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Lesson 14

The Four Last Things

We believe in Four Last Things: death, judgement, Heaven (and Purgatory), and Hell.

Catechism Connections

Lesson Topics
Saints The Four Last Things
Essential Lessons

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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Communion of Saints
    :
    (n.): The unity in Christ of all the redeemed, those souls in Heaven who enjoy the Beatific Vision, those souls in Purgatory enduring purification, and those souls on earth still working out their salvation.
  • Heaven
    :
    (n.): The state of being after death in which “those who die in God’s grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live forever with Christ” (CCC 1023). The souls in Heaven enjoy perfect communion and relationship with God, His angels, and all of the saints. In Heaven we will see God face-to-face, as He is. This is called the Beatific Vision.
  • Purgatory
    :
    (n.): The state of being after death in which those who “die in God’s grace and friendship, but [are] still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of Heaven” (CCC 1030).
  • Hell
    :
    (n.): The state of being after death in which those who die unrepentant of mortal sin and refuse the love and mercy of God to the end experience eternal separation from God and the Communion of Saints. The primary punishment in Hell is the eternal separation from God while continually thirsting for Him.
  • Four Last things
    :
    (n.): The name given to the collective events and states of being of death and the afterlife. They are: death, judgment, Heaven, and Hell.
  • Particular Judgment
    :
    (n.): The judgment experienced immediately after death in which the sum total of our life’s choices for or against God are revealed. Based on our own decisions throughout the course of our lives, we will be given entrance to Heaven (or Purgatory) or will be sent to Hell.
  • General/Last Judgment
    :
    (n.):The judgment experienced on the Last Day in which the light of Christ, who is Truth itself, will illuminate everything. Nothing will remain hidden. We will see not only all of our own individual choices for or against God, but how each one affected everyone else and the whole order of creation. On this, then, we will be judged and welcomed to eternal life with Christ in the New Heavens and the New Earth, or banished into the eternal torment of Hell.

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