Anonymous asked:
Is it true that the virgin mary and saint michael bring people up to heaven when they die?
Good question! I hadn’t heard that. But then I haven’t died yet either. :-)
Seriously, though, we’re not told much about the details of the more “technical” aspects of how we go to the afterlife. In part probably because we wouldn’t understand it (they’re things that we can’t see or touch or imagine well) and also because we would probably get the wrong idea anyway (or get scared, or worse).
Now we certainly do pray in the Hail Mary, “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.” So we’re invoking her prayers but we’re not hearing anything about her accompanying the soul “in transit.”
Then, too, we will definitely share Heaven with Mary and St. Michael and all the saints! To read what we can in fact say with certainty, check out #1020-1050 of the Catechism.
God bless you!
- Father Shane
Quote of the Month
I am created to do something or to be something for which no one else is created; I have a place in God’s counsels, in God’s world, which no one else has; whether I be rich or poor, despised or esteemed by man, God knows me and calls me by my name.
God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another.
I have my mission — I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next…
Somehow I am necessary for his purposes, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his — if indeed, I fail, he can raise another, as he could make the stones children of Abraham.
Yet I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.
He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do his work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep his commandments and serve him in my calling.
Therefore I will trust him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away.
Blessed John Cardinal Newman