To Raquel and Father, yes that is indeed true. A single act of faith and repentance could have been powerful enough to grant his soul salvation from the eternal fires of hell. Since he shot himself in the chest, meaning his death was not as instant as a gun shot to the head--he could have , hypothetically speaking, asked God for his forgiveness as he was dying.
and hypothetically speaking, he must have asked god for forgiveness because he must have mulled long and hard over his final decision. he even said "i'm sorry" to his own sons.
My point is that suicide is in itself a moral violation , and a direct grave offense to the Life God has given us all stewardship of.
so are all sins as we know them.
If we sin, if we have premarital sex, if we commit sins, and if these sins are so great that drives us to make penance through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, then the sins are absolved. Totally and Absolutely.
However, when an individual commits suicide, he or she denies the possiblity of repentance through the sacrament of reconciliation.
both premarital sex and suicide are sins, on that we are agreed. why distinguish between the two? because in the latter one ends his life? what happens if in a premarital sex the man died of a heart attack and had no time to repent?
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I will pray that God was merciful to Mr. Reyes. One can only hope for the saving grace of God--who searches all souls and sees truths behind lies.
Mr. Reyes should not have despaired. I can tell he was tormented severely by the devil , who hounded him to shoot himself. To escape the troubles of his life--a short term solution to such a short term problem.
The issue here is the long term. Eternal Life and the state of Grace.
the issue here is that we cannot render judgments on other people especially when it comes to his relationship with his god. more so is it not for us to consign them to the eternal fires of hell.
I pray that God was merciful to him.
pray too that you will be just as merciful. god in all his mercy takes care of his own.
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