Why Is Our Eternal Destiny Determined by Our State at the Moment of Death?

How being-in-time, God's mercy, and the opportunity of a final and (at last!) total gift of oneself work together

For a thousand years now—ever since St. Odilo of Cluny (c. 962–1049) introduced the custom of All Souls’ Day at the great monastery of Cluny, whence it quickly spread—the Latin Church has chosen this day to remember and pray for the Christian souls that have “gone before us with the sign of faith,” for whom we implore “a place of refreshment, light, and…