The General Judgement

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I recently heard a homily by Fr. Chad Ripperger about the Final Judgement. In it he mentioned that the judgement will actually take quite a very long time. He said it will be this way essentially because God will reveal the sins/good works of every single person who ever lived one at a time, and everyone will basically be sitting around waiting their turn.

Does anybody have ideas about this? Anyone heard this as well? Sources?
 
omgriley said:
I recently heard a homily by Fr. Chad Ripperger about the Final Judgement. In it he mentioned that the judgement will actually take quite a very long time. He said it will be this way essentially because God will reveal the sins/good works of every single person who ever lived one at a time, and everyone will basically be sitting around waiting their turn.

Does anybody have ideas about this? Anyone heard this as well? Sources?
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It is true. It will take a very, very long time for us to go through every single action by every single human being in all of history.

It’ll be a harrowing experience for the damned, but a wonderful one for those destined for Heaven.
 
omgriley said:
I recently heard a homily by Fr. Chad Ripperger about the Final Judgement. In it he mentioned that the judgement will actually take quite a very long time. He said it will be this way essentially because God will reveal the sins/good works of every single person who ever lived one at a time, and everyone will basically be sitting around waiting their turn.

Does anybody have ideas about this? Anyone heard this as well? Sources?
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I am very leery about this kind of talk.

Time is something which won’t exist at the Final Judgement.

I’m sure God is perfectly capable of revealing everything to everyone “at once” (yes, I know, there’s no such thing as “at once” if there’s no time).

I cannot imagine what good is served by telling people that we are going to have to “stand in line” for some undetermined amount of time while each one waits his turn.

What’s the point of telling people something like this?

We (clergy) should be telling people that all our sins, as well as our good, will be revealed and we will all be judged. However, personal musings or personal imagination about standing in some ethereal “waiting line” just serves no good purpose that I can see.

What next? Will someone be telling people that God will have some big number ticket machine like they use at the supermarket deli?

If I draw a high number, I sure hope I won’t need to use the bathroom. :rolleyes:
 
FrDavid96 said:
I cannot imagine what good is served by telling people that we are going to have to “stand in line” for some undetermined amount of time while each one waits his turn.
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Fr. David: Standing in line for a couple of eons, the ultimate definition of purgatory? I hate standing in line. It’s agony. :rolleyes::banghead:
 
If you want to know what will happen at the Last Judgement, look up Matthew 25.
 
Time, as we know it is not an issue in the “afterlife” because time is Powered by the entropy in our natural bodies, but then we will be spiritual bodies.

ICXC NIKA
 
omgriley said:
I recently heard a homily by Fr. Chad Ripperger about the Final Judgement. In it he mentioned that the judgement will actually take quite a very long time. He said it will be this way essentially because God will reveal the sins/good works of every single person who ever lived one at a time, and everyone will basically be sitting around waiting their turn.

Does anybody have ideas about this? Anyone heard this as well? Sources?
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Why does his version of the afterlife look like the DMV. Or any other government agency…

I think God is a little more advanced than taking a number at the deli…
 
GEddie said:
Time, as we know it is not an issue in the “afterlife” because time is Powered by the entropy in our natural bodies, but then we will be spiritual bodies.

ICXC NIKA
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:confused: We will have our bodies at the Last Judgement. Material bodies.
 
joeybaggz said:
Fr. David: Standing in line for a couple of eons, the ultimate definition of purgatory? I hate standing in line. It’s agony. :rolleyes::banghead:
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Feel free to skip over this part:

Maybe God will install a few snack bars (maybe some mobile hot dog stands, Kosher, of course) for us, or maybe some TV’s for us to watch while we’re standing around waiting.

If my line has a bar, I’ll order a martini. If it’s a good one, I’ll know I’m going to heaven. If the bartender forgets the olive, well…

Really, the more I think about this, the more it troubles me.

As one who preaches, I have to be very careful about interjecting my own personal musings into homilies that are supposed to be about the faith.

I do find it troubling to tell people that we’re going to have to stand around in line waiting for God to finally get to each one of us.

There’s no doubt that everything will be revealed at the End Time—yes, every single little thing. But I have a problem with telling people that God is going to make us all stand in a waiting line.
 
dshix said:
:confused: We will have our bodies at the Last Judgement. Material bodies.
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I’m pretty sure the earlier poster meant “resurrected bodies” by using the word “spiritual” and wasn’t trying to deny the resurrection of the body.
 
FrDavid96 said:
As one who preaches, I have to be very careful about interjecting my own personal musings into homilies that are supposed to be about the faith.

I do find it troubling to tell people that we’re going to have to stand around in line waiting for God to finally get to each one of us.

There’s no doubt that everything will be revealed at the End Time—yes, every single little thing. But I have a problem with telling people that God is going to make us all stand in a waiting line.
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I have listened to the Fr. Ripperger talk in question before, and I can assure you that it did not come off the way you seem to have taken it. The point which he made was that at the Last Judgement, every person’s actions will be revealed, in accordance with Divine Justice, and that this will probably take a very long time. He didn’t say a word about a “waiting line”.
 
FrDavid96 said:
I am very leery about this kind of talk.

Time is something which won’t exist at the Final Judgement.

I’m sure God is perfectly capable of revealing everything to everyone “at once” (yes, I know, there’s no such thing as “at once” if there’s no time).

I cannot imagine what good is served by telling people that we are going to have to “stand in line” for some undetermined amount of time while each one waits his turn.

What’s the point of telling people something like this?

We (clergy) should be telling people that all our sins, as well as our good, will be revealed and we will all be judged. However, personal musings or personal imagination about standing in some ethereal “waiting line” just serves no good purpose that I can see.

**What next? Will someone be telling people that God will have some big number ticket machine like they use at the supermarket deli?
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If I draw a high number, I sure hope I won’t need to use the bathroom. :rolleyes:
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LOL!!

I couldn’t help but laugh, Father! This part of your post struck me as being very funny! 😃

Seriously though, I appreciate your insight. Thank you. 🙂
 
Hmm, I have been dead for eons. My soul has been busy in Purgatory praying for the living.

Suddenly, the day of judgement is upon us. We get released from purgatory, reunited with our resurrected bodies. We get to see God, Angels, Saints, the new Jerusalem

We get to see the ocean of humanity, all resurrected, i imagine the disabled now abled.

And seriously, anyone is going to have angst about waiting for our turn with Our Lord?

I dont think so.

This smacks of the shite that prince of lies threads through the good stuff.

And for a clergy to be saying it…pray he sees how amazing this event will be in his life.

I am calling the good old Aussie ’ his dreaming ’ on this.

Fr David has wise words.
 
Even if we all had to wait in some huge line, even for years, it wouldnt matter, no one would have anywhere else to be.

More than likely though, everything that happens after we die, it will be NOTHING even remotely close to what we think it will be like.
 
dshix said:
I have listened to the Fr. Ripperger talk in question before, and I can assure you that it did not come off the way you seem to have taken it. The point which he made was that at the Last Judgement, every person’s actions will be revealed, in accordance with Divine Justice, and that this will probably take a very long time. He didn’t say a word about a “waiting line”.
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Yes. Father Ripperger says that according to the Fathers, the general judgement will take a long time. He doesn’t say which Church Fathers he is referencing.

He goes on to say that those who are saved will be filled with joy. They will be celebrating God’s justice and mercy. The saved will be enjoying their resurrected bodies, not impatiently waiting their turn, however, those who are damned will find the experience exhausting.
 
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