Daily Meditation: Saturday, November 2, 2002

If the Church has instituted what is referred to as 'the …

11/02/2002

If the Church has instituted what is referred to as 'the last sacraments' or 'the extreme unction' it is because the moment at which an individual leaves the earth for the other world is of vital importance and it wants to prepare Christians for the long journey they are about to undertake. The priest or pastor tries to bring them back to the fundamental issues as he explains to them it is time to look back at their life, to take stock of their errors, to repent, and to find within them the bond that unites them with the Creator. Some will think it is a little late. Yes, there is no doubt that it is a little late, but not too late. Because those who leave their physical body without having prepared themselves for it, without having the faintest notion of life after death, of divine Justice, subsequently suffer greatly because they roam the dark regions of the beyond without understanding what is happening to them. It is terrible to keep human beings in the mistaken conviction that there is nothing after death. Under the pretext of freeing them from absurd beliefs, they are being prepared trials in the other world that are even more terrible than those they have had to suffer on earth.