He will come to judge the living and the dead

[Dad_of_Ten]

can someone clarify this part of our creed?

Have not the dead been judge already and in heaven or Hell?

 

[Michael19682]

can someone clarify this part of our creed?

Have not the dead been judge already and in heaven or Hell?

I always thought it meant those “dead in sin” (as in “let the dead bury their dead”) at his second coming, and those alive then also. and that the bodily resurrection occurs then also and everyone is given a new body of light. i’ve heard other explanations also that I don’t fully understand, but its the latter point that is difficult for me also.

 

[Miserissima]

The particular judgement comes immediately after our death.

The general judgement comes to each at Christ,'s second coming.

More info:

catholic.com/quickquestions/how-can-there-be-a-general-judgment-and-a-particular-judgment

jimmyakin.com/the-baltimore-catechism-lesson-37

 

[mikekle]

The particular judgement comes immediately after our death.

The general judgement comes to each at Christ,'s second coming.

More info:

catholic.com/quickquestions/how-can-there-be-a-general-judgment-and-a-particular-judgment

jimmyakin.com/the-baltimore-catechism-lesson-37

Ive wondered alot about this…I know it is said the dead will suddenly be alive again and be able to walk to earth again, Im pretty sure it wont be like ‘Night of the living dead’, but I guess I cant be sure, after all, there will be alot of souls/ people that have been in hell for hundreds if not 1000s of years and then all the sudden, they are back on earth, in their bodies…what can we possibly expect from these people!!! Will they attack the living? pretty scary!

I also wonder how long this will go on, I mean, will everyone be judged within a day, or will all these dead people back in their bodies be walking around for years, decades…longer? Im curious what everyone will be doing during this period…id imagine it will be pretty strange for most people, but I admit, i kind of look forward to seeing my mother and some friends again…wonder if we will be able to spend time with them, go out together, talk for hours, etc?

Anyone have a clue about any of this?

 

[Bob_Crowley]

The following paragraphs from the Catechism relate to the particular judgement, that is, the judgement we individually or particularly receive immediately after death.

1021 Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ.590 The New Testament speaks of judgment primarily in its aspect of the final encounter with Christ in his second coming, but also repeatedly affirms that each will be rewarded immediately after death in accordance with his works and faith. The parable of the poor man Lazarus and the words of Christ on the cross to the good thief, as well as other New Testament texts speak of a final destiny of the soul -a destiny which can be different for some and for others.591

1022 Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven-through a purification592 or immediately,593-or immediate and everlasting damnation.594

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.595

The following paragraphs deal with the last judgement, which will be a mass affair, involving all men of all time, and all at the same time, when Christ returns in glory.

There also seems to be what might be called a revelation of the meaning of human history, which all will see. At the particular judgement we will most likely see our own actions or inactions, and the immediate effect they had on others. But we will not see the entire effect until the Final Judgement.

Taking a political example, certain politicians conspired to go to war with Iraq. The long term consequences of this - civil war, a hardening of Moslem attitudes, Libya, Syria, ISIS and who knows what else - are still being worked out. It’s quite possible that the decisons they made will not reach their full effect till after they die themselves.

But at the General Judgement the full effects will be shown, for better or worse. One hopes the politicians had right motives when they made those decisions, for their own sakes as much as anyone else.

V. THE LAST JUDGMENT

1038 The resurrection of all the dead, "of both the just and the unjust,"623 will precede the Last Judgment. This will be "the hour when all who are in the tombs will hear [the Son of man’s] voice and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment."624 Then Christ will come "in his glory, and all the angels with him. . . . Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. . . . And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."625

1039 In the presence of Christ, who is Truth itself, the truth of each man’s relationship with God will be laid bare.626 The Last Judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life:

All that the wicked do is recorded, and they do not know. When "our God comes, he does not keep silence.". . . he will turn towards those at his left hand: . . . "I placed my poor little ones on earth for you. I as their head was seated in heaven at the right hand of my Father - but on earth my members were suffering, my members on earth were in need. If you gave anything to my members, what you gave would reach their Head. Would that you had known that my little ones were in need when I placed them on earth for you and appointed them your stewards to bring your good works into my treasury. But you have placed nothing in their hands; therefore you have found nothing in my presence."627

1040 The Last Judgment will come when Christ returns in glory. Only the Father knows the day and the hour; only he determines the moment of its coming. Then through his Son Jesus Christ he will pronounce the final word on all history. We shall know the ultimate meaning of the whole work of creation and of the entire economy of salvation and understand the marvelous ways by which his Providence led everything towards its final end. The Last Judgment will reveal that God’s justice triumphs over all the injustices committed by his creatures and that God’s love is stronger than death.628

1041 The message of the Last Judgment calls men to conversion while God is still giving them "the acceptable time, . . . the day of salvation."629 It inspires a holy fear of God and commits them to the justice of the Kingdom of God. It proclaims the “blessed hope” of the Lord’s return, when he will come "to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all who have believed."630