Why Should God Let You Into Heaven? — Homily — Fr. Fernando Camou
"I think if you were to ask somebody when you die and you get to heaven, you're going to be confronted with the question Jesus or Saint Peter's going to ask you,
"Why should we let you into heaven?"
And I think most people would start listing good things they've done or bad things that they restrain themselves from, but there's only one legitimate answer.
If when you're asked why should you be allowed into heaven, there's only one correct answer:
"The blood of Jesus. I can't merit heaven. I did nothing to give myself life. I did nothing to give myself the strengths and qualities and opportunities that I've been given. I did nothing.
I'm on a rock that's spinning 10s of 1000s of miles per hour in an empty void around a thing called the sun. I'm in control of nothing."
But if we live with Jesus, united to His mission, and allow that blood to fill us and guide us, it changes everything.
It might even help you see yourself the way God sees you, and if you could see yourself the way God sees you, it would change everything."
Fr. Fernando Camou