ESCHATOLOGYTHE STUDY OF END TIMES

MICHELANGELO’S LAST JUDGEMENT

HUMAN LIFE …

What happens to us when we die?

IN DEATH BODY AND SOUL ARE SEPARATED. THE BODY DECAYS, WHILE THE SOUL GOES TO MEET GOD AND WAITS TO BE REUNITED WITH ITS RISEN BODY ON THE LAST DAY

HOW DOES CHRIST HELPS US AT OUR DEATH?

IN VIEW OF JESUS’ SUFFERING AND DEATH, DEATH ITSELF CAN BECOME EASIER. WE MUST TRUST IN GOD AS JESUS DID AND UNITE OURSELVES WITH CHRIST’S SUFFERING ON THE CROSS.

IF WE DIE IN UNION WITH GOD AND AT PEACE WITH ALL WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO COMMUNION WITH THE RISEN CHRIST

WHAT IS ETERNAL LIFE?

ETERNAL LIFE BEGINS WITH BAPTISM AND CONTINUES THROUGH DEATH AND WILL HAVE NO END.

PARTICULAR JUDGEMENT

OCCURS AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH YOU CAN NO LONGER REPRESS OR

CONCEAL ANYTHING NOTHING MORE CAN BE CHANGED GOD SEES US AS WE ARE WE MUST BE “RIGHT” WITH HIM IF SO

WE WILL JOIN HIM IN HEAVEN OR …MAYBE STILL BE IN NEED OF

PURIFICATION OR MAYBE WE TURN FROM GOD

WHAT IS HEAVEN?

HEAVEN IS ENDLESS LOVE NOTHING MORE CAN SEPARATE US

FROM GOD WHOM WE LOVE AND HAVE SOUGHT OUR WHOLE LIFE.

TO SEE GOD FACE TO FACE

PURGATORY

NOT A PLACE BUT A CONDITION

SOMEONE WHO DIES IN GOD’S GRACE BUT WHO STILL NEEDS PURIFICATION

PROBABLY AWAITS MOST OF US IT IS EXPERIENCING BURINING

SHAME AND PAINFUL REMORSE OVER OUR FAILURES TO LOVE

PURGATORY

WE CAN HELP THE SOULS IN PURGATORY BY PRAYING FOR THEM, BY RECEIVING THE EUCHARIST AND DOING GOOD WORKS.

THE PERSON WHO HAS DIED NO LONGER CAN DO ANYTHING FOR HIMSELF

HELL

HELL IS THE CONDITION OF EVERLASTING SEPARATION FROM GOD, THE ABSOLUTE ABSENCE OF LOVE.

SOMEONE WHO WITH FULL CONSENT DIES IN SERIOUS SIN WITHOUT REPENTING AND

REFUSES GOD’S MERCIFUL FORGIVING LOVE EXCLUDES HIMSELF FROM UNION WITH GOD AND THE SAINTS

OUR FREE WILL ALLOWS THIS TO BE POSSIBLE

LAST JUDGEMENT

TAKES PLACE AT THE END OF THE WORLD

AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST

THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD TO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE

THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL TO THE RESURRECTION OF FINAL JUDGEMENT

MICHELANGELO’S LAST JUDGEMENT