Resurrection and Return
What is the Second Coming?
The Second Coming is Christ's future return in glory at the end of time to bring about the full consummation of God's kingdom.
What is the Particular Judgment?
It is the individual judgment of each soul immediately after death.
In which Gospel passage does Jesus speak of separating the sheep from the goats?
Matthew 25
According to the Hour of Death segment, what is the single action people are unlikely to regret at the end of life?
Spending time in prayer
What is viaticum?
"Food for the Journey"; it is the last time a person receives Holy Communion
How will Jesus return according to Catholic teaching?
Catholic teaching says Jesus will return in glory, visibly and gloriously, with all the angels, to judge the living and the dead.
What is the Last Judgment?
It is the universal judgment at Christ’s Second Coming when all are judged publicly and bodies are reunited with souls.
What will happen to evil at the Second Coming?
It will be completely overcome.
How does Father Mike describe the knowledge we will have of ourselves at the Last Judgment?
Complete understanding without pride or shame
When it comes to our resurrected bodies, what does impassability mean?
Incapable of suffering and free from death
Contrast between the first coming of Jesus and the Second Coming.
First coming: humble, incarnate, suffering, to redeem
Second Coming: glorious, triumphant, to judge and fully establish God's reign.
Distinguish one main difference between the Particular Judgment and the Last Judgment.
Particular Judgment decides the soul's immediate destiny; Last Judgment reveals the full moral meaning of each life publicly and consummates history.
According to Catholic teaching, will our bodies be reunited with our souls? Why?
Yes — Catholic teaching holds that bodies and souls will be reunited because humans are composite beings created by God; the resurrection restores the whole person.
What does Bishop Don say about death in relation to God's original plan?
It is a result of sin.
When it comes to our resurrected bodies, what does agility mean?
The body will obey the soul with ease and speed.
What does "resurrection of the body" mean?
Resurrection of the body means that at the end of time, the dead will be raised bodily — their souls reunited with transformed, glorified bodies.
What four things will determine if we go to Heaven, Purgatory, or Hell?
The things we thought
The things we said
The things we did
The things we did not do
Why is it possible for people to end up in hell even though God does not will anyone to go there?
Because God gives humans free will; God does not force love — people can freely choose to reject God, with lasting consequences.
What is created after the last judgment according to the video, Particular Judgment vs. Final Judgment?
A new heaven and a new earth
When it comes to our resurrected bodies, what does clarity mean?
The body will be beautiful and free of deformity.
Name two qualities that will happen to our resurrected bodies at the Last Judgment. You do not need to explain them.
Bodies will become incorruptible/impassible (incapable of suffering), clarified (spiritual qualities shine through), agile (obey soul quickly), beautiful/free of deformity.
Will there be a need for Purgatory at the Last Judgment? What happens to souls in Purgatory at the Second Coming?
Purgatory will no longer be needed after the Last Judgment; souls in purgatory will be purified and enter the fullness of communion with God.
Explain the phrase: “death is not the end of life, but only the end of this life.”
Death ends our earthly life but not our existence; our soul continues, and the resurrection and judgment await — ultimately, life goes on beyond physical death in a transformed way.
What are the four last things taught by the Church?
Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell
When it comes to our resurrected bodies, what does subtlety mean?
Spiritual nature will not be hidden but will shine through.