The Four Last Things

St. Benedict sums up the spiritual necessity of the Four Last Things in his chapter “What Are the Instruments of Good Works”:

To have wholesome fear of the day of judgment.
With fear to shrink from hell.
To long for eternal life with all spiritual desire.
To have the expectation of death daily before one’s eyes.

Kennedy Hall

Death
Judgment
Heaven
Hell

Nathaniel Richards

That Which Abides: The End of All Things and That Which Lasts

Jeremiah Bannister

To Live (And Die) Beneath the Waves

Timothy S. Flanders

The World Fears Death, But Catholics Must Remember It
Fear of Judgment is the Way of the Saints
Even Hell Points to God’s Mercy
A Reflection on the Glory of Paradise