And yet, having been made as body and soul, we are also creatures of sense and imagination. This should not surprise us, for we walk by faith and not by sight. Yet, while we know these things in faith, we may not always find it easy to picture what awaits us. We know, in faith, that we are destined either for heaven, eternal union with God and the fulfillment of all our hopes… or else eternal separation from God, which is hell. Yet, what comes after that death is not always easy to imagine. That we will meet our own end someday is one of the few certainties in an uncertain life. At the same time, the readings at Mass directed our eyes toward our own deaths, and to the Second Coming. In the month of November, we remembered especially the dead, praying for the souls of the faithful departed.
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