At the Moment of Death, Jesus Will Ask Only One Question

There comes a moment that no one can avoid, the instant when the body ceases to breathe and the soul detaches itself from the earth. It is a passage that all humanity must face, the mysterious threshold between time and eternity. According to Mother Speranza of Jesus, in that moment something occurs that no human mind could ever truly comprehend. Christ does not appear as a judge seated on a throne of severity, but as a presence of ineffable tenderness. He does not condemn, nor does He enumerate the faults of a lifetime. He simply draws near to the soul and asks a question — one single question upon which eternity depends.

It is not a question of doctrine or merit, nor a request for explanations. It is a question so simple that it cuts through every justification, every fear, every shadow. Jesus, she said, looks into the soul and asks: “Do you still want Me?”That is the question that, according to Mother Speranza, decides everything. Within it lies the mystery of divine mercy and the drama of human freedom.

The Woman Who Heard the Voice of Christ

Mother Speranza, born in Spain in 1893, lived a life woven with prayer, sacrifice, and mystical experience. From her youth she felt the call to dedicate herself completely to God, and yet her path was marked by long periods of inner suffering — not the suffering of despair, but of spiritual participation in the wounds of Christ.

In 1930, she began to receive interior locutions, intimate communications of the soul, in which Jesus entrusted her with a mission of extraordinary importance: to reveal to the world the true face of His love. “My daughter,” He told her, “I want everyone to know that I am Love, not Justice. I did not come to condemn, but to save.”

These words, so far from the image of a distant and punitive deity, set her life on a new course. And Jesus added a revelation that would change forever her understanding of salvation: “No one goes to hell because they have sinned too much, but because they have rejected My love until their last breath.”

For Mother Speranza, this sentence became the key to reading the entire Gospel: the ultimate tragedy is not sin, but the refusal to be loved.

The Final Question

Disturbed and amazed, she asked the Lord, “Even those who have blasphemed against You, even those who have lived far from You until the end?”Jesus answered her with infinite patience: “Yes, even them. I seek them until the last moment. And when the soul leaves the body, I draw near and ask only this: ‘Do you still want Me?’”

In that supreme encounter, Christ does not ask how many times one has fallen, how many prayers one has forgotten, or how much good one has done. He asks only whether, at the end of everything, there still remains within the soul a desire for Him, a trace of love, however faint. And if that love still exists — even as a trembling whisper — then mercy triumphs.

Mother Speranza repeated the words that Jesus had entrusted to her: “When the soul says yes, even faintly, My Heart embraces it, and I carry it with Me into My home.”

The judgment of God, she understood, is not a tribunal of terror but the ultimate revelation of love — the last attempt of the Savior to rescue the soul from the abyss of despair.

The Battle for the Soul

But that moment, said Mother Speranza, is also the most dramatic. For it is then that the devil makes his last and fiercest assault. He shows the soul its own misery, its shame, and its failures. He whispers that forgiveness is impossible, that the soul is already condemned. He feeds the poison of despair.

Jesus explained this to her clearly: “Satan works so that the soul will despair, so that it will think I no longer want it. But I am beside it, even if it cannot see Me. I ask it only this: ‘Do you still want Me?’”

In that final instant, free will remains intact. The soul can still say yes or no; it can choose love or reject it forever. Time ceases, but freedom does not. And the answer given in that moment becomes eternal.

Mother Speranza therefore insisted that no one should ever judge another’s death. “We cannot know what happens between Jesus and a soul in its last moment,” she said. “How many times has a hidden yes, an act of sorrow, opened Heaven for someone who seemed lost?”

The Power of a Prayer

Jesus revealed to her that many souls are saved in that very last instant, thanks to a single prayer or tear offered by someone on earth. “Many souls,” He told her, “are saved at the last moment thanks to a prayer, an offering, a tear shed for them by someone who loves them.”

For this reason, Mother Speranza tirelessly exhorted the faithful to pray for the dying. A prayer at the hour of death, she said, can become the hand that lifts a soul toward Heaven, helping it to utter that decisive yes.

She often recalled that every Hail Mary said for the dying “is like a hand helping them to say yes.” In the economy of grace, no act of love is ever lost.

The Purifying Light of Purgatory

In her mystical experiences, Mother Speranza was also shown Purgatory, which she did not describe as a place of fire and punishment, but as a realm of purification illuminated by love. “The souls in Purgatory suffer,” she said, “but they love. They know they are saved, and their only pain is not yet being able to see God.”

Jesus told her: “Every soul that passes through Purgatory is a soul saved by My Heart. I visit it, I console it, and I wait for its purification to be complete so that I may embrace it.” He added a moving image: “When one of these souls enters Heaven, all of Paradise rejoices, and My Cross shines with new light.”

In those words lies an image of divine joy: every soul redeemed is a new light added to eternity.

Heaven, Hell, and the Freedom to Love

Mother Speranza described Heaven as a sea of peace, light, and song — a world where evil is forgotten and only gratitude remains. The saints who dwell there are not only those who never fell, but also those who were greatly forgiven and who now love intensely because they have experienced mercy. “In Heaven,” she wrote, “there are souls who, in life, were weak and sinful, but who entrusted themselves to Me. Now they are stars of My love.”

She did not deny the existence of hell, but she described it not as a place where God casts sinners, but as a choice freely made by those who persist in rejecting love. “Hell exists,” she said, “but it is not for those who sin out of weakness. It is for those who refuse love, even in their final instant.”

According to the vision she received, the gates of hell are not closed by God but by the souls within. “They are the ones who shut themselves off from the light,” Jesus told her. “I remain outside, knocking, but they will not open.”

Her words echo with sorrow: “God sends no one to hell. It is the souls themselves who refuse to be loved, who choose eternal solitude.”

A Glimpse of the Final Mercy

Mother Speranza once recounted a vision she received during prayer. She saw a brilliant light and, within it, the soul of a man who was dying far away on earth. Jesus said: “Look, My daughter. This man has lived far from Me, but his mother prays for him. Now I am calling him. I ask him: ‘Do you still want Me?’”

She saw the man’s soul, like a trembling flame, bow its head and silently answer yes. In that moment, the light expanded like a sunrise, and Jesus took the soul into His arms. “See, My daughter,” He told her, “this is what I do for every person.”

It was the vision of a mercy that does not tire, that pursues even those who have forgotten it.

The Real Enemy: Despair

For Mother Speranza, the greatest enemy of salvation was not sin but despair. “The devil does not fear the sins of men as much as their despair,” she wrote, “because despair separates them from mercy.”

Her entire message could be condensed into a single conviction: that Jesus is not a judge who condemns, but a Father who waits. “Even if you had committed every sin in the world,” she said, “do not doubt: He still loves you.”

This was her cry to a world afraid of divine judgment and slow to believe in mercy: the true face of God is the face of a Father who fights until the last instant for His children.

The Hour of Truth

There will come a moment for each of us when time will fall silent and only truth will remain. We will not be able to hide behind excuses or words. All that will matter will be our final answer to that question whispered from eternity: “Do you still want Me?”

If within us there remains even a spark of love, Christ will see it, and that single spark will be enough to ignite eternity. But if we turn away, it will not be He who rejects us; it will be we who close the door.

For this reason, Mother Speranza prayed every day for the dying, convinced that every small prayer can help a soul to pronounce that saving yes. And when she was asked if she feared death, she would smile and reply, “No, because I know that Jesus will ask me the same question He asks everyone: ‘Do you still want Me?’ And I will answer, ‘Yes, Lord, I want You with all my heart.’”

Love That Never Dies

In a world that often speaks only of judgment, fear, and guilt, the message of Mother Speranza shines like a forgotten gospel: God does not cease to love, even when we cease to believe in Him. His mercy waits beyond the horizon of our failures, ready to transform the final instant into the beginning of eternal life.

Her testimony is not merely mystical; it is profoundly human. It tells us that love is greater than sin, that mercy is stronger than despair, and that death itself is not the end but the threshold of a greater embrace.

At the final hour, when everything fades, only one question will remain — the question that decides eternity:

“Do you still want Me?”

If your heart, even through tears, can answer yes, then you already know what it means to be saved.

Because Love never dies.And even in the darkest hour, God continues to ask:“Do you still want Me?”