Last Things First shows how taking a realistic look at death
can help you focus on life. How overcoming your natural fear about what
happens then can encourage you to make better choices now.
Here is what the Church teaches about:
The "last things": death, judgement, heaven, and hell
The Communion of Saints and prayers for -- and by -- the dead
The resurrection of all bodies -- including yours and your loved ones.
Understand the particulars about the sacrament of the Anointing of the
Sick, about the Catholic funeral liturgy, about the transition between this
temporal life, and the eternal life to come.
For more than 29 years, Regis J. Flaherty has worked in or with
Catholic cemetery organizations. He presently is the editor-in-chief of
Emmaus Road Publishing.