According to Jesus, the key attribute that will determine everyone’s fate is that overlooked attribute called ‘charity’(Brotherly & Sisterly Divine Love). It doesn’t matter whether you are a Catholic, protestant, Muslim, heathen…etc.
So, once the end comes, expect to see a virtuous loving heathen being admitted to Heaven while a hypocritical/hateful christian is cast out.
Jesus Says:
A virtuous heathen, only because he lived according to choice virtue, convinced that his religion was good, will have Heaven at the end.
I will now reveal a great truth to you. Remember it. Hand it down to your
successors. Do not always wait for the Holy Spirit to clarify the truth after years
or centuries of darkness. Listen. You may say: “Then, what justice is there in
belonging to the holy religion, if at the end of the world we shall be treated
exactly as the Gentiles?” I reply to you: the same justice which there is and it is
true justice − for those who, although they belong to the holy religion, will not
be beatified, because they they did not lead a holy life. A virtuous heathen, only
because he lived according to choice virtue, convinced that his religion was
good, will have Heaven at the end. When? At the end of the world, when of the
four abodes of the dead, two only will remain: that is, Paradise and Hell.
Because Justice, at that time, will only be able to keep and give the two eternal
kingdoms to those, who from the tree of free will, chose good fruits or wanted
wicked ones. But what a long expectation before a virtuous heathen achieves
that reward!… Do You not think so? And that expectation, particularly from the
moment when Redemption will have taken place with all its consequent
wonders and the Gospel will have been preached all over the world, will be the
purgation of the souls which lived with justice in other religions, but were not
able to enter the true Faith, after they became acquainted with its existence and
the proof of its reality. Their abode will be Limbo for centuries and centuries,
until the end of the world. The believers in the true God, who were not
heroically holy, will have a long Purgatory, which may last until the end of the
world for some of them. But after expiating and waiting, the good, irrespective
of their provenance, will all sit at the right hand of God; the wicked, whichever
their provenance may be, at the left hand and then in the dreadful Hell, while the
Saviour will enter the eternal Kingdom with all the good souls.»
7 « Lord, forgive me if I do not understand. What You say is very difficult… at
least for me… You always say that You are the Saviour and that You will
redeem those who believe in You. So those who do not believe, either because
they did not know You, as they lived before You, or because − the world is so
large! − they had no news of You, how can they be saved?» asks Bartholomew.
« I told you: because of their just lives, of their good deeds, and through their
faith which they believe is the true one.»
« But they did not have recourse to the Saviour… »
« But the Saviour will suffer also for them. Do you not consider, Bartholomew,
what ample value My merits of Man-God will have?»
« My Lord, they will always be inferior to those of God, to those You have
always had.»
« Your reply is and is not correct. The merits of God are infinite, you say.
Everything is infinite in God. But God does not have any merits in the sense that
He has not merited. He has attributes, virtues of His own. He is He Who is:
Perfect, Infinite, Almighty. But to merit, it is necessary to do something, and
with effort, superior to our nature. For instance, to eat is not a merit. But to eat
frugally can become a merit, if we make real sacrifices, in order to give to the
poor what we save. It is no merit to be silent. But it becomes a merit if we are
quiet instead of retorting an insult. And so forth. Now, you know that God does
not need to make any effort, because He is Perfect, Infinite. But the Man-God
can make an effort by humiliating His infinite divine Nature within human
limitations, by defeating human nature, which is not absent or metaphorical, but
real, in Him, with all its senses and feelings, with its possibility of suffering and
dying, with its free will. No one loves death, particularly when it is painful,
untimely and undeserved. No one loves it. And yet, every man must die. So man
ought to look at death with the same calm with which he sees every living being
come to an end. Well, I force my Humanity to love death. Not only. But I chose
life to be able to have death. For the sake of Mankind. Thus, in my condition of
Man-God I gain those merits which I could not have gained if I had remained
God. And through them, which are infinite, because of the manner in which I
gain them, because of the divine Nature joined to the human nature, because of
the virtues of Charity and Obedience, with which I put Myself in condition to
deserve them, because of Fortitude, Justice, Temperance, Prudence, because of
all the virtues which I put in My heart to make it acceptable to God, My Father,
I will have infinite power, not only as God, but also as Man, Who sacrifices
Himself for the sake of everybody, that is, Who reaches the extreme limit of
Charity. It is sacrifice which gives merit. The greater the sacrifice, the greater
the merit. A complete merit for a complete sacrifice. Perfect merit for a perfect
sacrifice. And it may be used according to the holy will of the victim, to whom
the Father says: “Let it be as you wish!”, because the victim has loved both God
and his neighbour measurelessly. I tell you. The poorest man can be the richest
and benefit countless brothers, if he can love to the extent of sacrifice. I tell you:
even if you did not have a crumb of bread, a glass of water, a ragged garment,
you can always help. How? By praying and suffering for your brothers. Help
whom? Everybody. In which way? In a thousand holy ways, because if you can
love, you will be able to act, teach, forgive, administer as God does, and to
redeem, as the Man-God redeems.»
8 « O Lord, grant us that charity!» says John with a sigh.
« God gives you it, because He gives Himself to you. But you must receive it
and practise it more and more perfectly. No event is to be separated from
charity, as far as you are concerned. Both with regard to material and to spiritual
events. Everything is to be done with charity and for Charity. Sanctify your
actions, your days, put salt in your prayers, and light in your actions. Light,
flavour, sanctification are Charity. Without it rites are of no value, prayers are
vain, offerings false. I solemnly tell you that the smile with which a poor man
greets you as brothers is of greater value than a sack of money which one may
throw at your feet only to be noticed. Love, and God will always be with you.»
« Teach us how to love thus, Lord.»
« I have taught you for two years. Do what you see Me do and you will be in
Charity and Charity will be in you, and on you there will be the seal, the chrism,
the crown, which will really make you known as the ministers of God-Charity.
Let us stop now in this shady place. The grass is thick and long and the trees
mitigate the heat. We will proceed in the evening… »