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.

Remember, in our particular judgment at the moment of death, our life will be measured against the life of Christ.

As St John of the Cross says, at the evening of life we shall be judged on our love.

And at that point we will receive either immediate entrance into the blessedness of heaven or through the purification

of purgatory or immediate and everlasting damnation.

Now, what is the difference between our particular judgment and

the last judgment? Our particular judgment is about the story of our life.

It is the story of what we have chosen,

either love of God and love of neighbor

over love of self, which results ultimately in heaven, or the love of self over the love of self over 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.

And if it wanted itself more than anything, then it gets what it wanted, only itself and nothing more, and that is hell.

God just gives us what we want.

Now, if the particular judgment reveals the story of our individual life,

then the last judgment reveals the story about all of human history. It's where God

reveals how his Providence guided all the stories of every person to work together for the greatest good.

Now, you and I will be present at the last judgment.

And the last judgment will reveal, even to its furthest consequences,

the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life.

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