Here, from Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalen, is a thought based on one of those politically incorrect Scripture verses which are no longer in mainstream circulation in the Church in NZ (the Catholic Church, that is, and maybe the Anglican likewise but my other Protestant friends don't have a quarrel with them).
Salvation is a gift, and whoever does not accept it excludes himself
from it by his own act; this is the meaning of eternal damnation, foreshadowed
in the punishment inflicted on those who have disdained the wedding invitation
(in the parable).
... The Church welcomes anyone who wishes to enter ... but at
the end of time God himself will make the choice, and those who are taken by
surprise ‘without a wedding garment’ will be cast ‘into the outer darkness;
these men will weep and gnash their teeth.'
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