This Advent, Don’t Forget That Satan Hates You, by Jared Noyes

By Jared Noyes, Crisis Magazine, Dec. 6, 2023

Jared Noyes is a husband, father, and revert to the Catholic faith residing in South Dakota.

The Incarnation serves as the supreme reason as to why Satan harbors such a tremendous hatred for us and desires and works tirelessly to drag us to the depths of Hell.

You don’t see it as much anymore, but many good Catholic Examinations of Conscience used to refer to a “fear of Hell” as an acceptable, albeit imperfect, means of contrition when confessing one’s sins. Perhaps it’s our modern desensitization to the reality of Hell and the demonic, or the failure of Church leadership to adequately teach to it, but whatever the case may be, it seems as though Hell, and the demons and damned souls that inhabit it, have increasingly become viewed as figments of our old, dusty, Catholic imagination. …..

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