"The Little Number of Those Who Are Saved" by St. Leonard of Port Maurice

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Sermon by St. Leonard of Port Maurice on "The Little Number of those who are Saved". This is a most timely and necessary sermon for everyone on Earth to hear. Sadly, as many of you know, we live in one of the most hedonistic societies in the history of the world. It is a society that believes there is no truth, and a culture which will not tolerate anyone that 'judges' some one else regardless of how immoral, disgusting or foolish a persons beliefs, words or actions might be. This is a civilization of rampant sexual immorality where laws are passed that actually promote sodomy, fornication, adultery, and infant murder. In addition to this, there is a great number of people on who Earth don't even believe in God as well as a great number who claim they do believe in a God but behave as if there is no God. Alternatively, there is another large number of people that believe they are absolutely going to heaven because they 'accepted Jesus as their personal savior' and now nothing can cast them into hell. We also have those who believe that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is maintained. These are all grave errors which have been proven false by Christ's own words, by the words of Scripture, by the dogmas of the Church, by the words of Our Lady as well as the writings of the saints. St. Leonard will explain all of this in terrifying detail. http://www.olrl.org/snt_docs/fewness.shtml for write up Saint Leonard of Port Maurice was a most holy Franciscan friar who lived at the monastery of Saint Bonaventure in Rome. He was one of the greatest missioners in the history of the Church. He used to preach to thousands in the open square of every city and town where the churches could not hold his listeners. So brilliant and holy was his eloquence that once when he gave a two weeks' mission in Rome, the Pope and College of Cardinals came to hear him. The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin, the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and the veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus were his crusades. He was in no small way responsible for the definition of the Immaculate Conception made a little more than a hundred years after his death. He also gave us the Divine Praises, which are said at the end of Benediction. But Saint Leonard's most famous work was his devotion to the Stations of the Cross. He died a most holy death in his seventy-fifth year, after twenty-four years of uninterrupted preaching. One of Saint Leonard of Port Maurice's most famous sermons was "The Little Number of Those Who Are Saved." It was the one he relied on for the conversion of great sinners. This sermon, like his other writings, was submitted to canonical examination during the process of canonization. In it he reviews the various states of life of Christians and concludes with the little number of those who are saved, in relation to the totality of men. The reader who meditates on this remarkable text will grasp the soundness of its argumentation, which has earned it the approbation of the Church. Here is the great missionary's vibrant and moving sermon.

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• Salvation