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'I am capable of opening up hell for all to see its punishments.

However, that would not be just, since people would then serve me out of fear, when they should be serving me out of love.

For only a person who loves shall enter the kingdom of heaven.

Moreover, I would be doing injury to the devil, if I took his lawfully purchased thralls from him without good works.

I would also do injury to the angel in heaven, if the spirit of an unclean person were put on the same level as one who is clean and fervently in love.

Accordingly, no one will enter heaven, except for those who have been tried like gold in the fire of purgatory or who have proved themselves over time in good works on earth in such away that there is no stain in them left to be purged away.

If you do not know to whom my words ought to be sent, I will tell you.

The one who wants to gain merit through good works in order to come to the kingdom of heaven or who already has merited it by good works in the past is worthy of receiving my words. My words are to be disclosed to such as these and to enter into them.

Those who have a taste for my words and humbly await the inscription of their names in the book of life keep my words.

Those who have no taste for them consider them first and then reject and vomit them out immediately.'

Our Lord, to St. Bridget of Sweden

Everytime I read something like this I'm reminded again of God's great love for us!! :crucifix:

Love requires love!

St Padre Pio once said, "No one enters heaven who has not been perfected in Love."