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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, May 20th, 20th, 2025. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about Z for Zion. We have already learned that Zion is another

name for the New Jerusalem, Heaven, which is the city of God where God will dwell for all eternity with his people.

Today we are going to dive into heaven. What does the catechism say heaven is and what will it be like?

But before we get to that, please join me in our May

prayer, the Memerare. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

Remember, oh most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known, that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought

thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O virgins,

a virgins, my mother. To thee I come before thee I stand, sinful and sourful. O mother of the word incarnate,

despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me, amen. In the name of the Father

and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

So what is heaven?

Well, as you likely know, after we die, we will go to particular judgment, which means all on our own, God will judge what we have done and what we have not done during this

life.

And based on that judgment, we will be sent to one of three places.

If we have rejected God totally, then he will allow us to reject him and to live for all

eternity without him in hell.

If we have sinned against him, but we have not fully rejected him, but we just have

some unhealthy, sinful attachment still, then God will send us to purgatory to have

those things purged, or so that we can be healed and we can be in a full state of grace so eventually

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