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- Every soul will unite with its resurrected body just prior to the Last Judgment (“Judgment Day”) when Christ returns: In the presence of Christ, who is Truth itself, the truth of each man’s relationship with God will be laid bare.
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Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven—through a purification or immediately—or immediate and everlasting damnation. (CCC 1022)
Jun 23, 2021 · When a person dies, we believe their soul immediately faces God in what’s called the “particular judgment”—they are judged by God as fit for heaven (with perhaps purification in purgatory first) or as fit for hell.
Nov 7, 2021 · We will be judged by the one who came to take away our sins, and so we have the happy confidence that if we have the least repentance we will be mercifully judged and reach heaven even, as St. Paul tells us “as if by fire”—that is, through a purification after death.
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- II. Pre-Christian Beliefs Concerning Judgment After Death
- III. Particular Judgment
- IV. General Judgment
The idea of a final readjustment beyond the grave, which would rectify the sharp contrast so often observed between the conduct and the fortune of men, was prevalent among all nations in pre-Christian times. Such was the doctrine of metempsychosis or the transmigration of souls, as a justification of the ways of God to man, prevailing among the Hin...
The Catholic doctrine of the particular judgment consists in this, that immediately after death the eternal destiny of each separated soul is decided by the just judgment of God. Although there has been no formal definition on this point, the dogma is clearly implied in the Union Decree of Eugene IV (1439), which declares that souls quitting their ...
(1) Few truths are oftener or more clearly proclaimed in Scripture than that of the general judgment. To it the Prophets of the Old Testament refer when they speak of the “Day of the Lord” (Joel, ii, 31; Ezech., xiii, 5; Is., ii, 12), in which the nations will be summoned to judgment. In the New Testament the second Parusia, or coming of Christ as ...
Feb 10, 2021 · From an individual's perspective, according to CCC 1022, upon death the immortal soul immediately enter into one of possible 3 states (as particular judgment): the blessedness of heaven immediately [for the saints] the blessedness of heaven through a purification [purgatory] immediate and everlasting damnation.
Jan 26, 2021 · Finally, the Catechism says this: “The Last Judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life” (1039). When The Story is completely written, then all of the consequences of all decisions will be known.
