October 14, Friday of 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Daily readings: Ephesians 1:11-14; Gospel: Luke 12:1-7
Curiously, right after speaking of God’s power to cast someone to hell, Jesus speaks of God’s amazing care for humanity. This invites a brief reflection on hell.
The concept of hell and its eternal damnation does not exist in the Old Testament. Hell is a New Testament reality, made possible only when one definitively rejects God’s mercy offered in and through Christ.
Whereas hell is a reality, we have no idea if anyone is definitively cast into it. It is significant that the Church firmly declares, through beatification, that some souls are in heaven: yet she has never officially declared that someone damned in hell, not even the worst criminal in the world.
But there is one thing the Church knows and proclaims: that one person has surely gone to hell – Christ himself. Christ’s descent into hell, which we proclaim in the Creed, is the very testimony of the depth of the reach of God’s love and care for each of us.
Radio Veritas Asia (RVA), a media platform of the Catholic Church, aims to share Christ. RVA started in 1969 as a continental Catholic radio station to serve Asian countries in their respective local language, thus earning the tag “the Voice of Asian Christianity.” Responding to the emerging context, RVA embraced media platforms to connect with the global Asian audience via its 21 language websites and various social media platforms.
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