What are the rewards or punishments appointed for men after the particular judgment?
–The rewards or punishments appointed for men after the particular judgment are heaven, purgatory, or hell. “With what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you” (Matt. 7:2). As we have loved God and our fellow-men during life, so we shall be given the proper reward or punishment. • He who dies in his baptismal innocence, or after having fully satisfied for all the sins he committed, will be sent at once to heaven. The just will enter into everlasting life (Matt. 25:46). Only those souls enter heaven who are free from all sin, and from the penalty due to sins which have been forgiven. Nothing defiled can enter heaven (Apoc. 21:27). • He who dies in the state of grace, but is in venial sin, or has not fully atoned for the temporal punishment due his forgiven sins, will be sent for a time to purgatory. The souls in purgatory are saints, because they are sure of going to heaven. In purgatory they cannot commit any more sin, not even the slightest. They only long for God. • He who
