By Msgr. Charles Pope - In this last post we consider the role of the angels at the parousia (the second coming) and the glory that awaits those who have been faithful... The final chapters in the Cardinal’s book, on the eschaton (the last things) and the parousia, are particularly magnificent. I would like to distill them here, adding some material and reworking it just a bit. However, the assembling of the material is fundamentally his. I hope you will be stirred with as much joy and zeal in reading this as I was in preparing it.