Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we

encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down through the

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we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. It is Day 141. Today we're reading paragraphs of 1038 to 1041. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com

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daily notifications today is day 141. We're reading paragraphs 1038 to 1041. It is only a few short

paragraphs. In fact, I counted them. There's four of them. And we're talking today about the last judgment. You know, we talked about particular judgment about how those who have chosen God get God, right? We get heaven, eternal life with the Lord, with our lady, with the saints. Incredible. We also have the purification, the purgatory that can happen in our lives if we've chosen God imperfectly.

You still have attachments. We talked about hell yesterday. But today, there's this resurrection of the dead at the end of all time. And that's the last judgment. A couple of things to keep in mind as we read these four short paragraphs is, remember, there's the particular judgment. We experience that at the moment of our deaths. And remember there's the particular judgment.

We experience that at the moment of our deaths.

And then there's the last judgment, meaning when Christ comes at the end of time and everything is done, like the whole story of creation has been written.

And all there is is eternity.

So keep this in mind.

This is a cosmic kind of event that is going to happen. This cosmic event

that's going to happen is the end of time when the entire story has been written. And this is the

last judgment. And it's not as if we get another shot at it. It's like, well, you know, if you chose

hell the first time, you might choose heaven this time or you might lose heaven. Not that at all. What it is is the finalization, essentially, of the whole

story to its furthest extent. And I want you to, I invite you to keep that in mind that when we talk

about the last judgment, again, it's Christ's triumph over history where he basically brings

everything to write, all of the sorrows that we experienced,

all the evil that he tolerated on this earth in all of our stories, all of that is brought

to write. And that's a great message of hope, but also a message that reminds us to use

this time to prepare ourselves for that moment of judgment that every one of

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