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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

The Lesser Known Final Judgment

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Death, judgment, heaven, and hell—the four last things—are popular enough topics among Christians; but there’s more to these things than just our own personal end. In this episode​,​ Fr. Mike explains how, as the Catechism teaches, in the Last Judgment “the ultimate meaning of the whole work of creation and of the entire economy of salvation” will be made known to us (CCC 1040). All the good and evil you and I have done will also become known. Fr. Mike’s perspective on this reality is both fascinating and humbling.

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0:00.0

How many names father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents.

0:06.8

So we all know about what they call the Four Last Things, right?

0:11.0

Ever since the beginning Christianity, the Catholic Church has taught about the Four Last

0:14.2

Things, death, judgment, heaven and hell.

0:17.0

That every single one of us has to die.

0:19.2

At the moment of our death, we have what they call the particular judgment, right?

0:22.7

Our lives are judged.

0:24.2

Whether we've chosen to say yes to God and chosen him, or we've chosen to say no to God,

0:28.9

or even been indifferent towards him, we either get heaven or hell.

0:34.0

God's justice is completely just.

0:35.6

God's judgment is completely just and we get actually what we've chosen.

0:38.8

He factors in everything that is a factorable factor in our lives, every mitigating factor,

0:45.5

every circumstance he knows it all through and through.

0:47.3

He knows our hearts through and through and we actually get what we've actually chosen

0:50.8

because Jesus has made heaven possible.

0:53.0

So that's what they call the particular judgment.

0:55.2

But the Catholic Church is always taught about, and the Scripture is always taught about this

0:57.7

thing called the final judgment.

0:59.1

Wait, so at the moment of death you get judged and then in the last judgment you get judged

1:04.5

again.

1:05.5

So what's the difference between the particular judgment and the final judgment?

1:09.3

This was confusing to me.

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