Right after death

[Crown_of_Stars]

Do we, as Catholics, know exactly…exactly what happens upon the moment of our death, as far as Who we see? I picture, not God or Mary, but Jesus, looking right into my eyes, holding out His hands, and that I would know, just from His face and the look in His eyes what my eternal fate is, without either of us having to speak a single word. I picture that this only lasts for seconds. It may be different for individual souls, but I’m feeling as though it would pretty much be the same. I’ve always just been very interested in this, and give it thought often. We do see and are with Jesus for, at least, seconds, and He is the first, if not the only, One we see and are “greeted by”, in a sense…I’ve always read this…do you feel this is true? What are your individual “ideas” of what may happen to us, what we see or feel and experience upon the second of death?

 

[GEddie]

Do we, as Catholics, know exactly…exactly what happens upon the moment of our death, as far as Who we see? I picture, not God or Mary, but Jesus, looking right into my eyes, holding out His hands, and that I would know, just from His face and the look in His eyes what my eternal fate is, without either of us having to speak a single word. I picture that this only lasts for seconds. It may be different for individual souls, but I’m feeling as though it would pretty much be the same. I’ve always just been very interested in this, and give it thought often. We do see and are with Jesus for, at least, seconds, and He is the first, if not the only, One we see and are “greeted by”, in a sense…I’ve always read this…do you feel this is true? What are your individual “ideas” of what may happen to us, what we see or feel and experience upon the second of death?

We don’t know, and I’d imagine that the “afterlife” would be as individualized as the human life itself.

But I, for one, am horrified of death, and yearn to be held by our LORD and see life everlasting reflected in HIS eyes

ICXC NIKA.

 

[amsjj]

Jesus is God, so I was a mite confused what you meant by “I picture not God or Mary”.

For myself, I hope that my Patron Fathers, my saints and my guardian angel will led me to the Lord. I imagine He will be as a consuming fire, revealing the final Truth of my existence.

 

[joe_monk]

I imagine I will spend some time in Purgatory, God willing. I also like to think that I will be welcomed by all my previous friends and family that have gone before me, as well as my guardian angel, when I finally enter Heaven. I do not know if I will be able to look upon Jesus until after the purification, but I suppose He is allowed to visit people in Purgatory…

 

[ChurchSoldier]

9 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent (from the Lord) to be pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 2Cor5:9-10

Well, we know this happens, and as such will see Christ.

 

[Richard_White]

Upon death, we will see Jesus face-to-face for our Particular Judgment. I believe that, in accordance with some of the visions of the saints, our seeing Jesus as He is will cause our souls to act accordingly to our lives. In other words, if our souls are conscious of mortal sin, they will cast themselves into Hell. If they are conscious of venial sin or imperfections on the soul, they will go to Purgatory. And if they are conscious of a pure heart and soul, then the soul will go with Jesus to Heaven.

May God bless us all abundantly and forever!

 

[thistle]

I imagine I will spend some time in Purgatory, God willing. I also like to think that I will be welcomed by all my previous friends and family that have gone before me, as well as my guardian angel, when I finally enter Heaven. I do not know if I will be able to look upon Jesus until after the purification, but I suppose He is allowed to visit people in Purgatory…

Sorry but what you say is against Church teaching. Nobody but God knows who is saved. You cannot say in advance that you will be saved.
You can pray you will die in a state of grace and be saved but you are not assured of being saved and do not know that you will be saved.
Salvation assurance is heresy.

 

[Crown_of_Stars]

In other words, if our souls are conscious of mortal sin, they will cast themselves into Hell.

This sounds terrifying. I wouldn’t want to go to Hell in the first place, but given the choice, I would rather I was cast there rather than casting myself. It’s like someone else stabbing you with a knife, or stabbing yourself. You just can’t do it yourself.

 

[FreeEver]

"Do not despair, one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume, one of the thieves was damned. "
-St Augustine

From St. Faustina’s Diary –
“God’s mercy sometimes touches the sinner at the last moment in a wondrous and mysterious way. Outwardly, it seems as if everything were lost, but it is not so. The soul, illumined by a ray of God’s powerful final grace, turns to God in the last moment with such a power of love that, in an instant, it receives from God absolution of sins and remission of punishment, while outwardly it shows no sign either of repentance or of contrition, because souls [at that stage] no longer react to external things. Oh, how beyond comprehension is God’s mercy! But - horror! - There are also souls who voluntarily and consciously reject and scorn this grace! Although a person is at the point of death, the merciful God gives the soul that interior vivid moment, so that if the soul is willing, it has the possibility of returning to God. But sometimes, the obduracy in souls is so great that consciously they choose hell; they [thus] make useless all the prayers that other souls offer to God for them and even the efforts of God Himself…” (Diary, 1698).

God Bless and Peace to all.