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Choose a topic from Part 3 Suppl:

• Penance (Continued)
• Extreme Unction
• Order (Holy Orders)
• Matrimony
• The General Resurrection
  • 69. The Place of Departed Souls
  • 70. Quality of a Separated Soul
  • 71. Suffrages for the Dead
  • 72. Prayers to the Saints
  • 73. Signs Preceding General Resurrection and Judgement
  • 74. The Fire of Judgment Day
  • 75. The Resurrection of the Body
  • 76. The Cause of the Resurrection of the Body
  • 77. Time and Manner of the Resurrection of the Body
  • 78. The Starting Point of the Bodily Resurrection
  • 79. The Risen Body
  • 80. The Integrity of the Risen Body
  • 81. The Quality of Those Risen from the Dead
  • 82. The Impassibility of Risen Bodies
  • 83. The Subtlety of Risen Bodies
  • 84. The Agility of Risen Bodies
  • 85. The Clarity of Risen Bodies
  • 86. The Risen Bodies of the Damned
• The Last Things
• Appendix I (The Innocents in Limbo)
• Appendix II (Two Notes on Purgatory)

73. Signs Preceding General Resurrection and Judgement

1. When our Lord comes in glory to judge the world at theend of time, certain signs shall herald his coming. These signswill be such as to forewarn all people and bring them into reverentsubjection to God's will if they will heed. Just what the signsof Christ's second coming will be, we do not know. Those signsmentioned in scripture refer not only to his coming to judgemankind, but to his coming continually to visit his Church; some ofthem refer to the coming of divine justice upon unfaithfulJerusalem.

2. The actual darkening of the sun and moon may precedethe coming of the Judge, and may stir sinners to fear andrepentance. But it is not likely that the Day of Judgment will bedark. Our Lord will come in glory as scripture says (Isa. 30:26):"The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, andthe light of the sun shall be sevenfold."

3. "The virtues of heaven shall be moved," saysscripture, referring to the day of general judgment (Matt. 24:29).This prediction probably refers to the angels, either in general,or to the particular order of angels called Virtues. Theend of time means a change in the temporal assignment of angels whohave charge of earthly things.

"Happy is the youth, because he has time before him to do good. "
St Philip Neri

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"The supreme perfection of man in this life is to be so united to God that all his soul with all its faculties and powers are so gathered into the Lord God that he becomes one spirit with him, and remembers nothing except God, is aware of and recognises nothing but God, but with all his desires unified by the joy of love, he rests contentedly in the enjoyment of his Maker alone."
St Albert the Great

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"If you wish to learn and appreciate something worth while, then love to be unknown and considered as nothing. Truly to know and despise self is the best and most perfect counsel."
Thomas á Kempis

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