Four Last Things: The Judgment: What Every Catholic Must Know~ Fr. Ripperger

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blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus mother of divine grace name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost I Madeline the

Church's teaching on the final judgments in addition to adding what the Saints can actually tell us about it provides a very rich rich reflection and it helps

us to see ourselves in light of who we are in relationship to God as his creatures and ultimately those who will be judged standing before him the church

teaches that there are in fact two final judgments the first is the particular judgment of the individual once he dies he stands before God and in God and acts of judgment then there is the gentle

judgment in which everybody gathers together at the end of the world and Christ levies our judgments and each person has to go through the judgment again in the particular judgment

immediately after death the particular judgment takes place and in which a divine sentence of judgment the eternal fate of the deceased person is

determined and decided in this particular case what happens is that God communicates to the soul his understood as God's understanding of the soul so

it's not just God telling you a few things for there he actually communicates to you a knowledge so to actually see then the course of your life why everything that you did and whether it was sinful to degree was

sinful but it was good whether it to the degree that it was good and things of this sort so it's an intellectual communication contained in that is also then he

communicates to us what is deserving of that life that you have Lea led and that is whether you go to heaven or hell the confessional is sometimes called the

tribunal of God's justice sometimes it is referred to as the tree of unil of God's mercy it is the tribunal God's justice because one must go before God's representative that is the priest

and accused oneself of the transgressions and the violations of God's law the judgment the judge stands in judgment of your sorrow to determine

whether you're truly sorry for your sins if you are not sorry for your sins and the priest does not administer God's mercy to you in the form of absolution but if you are sorry that is if the priest judges that you meet the

requirements the priest forgives your sins you are justified therefore in the eyes of God through the absolution and you no longer held accountable for the sins that you've committed that is for

the actual sins even though you are held accountable for their effects which we'll see a little bit later when you die you will stand before the tribunal of God at your protec at your particular

judgment only this time it will no longer be the representative of God to whom you will plead your case but to God Himself you will stand before Almighty

the Almighty God and account for every single sin that you have ever committed it will no longer be you accusing yourself of the sins that is like this

is in confession rather it will be truth itself that is God revealing to you who and what you are every sin every

imperfection every transgression of the law of God regardless of how slight will be shown to you in a clarity that you never enjoyed in this life even about

the sins that you knew you committed here you'll stand before the celestial tribunal with only one thing leading your case in the end in the end because

the Saints and stuff will plead your case but in the end there's only one thing that will save you and that is sanctifying grace when God reveals to

you your sins he will show you your state of soul so not only will you see the actions that you perform but you'll see yourself it's a form of self knowledge that is unattainable in this

life and so the judgment what God shows to you cannot be denied you cannot really defend yourself because you see what is being held against you is true

and so you cannot really argue with God rather the judge will tell you if you were really sorry for your sins in this line you will no longer make acts of

contrition because once you die your eternal fate is sealed you will no longer make acts of contrition but you're contrite 'no switch you had in this life will release you from the

punishment due to your sentence provided you die in the state of grace when you stand in front of God helpless only those whom you help will plead your cause

that is those in heaven who you might have helped and also the saints and angels to whom your devotion was attached but of course the demons will also be there accusing you not even

their pleadings that is the pleadings of the Saints and the angels will benefit you if you die in the state of mortal sin if you die in a state of mortal sin not even they will plead your cause in the

end they might plead a little bit as to showing God some good work you did to which they were witness but in the end it's not going to help you and they're not gonna push it obviously because

God's the judge so even they will see that your eternal condemnation if you are died in the state of mortal sin is truly just after God has shown you who and what you are who reveals to you the

sentence which is due to your state of soul again if you're in the state of mortal sin he will make it absolutely clear to you that you deserve not to receive his mercy you will only find

yourself in Hale Hell hating God's justice with every ounce of your being while at the same time clearly knowing that his justice is absolutely right and

absolutely just so what is there a bit of a false theology today there are some who say that we judge ourselves before God well there's a slight problem with that and that is the fact that we're

pretty dumb after the fall of Adam and Eve we're not too bright and the more we sin the devil we get so it's not going to be really helpful to ask the center well what do you think your soul when

he's blind and stupid so that's why God has to communicate with me it's as kind of a it is a kind of grace particularly for those who are more safe to get AB intellectual vision of who and what they

are so it's not we judging ourselves God judges us and what happens to the guilty soul before God in addition to being damned we know for a fact that the indignation

or wrath of God will be at the Annunciation of the person's death that is once a person dies I said before God he will witness God's indignation because God will have given him all sorts of graces on all sorts of houses

of course of his life and yet he rejected them and shows his sin and so he will have a grit that he will recognize God's great indignation also if you'll have profound shame because

shame st. Thomas defines as being

shame st. Thomas defines as being appeared as lowly well sins make us lowly because they attack us to creative things rather tune them to God and rather than doing God's will and so as a

result the solo sense a profound sense of shame then proverbs we read that there is this big big nation and the intonation of our death and the tribunal

of God instills a great fear in the soil because God's wrath to the sinner has no mercy and essentially once you're judged

that you deserve hell god cuts you off from the goods except for existence he cuts you off from the goods that are proper to his

love love is defined as willing to go to another now it can be understood in one of two ways it can either be understood as willing to good for oneself or it can be willing to good for the other person

and st. Thomas says that the love of

and st. Thomas says that the love of friendship which is when you will look for the other person as a more perfect form of love when you die and if you're in the state of mortal sin that says the

love of God is no longer extended to you as to its of facts and so you cut off st. Bernard says that the soul will

st. Bernard says that the soul will suffer more in seen the indignation of Jesus Christ then in hell that is in the sufferings of Hell itself this would seem to fit the description which Saint

John Bosco and his dreams provides regarding his boys that he that died while ever his care once they were judged in the sight of God they would

flee the sight of God and run headlong into hell was that line where he st.

John Bosco says to the pollute to the garden that's with him can I you know wants to stop him different going there's no you have to let him because that's what he wants he doesn't want to be on the side of God

with a slight blemish on his soul just gets to get away from him nothing will remain hidden about your sin to yourself but your sins some of

your sins still remain hidden to those which will see in the final judgment it's not going to be the case that is the general judgment but it's a particular judgment your sins still remain hidden to other people so when

you go to purgatory you're doing purgatory for a specific reason so for specific says that you've committed but you died in the state of grace but if you go to hell the sin is still hidden

although the demons are very good when you get into hell and they see that was the guy I tempted they know they have a pretty good idea of whether you've committed sin they don't have access to

our will so they can't see whether we've actually chosen to sin or not but they do have access to see what's in our imagination and so when we will things we image things that is we imagine

things we do certain things and from that they're much more perspicacious that is they're much more able to determine or to see whether we've actually committed the sin or not that

is they can kind of think yeah he did because you can see the confirmation of the sin in his lower faculties so when you get into hell of course then they'll torment you even before the final

judgment that is the general judgment and the balance of divine justice st.

Alphonsus tells us not riches nor dignities no nobility but works alone we'll have wait wonder what Martin Luther would think of that one

but the point being is is that it's what you do that is going to determine your judgment san agustin says that the devil will be at hand to recount your failings

in your baptismal vows and to recount your sins so he's gonna say he vowed to do this but he didn't and then he'll show instances or he'll argue cases they're your kids

he'll argue against you Origen says that the guardian angel will say to you if you're damned I labored so many years for your salvation that is you'll say to God I labored many years for that

salvation of that man but he's despised all my admonitions once in a while I reflect upon what we like to be a guardian angel I think it's analogous human beings in

relationship to angels caused angels are so much more intelligent than we are we're kind of like dogs you know we they can kind of help us in trance a little bit and do a little bit but every so often the dog just kind of runs off on his own

I I can't a man just imagine them saying this no don't go over that don't no don't you talk to that you know it's kind of like they do with dogs but in the end because they enlighten us because they introduce images into our

imagination and they come to enlighten us about what to do when we reject that than in the if we are damned in the end day of the effects of their level we cut

off from us they'll say I've labored and this guy did nothing but is he rejected what I was told them to do ones conscience will accuse him that is we'll

see this when we talk about Hell is that the person will see the fact that yes that is what I did and a conscience will nag him according to st. Chrysostom the

wounds of Christ will accuse the sinner he says quote the nails shall complain of thee the wounds in the cross of Christ shall speak against thee out of

clothes and so he's saying that Christ who suffered these wounds and everything for you was in vain it wasn't in vain for people who are saved but it was in

vain for you and so they Christ in his own body that is his own wounds will complain about the fact that you didn't take advantage of what he accomplished for you the sentence for the person who

is to be damned is depart from me you cursed into the everlasting fire which we read in Matthew 25 according to Dennis the carthesian the sentence will be like a tremendous clap

of thunder and resounding and by that he means of course if you can't hear anything in heaven because there's no physical thing except until after the resurrection and so it's not like their

sound that we hear things intellectually in a certain sense and so through the whole person's soul there will be this resounding thunder of God's wrath that the person deserves hell the terror of

the sinners that the sentence will be so great Eusebius tells us that if they could they would prefer the condemned Souls would prefer to die a second time than to hear the son

if you're in the state of grace God's infant mercy will extend to you and you shall be enveloped by the love of God in other words experientially you know today everyone goes around looking for

an experience of God and st. John of the Cross tells us well first of all you shouldn't be looking for that but second of all because what you should really be doing is not so much worrying about what you're experiencing it we should be

worried about am i doing God's will but he says that in this life the experience of God's love is usually painful and he says if not because on

the side of God because he's infinitely good but on our part he says it's analogous to light passing through a window when the light passes through the window if the window is dirty

it's the row light reflects and it doesn't actually penetrate and go through the window and if the light is strong enough and there's any any smudge

or blur on the glass it'll burn the glass well that in a certain sense that's the way God's love is for us in this life is because of our imperfection

yes when he when he gets involved with us it's painful to us in the beginning now sometimes God gives us little sensible consolations along the way but that's because we're again like dogs you got to give him the milk don't dog

biscuit to get him to roll over but eventually God's realizes like we do with the dog that look it eventually if the dog gets to the point you don't need to give him a snack and he'll just well

over when you say roll over well that's ultimately what God wants to do he wants any time he says anything you just do it and you don't need these little spiritual cookies so to speak along the way and what happens is is

that the fact of people trying to hear the spiritual cookie is a sign of spiritual immaturity they should be trying to get over that so that they can purify themselves because we be attached to that itself is an imperfection and

that's why Saint John of the Cross just says ignore them use them and so far as it helps you go along but don't focus on them just use them as a means and and that's it it's only to the perfect that

the love of God is very joyful and very sweet so what happens is is that once you judged that you are worthy of God's eternal company then the effect of God's

love permeates every faculty of yours see there's a tremendous intellectual and volitional and grasping of that when you are judged each Senate you did not get forgiven and

every imperfection which you did not overcome will be revealed to you and God will place you in purgatory will you where you will love his justice in other words you'll want to be purified so that

when you're in has his presence you'll be purified and you won't be ashamed of anything you know sometimes we get this experience when we're around somebody who's really holy and we know we're that we're not there's kind of an

uneasiness with us in the persons company looks the same way it is with God he's so perfect that when we compare ourselves in relationship to him if we have any imperfections it causes us

great pain and so those in purgatory even though they don't want to suffer the pains of purgatory nevertheless they want they would rather go through that than to actually have to stand in front

of God in that book by show called purgatory there's that fantastic line but the soul appears to go to a saint and the state says wouldn't want to be in heaven he said I would rather spend

an eternity in purgatory than a single instance in the sight of God with a single blemish on my soul and part of this is that you know not people of God

wants us to be like him the reason we're in his companies because we're like him and so that means that it is insofar as when we get to heaven and that means that he wants us to be perfect so that

his love can be absolute in relationship to us but is we could have experienced the full effects of his love or if there's any imperfection it's like you said hate the sin and love the sinner the love us but not entirely as to the

effects because of that imperfection and he doesn't want that he wants those in his company to fully experience the effects of his love so you will love his

justice and rejoice in the ability to be able to one day see our Lord you will suffer tremendously but your recognition of the necessity and the Justice of your suffering will likewise be absolute if

you're so fortunate is to die in the state of grace you will need you with no need to expiate for your sins for this since you died a martyr something this or you're so perfect when you die which

is not most of us and if you have no affections or sins on your souls you'll enter immediately into heaven but very few reach this goal very very few it seems that only a handful seem to have

reached this kind of perfection in this life or to die a martyr that is if you die a martyr you go immediately heaven for that is a certain justice and there's always considered a certain justice because that martyr forsakes

everything that is his whole life his whole being is held being in fact because as his body is separated from the soul he's cut into in a certain sense and so he's sacrificing even

everything all his possessions is himself everything and so as a result they always say that martyrdom expiates for all your sins how can God require

any more explanation for sin except for that one should lay down one's own life in the name of our Lord consequently your martyrdom will expiate for all your sins and your death will purify every

aspect of your being so you go to heaven there's no need to go to purgatory okay so there's the particular judgment but it's not over with yet even if you're in heaven you have to

come back because Christ will come you will win he will judge the living in the dead that is he will come back to judge the living in the dead at the general judgment well you may have undergone the

particular judgment you still have to undergo the general judgment and first let us remember that the Church's teaching that is if you merit hell or heaven at your particular judgment that sentence has not changed at the general

judgment so if you're at your particular judgment god condemns you to hell that's it your that's where you're gonna be you still have to come back if you don't want to of course but you have to come back whereas and in fact the people in

hell don't want our body back because it's just gonna add to their suffering whereas the people in heaven let their body back a part of it is because we have a natural inclination not to be a

free soul so just be floating around we actually want our body back that's a natural inclination to be in our body but also we'll see this when you get when you talk about heaven the next time there's a certain redundance of the joy

in the upper parts of the soul to the lower parts that is in our bodies so we'll talk about that later but anyway the point is don't want their body back but you have to come back and there's

several reasons for this there's several reasons for the general judgment and it's why the particular judgment isn't enough st. Thomas says for the first reason he

st. Thomas says for the first reason he says is because God will not reveal all of the effects of your sin at your particular judgment and the reason being

is because when you induce somebody else to sing through your sin that sin still has to remain hidden for me because you don't have a right to the person's interior life knowledge of their interior life and so even after you've

died you don't know the full effects of your sin the other thing is - is is that the effects of your sin are still gonna be unfolding through the course of time and so God has to wait until those

effects fully become manifest even though he already knows them he has to wait until they become fully manifest until he manifests them to everyone else this is again because of the sins that

are hidden from us and the effects of our sins even those in heaven who see God face to face do not know the full extent of your interior life it is like

what's going on whether there's sin or virtue or grace or whatever the good and bad effects of your actions at the general judgement will be manifest so

beginning with Adam and Eve all of the effects they will see all of the effects the unfolding of eating the Apple you'll see all of the effects of those who followed after them the things that they did all the good and bad effects will

become manifest so those in heaven will see all of history unfold before them even though they'll see bit some parts of it now when they're seeing God face to face now they don't see the whole of

it the secret thoughts and actions of all will be laid bare you see none of your sins are private because of the general judgment everything you did will

be out in the open for everyone to see for while you at your particular judgment under when a private sensing by God at the at the general judgment every

sin every evil affect will be revealed now sometimes people say well doesn't God forgive and forget well no because God doesn't change he's immutable and eternal what it means is when we say God

forgives him for gasps it means that he forgives our sins and he doesn't hold them against us anymore but when you and cause disorders in your soul I mean

we didn't you start habits virtues or virtues if it's good or when you sin it's advice and so your soul becomes disordered and so even though he might forgive the sin and it's no longer held

against you you still have to straighten your soul out because it's disorder and much like theft if you steal from somebody say if you still fifty dollars from somebody you walked up to them say

I'm sorry and you're holding the $50 in hand you refuse to give it back the injustice continues well it's the same thing with God's justice he created the world for his glory to manifest his perfections and when you commit a sin

you detract from that that's a form of theft and so you have to pay it back so that's why there's actually the temporal punishment due to sin it's not just because we become disorder it's because we've detracted from the glory of God in

the created order we have to pay him back in other words we stolen something from him that's rightly his and so he does forgive the sin and forget the sin and in the sense he doesn't hold it

against us but the effects of our sin still have to be dealt with those who suffer your bad effects have a right to

know where their suffering came from and those who benefited from your good actually I should desire to thank you in other words they want to manifest their appreciation for the good that you did

you see how the sins you commit now have a lasting impact on the direction of history for God had intended you to be

perfect already not in the making but now now the fact that you're not perfect now means okay now I got to work in order to get there but you are supposed to be perfect already that is you were

supposed to be a saint but since you did not reach that height the impact that has on the rest of human history will be seen in the final judgment if you were

as holy as God as intended the impact that you would have in people's lives just by your prayers sufferings and good works would change the lives of all those around you it's not because you're

not perfect and as a result that will be manifest to you what God had really wanted you to accomplish in this life in we'll talk to maybe a little bit about

this when we talk about heaven God pure danes when the angels fell from heaven they left a gaps in the hierarchy of greys as a God created man in order to refill those gaps and so he created

specific individuals to take specific places of the hierarchy in heaven and what happens is and this is why st. Paul

says one run to win the prize in other words you have to do everything you can to reach that level that God had intended for you because if you don't then he'll create someone else will take your place

a perfect example out of Annie Adams but it was originally supposed to take the place at the head of the foot of the human family well now it's Christ Eve was supposed to be the head the was supposed to be the highest woman in

heaven she lost that place now is given to our lady so what the moral the story is is that God wants you to reach a certain place in heaven and the fact that you lumber along with his imperfection to me you know you don't

they don't bother you with Rosa they she don't take reasonable ease overcome that means you're not gonna reach that level that he had intended for you so that would become manifest at the final judgment as well the next reason is is

that God who is the public authority know he's public because he's decreed of the whole universe everything that is here we sees he created he caused and so he's the public authority and authority

is a person has rights over the thing to determine how it's supposed to be done and whenever we commit a sin we violate his rights as I mentioned and so God who's the public authority when you

commit a sin you violate it say you violate the rights of the public authority it's analogous if I went up in public and slapped George Bush with a with a with a glove well the fact is is

it's a public offense and so in order to make restitution I have to make public restitution well god who's the public authority every time you sin you violate his rights and so you have to make

public restitution in a sense in that sense you have to stand before everybody an account for everything that you did god who's the public authority has a

right to the public vindication for every infraction of his law it is his right it's a divine right he created it

it's his property the fact that you violated it was a complete violation and he has a right to public occasion forth it's a matter of justice it'll be done to manifest God's glory

the final judgment that is his perfections that is he is perfectly just and yet perfectly merciful also the perfections of God is manifest in his

creatures that is in the various people will be come to life as well your sin will either be a shame experienced at the deepest levels of your being when you're standing in front of God or there

will be a reminder of God's profound mercy if you're in the state of grace they will be the moment of rejoicing for those who are in the state of grace not in your sin but in God's mercy and

looking how good he is for us the next reason the good Fame of those who undeserving Lee had it in this life must be publicly destroyed because it's a

matter of justice some people don't have a right to a good public name and the fact that they have it that has to be stripped from them and that can't be accomplished unless it happens in front

of everybody the bad name of those undeserving must be done in other words if they didn't deserve a bad name that has to be straightened out so those

deserving of bad Fame must be accomplished since sometimes the evil that they've done is hidden it must be made manifest so that everyone realizes he's deserving of this and he's

deserving of that also the good Fame of those whose good is hidden must come to full light in other words nothing will be hidden people this idea that my sin is private it's hidden no one's going to

see it uh-uh at the final judgement you're gonna stand in front of billions of people and billions of saints and every infraction of the law is going to

be drug out in front of everybody to see now there's two ways in which people see it those who have the beatific vision see the sin in your soul they see it and

they see it historically by seeing the vision of God those who are damned don't have access to the beatific vision and so they'll only know it by its proclamation by Christ or the accusers

who will stand at the right or the left at the left accusing you so nothing is hidden people have this idea you know well it goes on between you know me and this other person is

period affair no it's not it's God's affair and it's going to be made manifest some things about God were hidden some things about God are hidden

from the jost which accidentally takes away from their happiness all will be revealed so that they can have a perfect Marvel enjoying the works of God that isn't God himself you know sometimes

people say you know that the people in heaven don't know when the end of the world is yes and no it's analogous to this if your keys are sitting on the front of the desk and you know you're looking for where are my keys

where are my keys even though you're looking right at them everyone's had this experience you would believe in philosophy we say you materially see them in other words it gets in your eyes but formerly you don't in other words

intellectually don't recognize them well in heaven because you see God face to face materially you see everything he's caused because he's absolutely simple he

can't hide parts in himself rather what God does is he blocks it on the side of the creature to be able to see that in him at the final judgment that stopped

everything is revealed so what happens is they'll be able to see all of the sin they'll understand the course of history like no one else the just have a right to know how the

demons inhibited them for the sake of perfect hate from them there's that great line and you know in the Old Testament but the perfect hate I shall hate thee now of course the Jews meant it in reference to human beings but God

never had intended that he meant to transpose that once the perfect revelation came with the New Testament to be understood that it refers to the demons and to the Damned we have to have a perfect haven for them because hatred

turns us away from them and that's what we have to do to avoid them while while at the same time we have a desire to know the good that the Angels did for us

some of these things cannot be known because the effect they affect the interior life of others which God does not reveal until the last day Saint Thomas said that even the demons and the

angels are subject to Christ's judicial power so even they will be judged now it's not exactly certain exactly how that's supposed to take place whether they like the rest of us will be drugged

up individually and judged that's not real clear it could be or it could actually just be that God by the virtue of the fact that they're on the left the demons are on the left and the Saints

are on the right will know who is damned and who is who is saved the day of wrath itself so those are the reasons why you have to have a final judgment so then what about the day of wrath

itself the Dia's Irae which is a reference in the old right you know they have that sequence called the Dia's area the day of wrath the day of judgment which it recounts what's actually gonna

happen Christ will return on the clouds which everybody will see and take his seat in the valley of Josaphat so it's

in Josaphat where Christ will sit on that day God's anger will be meted out okay so what happens is he takes his

seat and then everybody resurrects and then there's says India's arrayed there's a blowing of the trumpet so the Angels sound the trumpet which everybody

hears which is a call to come to the place of judgment and then the desire says koja Dante on Dante omnes ante thrown them which is all will be forced

before the throne I'm sure that the damned will be cursing and carrying on on the way there they're not going to be liking it too much when they're dragged across the planet to get them over there to be to be judged but I'm sure once

they get in the presence of Christ they'll shut up but the point being is is that but also the people who are saved once they get their body back still want to go to the final judgment

so everyone resurrects and then they come to the actual place in which Christ is seated and then it's the day of wrath

anger st. Thomas says he is a complex

anger st. Thomas says he is a complex passion it has a sorrow at the injury done and so the just and even the Damned

will sorrow at the injuries the crisis stained but for different reasons of course but then the second one is the second aspect of anger is a desire for

vindication and so the Christ desires vindication his own vindication this is why he says in the Old Testament you know vengeance is mine about it guys gonna take it in the end

so don't have you don't have to worry about it but the point being is is that the desire for vindication will be part

of it and so got the vindication the extracting of justice from us will be done on that day God will get a vindication from all those who injured him through the detracting from his

glory in this life and the just judge comes there will be great terror and tremoring that said the same thing the Angels will sound the trumpets again which will behold all the earth and the

when people resurrect there's a reason why you're actually buried facing east because when you resurrect literally the person is beta is supposed to face east

of it when he stands up out of his grave to be facing east whose Christ the son of Christ will the son of them that God will rise in the East that is a reference to Christ it's the same reason

why it's the same reason why in the old ride everybody faces east now it doesn't have to actually be physical these has to be interior East and what we mean by that is that everybody's supposed to be

facing God so when we people resurrect the reason why in the past in Catholic cemeteries they always try to bury everybody facing east so that when you resurrect you'd be facing the place in which you have to go for the final

judgement so everyone's forced but throw the thrown when everybody assembles then there is the reference and they book an apocalypse that the book of life is offer in other words there's a book

that's placed from which the judgment will occur now there's not an actual physical book when they say you know the book of life there's not actual a physical book the Vatican have what they call the book of life that when someone's canonized they write their

name in it but that's not the actual book that Christ is going to be dragging out the book refers the book is what contains knowledge the book that then

reference is a metaphorical reference to the knowledge that Christ has in his human nature of our sins in our good

works and so as a result he already knows that through the beatific vision that he has of his own essence that isn't the essence of the divine essence

and so as a result he already knows is worthy of our sins and it's right for him to judge because he's the one who laid his life down for us so he's the

one who gets to determine who's gonna be part of his company and who's not that is who gets to receive the effects of his giving up his life and who doesn't and so the when we talk about

the book of life we're actually referring to that is who's going to be live and who's going to be dance actually refers to the knowledge that Christ has in his human nature about us

and this will be pronounced physically by Christ not only will he communicate to us intellectually we have to be into the vision everything about our state but also there will be a physical

pronunciation of what is due to us and part of this is so that those who are dams can hear what their sentence is the evil shall be silenced and confounded

except when others are judged they shall be the witnesses against them so the demons will print us shop until it comes time to actually try and win over a soul

to get into hell and in this case there is this I can't remember which Saint says it but they said there's this pleading or maybe it's just in a Booker they said first off before anyone's

judged Satan will stand before Christ I say I demand the souls of all of the people that lived and because of the fact that everybody committed sin except

to save Our Lady and our Lord of course and those like John the Baptist who are confirmed in grace but those are only a few he's going to demand the whole of humankind to which Christ will deny

because of the fact that he he'll say no because I made my life down for them and some of them died in grace so as a result some of them will be saved and so Satan recedes until people brought up

and then the various demons attempted you and things like that will be brought forth to your judgment other people's judgment to say well he did this this and this but then Christ will decree

whether it was actually sinful or not because sometimes were tempted and we might fall but it may not be fully deliberate or fully voluntary and as a result it may not be fully sinful and it

all has to be done it's all played out physically each person will stand for God from the Adam and Eve until the last man and given accounting before

every one of each and every sin that he has committed the Fathers of the Church say as a result if you think of how many people there are and how many angels are the fathers say that the final decree

general judgment will take a great deal of time in other words it's good we're gonna be there awhile now for those who are saved because they have the resurrected body of the attributes at the resurrected body which

means it never gets tired so I can just stand there all day long doesn't bother them in fact they just know just as much as sitting as far as they cared and kneeling for that matter but when it comes to those four a damned when they

get their bodies back it's not that way of seeing the opposite they're in a constant state of exhaustion so they'll actually for them the fact that it goes on and on and on will drive them nuts

but for the saved it's gonna be constant delight one thing after another because you'll see look what God did here and look at that they're so they'll always those be a great joy it's it's a long thing and so that the people who are

saved they'll actually like the final judgment not that they have to sit and go through it and not that they want to see all the sins committed against Christ but they want to see the profound

way in which God's mercy worked in the lives of those who were saved those enjoying the beatific vision will see as I mentioned the sins and the deputy of souls and those without will hear the

sinners pronouncement Christ and all the demons will acute the demons had anything to do with you will accuse you in the end those judged according to his mercy will be taken up into heaven

the real rapture not the Protestant weird idea somehow along Christ is just gonna come and all of a sudden some of us are just gonna get sucked up into heaven that's a classic example of a bad

interpretation of the vile and gone astray rather we're talking about by rapture we're actually talking about after the final judgment those who see God face to face

raucous means to be taken and so you'll be taken up into heaven all right those without His mercy will actually be

damned to hell which these two things will pick up the next time I come now if you'll kneel I'll give you a blessing benedict showdown before twenties part

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