example from Scripture and from the Angel at Fatima that God wants us to adore Him on our knees.

The Reinforcement of Catholic Dogma

One year later, on May 13, 1917, the children saw a young girl appear to them. It was Our Lady's first apparition. Lucy asked, "Where do you come from?" She replied, "I come from heaven." The Catholic dogma of heaven.

The children asked, "Will we go into heaven?" She replied "Yes, you will." They then asked, "Our two girl friends, are they in heaven?" Mary replied, "one yes". The children asked, "Where is the other girl? Is she
in Heaven?" Mary replied, "She is in Purgatory until the end of the world." This girl was around 18 years old. A second dogma, Purgatory exists and will end at the end of this world. The Mother of God cannot lie.

The Angel of Fatima taught the three children how to adore God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. This is a reinforcement of the dogma of the Most Holy Trinity, the greatest of them all without which Christianity cannot stand. We must adore the three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity.

A Vision of Hell

On Friday, July 13, 1917 Our Lady appeared at Fatima and talked to the three seers. Our Lady never smiled. How could She smile, for it was on this day that She was to show the children the vision of Hell?

She said "Pray, pray very much because many souls go into Hell." Our Lady opened Her hands and suddenly the three children saw a hole in the ground. That hole, said Lucy, was like a sea of fire in which we saw the
souls in human forms, men and women, burning, shouting, and crying in despair. Lucy said demons looked like ugly and unknown animals. The children were so terrified that Lucy screamed. She was so afraid that
she thought she would die. Mary said to the children: "You have seen Hell where sinners go when they do not repent." Another Roman Catholic dogma, Hell.

Hell is Eternal

Our Lady said "Each time you say the Rosary, My children, say after each decade, '0 my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fire of Hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need." Mary came to Fatima as a Prophet of the Most High to save souls from Hell. The patron of all pastors, St Jean Marie Vianney used to preach that the greatest act of charity towards your neighbor is to save their souls from Hell. The second act of charity according to St. Jean Vianney is to deliver souls from Purgatory. One day in his little church, (where, to this day, his body lies incorrupt) a man possessed by a demon approached St. Jean Vianney and said: "I hate you, I hate you because you stole from my hand eighty-five thousand souls." Your Eminence, Excellencies, Priests, when we will come to be judged by Jesus, Jesus will ask us one question. "I made you a priest, a bishop, a cardinal, a pope, how many souls have you saved from Hell?" St. Francis de Sales, according to statistics, has converted and probably saved more than seventy-five thousand heretics. How many souls have you saved? When you read the Fathers of the Church, the Doctors of the Church and the saints, you are struck by one thing; they all have preached the holy Gospels of Jesus and the FOUR LAST THINGS: Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell. They all have preached the Catholic dogma of Hell because when we meditate on the abode of the damned, we don't want to go to Hell. As a result, we avoid the occasions of sin and take all the means necessary to become saints and therefore avoid Hell and attain Heaven.

I don't want to criticize Bishops, but I must confess this truth. I have thirty years of priesthood. It is sad to say that I have never seen nor heard a bishop, even my bishop or any other bishop, preach the Roman
Catholic dogma of Hell. I suppose in your countries and elsewhere they do, but in America, Hell is not preached.

One day in a cathedral I said to a bishop, "Your Excellency you make a nice meditation of the Holy Rosary every night for the radio. This is beautiful. But I must ask, why don't you have your meditation a little shorter and insert after each decade: '0 my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fire of Hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy Mercy'. Why do you refuse to say that little prayer alter each decade, as requested by Our Lady of Fatima on July 13, 1917, after She had shown Hell to the three seers?" The Bishop said to me: "Well, people don't like us to preach on Hell, the word Hell makes them scared."

We are not there to preach to please the crowd but to save souls from Hell, to prevent them from going into Hell for all eternity. This may not hold true for all Bishops, but I have often heard Bishops recite the Rosary and omit that merciful prayer to save souls from Hell. I believe that little prayer of Our Lady of Fatima given to the children on July 13, 1917 is more powerful and more pleasing to God than any kind of meditation even given by a holy bishop.

You have received your own missions from God, and I believe that Jesus and Our Lady want me to preach on Hell as my mission. So I preach often on Hell. There are many revelations that we can read in the life of
privileged souls. Some souls in Hell have been ordered by God to speak in order to help us in our faith. It is a mortal sin of omission to refuse to preach the Catholic Dogma of Hell. Those souls in Hell said: "We could accept to be in Hell a thousand years. We could accept to be in Hell a million years, if we knew that one day, we would leave Hell." My friends, we must meditate, not only on the fire of Hell, not only on the privation of seeing God, but we must also meditate on the eternity of Hell. Meditate seriously in front of the tabernacle on the Roman Catholic dogma of Hell. Dear Bishops, you must preach the whole Gospel of Jesus, including the tragic reality of eternal Hell.

Heretical Concept of God's Mercy

A priest at a charismatic conference told a crowd of about three thousand people and one hundred priests that "God is love, God is mercy and you will see His infinite Mercy at the end of the world, when Jesus will deliver all souls from Hell, even demons." That priest continues to preach and his Bishop doesn't take away his faculties for preaching heresies.

"Go in the eternal fire", said Jesus. Eternal fire, not temporary fire. With our limited human intelligence we make a little philosophic proposition: "God is love, God is Our Father. How can a father, for Heaven's sake, take little Peter and throw him in a burning furnace? It is impossible. It is an insult to God, Who is love." How many times have you heard that?

The truth, however, is that Hell exists. Hell is eternal. And we will all go into Hell if we die in the state of mortal sin. I can go into Hell. You can go into Hell. If any of us die in mortal sin, we will be in Hell for all eternity, burning, weeping, and crying in despair. Not for a million years, but for billions and billions and billions of years and beyond, for all eternity. In our lifetime, who has never made one mortal sin? Only one mortal sin not repented before you die is enough for Jesus to throw us in Hell.

One of the greatest Fathers of the Church, Patron of all Catholic Preachers, St. John Chrysostom said: "Few bishops are saved and many priests are Damned."

When we were coming from Lisbon to Fatima by bus, I preached on the bus to the lay people, priests and bishops present. I implored them, "Please when you come to Fatima, why not make an excellent holy general
confes-sion. Maybe ten years ago, maybe fifty years ago, maybe you didn't have the courage to confess that sin because you were ashamed. Please, make a holy and complete confession in Fatima before you leave.
There are many priests in Fatima that you will never see until you reach Heaven." I preach to Bishops like I preach to everyone because Bishops also have a soul to save. And if Bishops are truly humble they will also
accept the truth even from an ordinary simple priest. Let us not leave Fatima without making a Holy General Confession.

A Great Act of Charity
 

Your Excellencies, Jesus made us priests, The Lord Jesus has chosen us among millions of men to make us priests. We have been made priests for one reason, to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to the Almighty
Father, to pray the breviary every day and to preach the Gospels of Jesus to save souls from Hell. Nobody is sure to go to Heaven unless they have received a private revelation from God like the Good Thief on the cross or the three seers of Fatima. Why not take all the insurance that Heaven has given us, the Rosary (devotion to My Rosary is a sure sign of predestination), the Brown Scapular and the wonderful Sacrament of penance.

Preach, my dear Bishops, like the Fathers of the Church. The first duty of a bishop is to preach, not only to administer a diocese. The Church needs to see and hear bishops preaching like the Fathers of the Church.

If only one Bishop among you would have come to Fatima then return to his diocese and on certain occasions preach "The Four Last Things" with the full Message of Fatima, what a great act of Charity it would be.
With the help of the Holy Ghost, say to your faithful: "Listen, my brothers in Christ, I am your Bishop, I am here to save your soul from Hell. Please listen, accept and meditate on my teaching today. You too my dear priests in my diocese, imitate your Bishop, and preach on Hell with the authority that Jesus has given you. Preach at least one entire sermon on Hell once a year." You would be doing the greatest act of charity of your priesthood, of your episcopate.

As I mentioned earlier, in my thirty years as a priest, I have never heard a Bishop preach on Hell. When I want a sermon on Hell, I have to read Saint John Chrysostom, the Fathers of the Church, the Doctors of the Church and canonized preachers. Dear Bishops, please, preach on Hell like Jesus, Our Lady of Fatima, the Fathers of the Church and the Doctors of the Church and you will save many souls. Who saves one soul,
saves his own soul. Preaching on Hell is a great act of charity because those that hear you will believe. They will change their lives and make holy confessions.

The Garment of Grace
 

People sometimes ask me: "Why is it, Father, that the Brown Scapular isn't preached anymore? In the past, we received the Brown Scapular at First Communion, but today there are no more blessings and imposition of the Brown Scapular. Is the Brown Scapular true today as in the past?" Yes, the Brown Scapular is honored to this day; this truth has not changed. On Saturday, October 13, 1917 during the Miracle of the Sun in
Fatima, Mary was holding the Brown Scapular. Sister Lucy said: "The Rosary and the Brown Scapular are inseparable."

Why is it then priests never preach on the Brown Scapular? How can priests preach on the Brown Scapular if they deliberately refuse to preach on Hell? If you never preach on Hell, people won't believe in Hell. What is the use of wearing the Brown Scapular?

Jesus said: "If you have faith, you will move mountains." If you have faith, you will convert souls with the grace of God.

If you preach on Hell with faith, people will believe in Hell. Saint Paul said to his disciples: "Preach with conviction." To talk or read a homily in a Church is not preaching. Preaching is intended to move the will; preaching is intended to move men, to change their lives, to save their souls from Hell.

The Defection of Clergy
 

There are four major reasons why 75,000 priests have left the priesthood:
1) because they have neglected to pray every day.
2) because they did not avoid the occasions of sin and have forgotten that prudence is the science of saints.
3) because they did not have the humility and courage to make holy and complete confessions. Jesus said: "Without Me you can do nothing."
4) because they lived in mortal sin and continued to celebrate thus. If a priest is in the state of mortal sin and celebrates Mass, it is a sacrilegious mass for him. When he receives Communion, it is another sacrilegious communion for him.

How can a priest in the state of mortal sin preach under the inspiration and the strength of the Holy Ghost? How can he preach if he's filled with demons? Priests, go and make holy confessions and you will become
excellent preachers. The Holy Ghost will speak in you and through you and you will save thousand of souls from Hell.

One day, the Cure of Ars received a visit from a young priest from a nearby parish. That young priest was a little curious to meet Cure of Ars. After lunch the Cure of Ars said: "Will you, please, hear my confession?" The young priest nearly fell off his chair when asked to hear the confession of the already very holy priest St. Jean Vianney. Saints go to Confession! And those that go to Confession become Saints.

Finally, Our Lady of Fatima said: "pray, pray very much and make many acrifices for many souls go into Hell because there is no one to pray and make sacrifices." Let us pray often and every day: "0 my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy Mercy. "