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Something To Ponder This Lent

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The good of our neighbor is advanced by things pertaining to the spiritual welfare of the soul rather than by things pertaining to the supplying of bodily needs, in proportion to the excellence of spiritual over corporal things…Spiritual works of mercy surpass corporal works of mercy.  St. Thomas Aquinas 

This Is What Justice Looks Like

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  (Image Source: cathopic.com )   There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nothing hidden that will not be made known.   Everything you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight; what you have whispered in locked rooms will be proclaimed from the rooftops.  (Luke 12:2-3)  

Will I Take The Time To Remember?

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(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )   I will remember the four last things: death, judgment, heaven or hell, and remembering them as I ought, I shall never sin.  Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S. 

What Happens At Death

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[How many souls are lost because we neither share this Truth nor meditate on it] (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ…Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven – through a purification or immediately – or immediate and everlasting damnation.  Catechism of the Catholic Church 1022