Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

At the end of time, Christ will come to judge the living and the dead, and this will be the last judgment.

Now there are two judgments. Our particular judgment at the end of our life

and the last judgment at the end of the world. Our particular judgment occurs immediately after

death. At that moment our life will be measured against the life of Christ.

And St. John of the Cross says,

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

Then the soul receives its reward, either immediate entrance into the blessedness of heaven

or through the purification of purgatory

or immediate and everlasting damnation.

Now our particular judgment is about the story of our life.

It's the story of what we've chosen, either love of God and neighbor over the love of self,

which results in heaven, or the love of self over the love of God and neighbor, which results in

hell. See, the soul goes where it wants to go. If it wanted God more than anything, then it goes to God. If it wanted itself more than anything, then it gets only what it wanted, only itself, nothing more, and that's hell.

God just gives us what we want.

If the particular judgment reveals the story of our individual life,

then the last judgment reveals the story about all human history.

The last judgment takes place at the end of the world when Christ returns in power and glory.

All the dead will be raised, and this judgment will reveal how each person's

life fit into the broader context of human history and God's divine plan.

It's where God reveals how his providence guided all the individual stories of every person

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