The Church celebrates feast days that highlight plainly the realities of salvation in Christ, which could only be foreshadowed by the feasts of pre-Christian Israel in hidden, shadowy figures. Christ has come! Christ is here! Jesus is the Lamb of God. He is the Bread from Heaven. He has begun the harvest of souls. He is the Judge. He is our High Priest and atonement. He tabernacles with us yet today. Celebrate like a believer, not as one still waiting for the Messiah! #COG

#Hell includes, but is not merely, the absence of perfect happiness in God. It is a place of despair and hopelessness, reserved for those who reject God's love even in his last breath. But some people (many?) genuinely don't want the beatific vision in the next life. They insist they'd be happy enough without it. That's a good reason God also provides, for good measure, the fires of hell -- external flames that cause forever-pain in both soul and body. And even then you're getting off easier than you deserve, considering you're offending your literal Creator, who is infinitely good. While you're still drawing breath, choose wisely.