Judgment, Last, Particular
See also: Resurrection, The Resurrected.
The Last Judgment[3] will follow the resurrection of all the dead, "of the righteous and of the sinners"[4]. It will be "the hour when those who lie in the tomb will come out at the call of the voice of the Son of Man; those who have done Good will rise to life, those who have done evil to damnation"[5].
Then Christ "will come in his glory, escorted by all the Angels (...). Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people from one another, just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right, and the goats on his left (...). And they will go away, the latter to eternal punishment, and the righteous to eternal life."[6] Purgatory will disappear and its remaining inhabitants will join Paradise.
In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"[edit | edit source]
The Last Judgment[edit | edit source]
- The Earth will expel from its bowels all the bones of men who have died on it and have been buried in its mud, from Adam until the last man. And then will come the resurrection of the dead, for the great and supreme judgment after which, like a Sodom apple, the world will empty itself to become nothingness, and that will be the end of the firmament with its stars.[7]
- (If Jesus had favored Judas by saving him from Hell "forcefully"): "All could say to me, when I come to separate the lambs from the goats, to bless the first and to curse, yes, to curse the second, to curse because then there will be no more redemption, but glory or condemnation, to curse them again after having already cursed them at their death and their particular judgment…
"Indeed man, you know it because you have heard me say it hundreds and thousands of times, man can be saved as long as his life lasts, until his last breath. It only takes a moment, a thousandth of a minute, for everything to be decided between the Soul and God, for it to ask for forgiveness and obtain absolution... All, I said, all these damned could say to me: "Why did you not attach us to the Good, as you did for Judas?" And they would be right."[8] - And I will leave what is necessary so that those who come in the Future can become the good grain. If they do not want it, at the end of the world, my Angels will separate the weeds from the good grain. Then it will be the eternal Day of God alone. For now, in the world, it is the day of God and Satan.[9]
- The Last Judgment[10]
The Particular Judgment[edit | edit source]
- It is based on their acts of faith, charity, and justice, that the lambs will be separated from the goats. And this will continue even after I am no longer here, but when my Church will be through the centuries until the end of the world. The first judgment of the human masses will be carried out in the world, where men act freely, having before them the Good and Evil, the Truth and Falsehood.[11]
- God gives the righteous an immediate reward, to those who have repented mercy and time to atone to reach the reward through their repentance and expiation, and He gives curse and punishment to the one who tramples on love with the impenitence that follows sin. To each He gives what belongs to him.[12]
- Jesus speaks to Lazarus after He resurrected him: The Particular Judgment. The Soul presents itself to God, and God judges it. - That is how it is. And the judgment of God is just and inviolable, and has infinite value. If the judged Soul is mortally guilty, it becomes a damned Soul. If it is slightly guilty, it is sent to Purgatory. If it is just, it goes to the Peace of Limbo waiting for me to open the gates of Heaven. So I recalled your spirit after it was already judged by God. If you had been a damned, I could not have recalled you to life because in doing so I would have canceled the judgment of my Father. For the damned, there is no change anymore. They are judged forever".[13]
- The Particular Judgment.[14]
In other works of Maria Valtorta[edit | edit source]
The Notebooks of 1944[edit | edit source]
- Vision and catechesis of January 29, 1944[15]: Vision of the final resurrection and comments from Jesus.
The Notebooks from 1945 to 1950[edit | edit source]
- Catechesis of January 28, 1947: At the atomic moment of the particular judgment, the Soul has time to understand what it did not want to understand during its life on earth, ... it also has time to take with it to its place of expiation or eternal damnation the memory that will ignite flames of love for eternal Blessing in it, or the torture of punishment by the obsessive memory of the lost Good ... The creation of the Soul and the particular judgment are the two atomic instants during which the Souls of the children of man know God intellectually, in the just measure that is enough to give them an instrument to strive towards their Good barely glimpsed, but remained inscribed in their substance (p. 326, 327)
- Catechesis of December 1, 1947: Paul did not err by some misinterpretation of my words ([16]-[17]), thinking that the Day of God was near, just as you do not err, you, my little John. Like all who the Spirit of the Spirit who is God fills and raises to the heavens of vision, he sees with the eyes of God, that is to say in an eternal present. (p. 440)
In fundamental Christian texts[edit | edit source]
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church[edit | edit source]
- The New Testament also affirms several times the immediate recompense after death of each person according to their works and faith.[18] Each person receives in their immortal Soul their eternal recompense at death in a particular judgment that refers their life to Christ, either through a Purification, or to enter immediately the bliss of heaven, or to be damned immediately forever. At the end of our life, we will be judged on love[19]