purgatory: heaven soul, but as it were translucent, so that the soul is only the brighter for the body it indwells. And similarly our Lady is bodily present too — so says the doctrine of the Assumption. But in the normal course of God’s providence, the souls in Heaven must wait for the Last Day to be reunited to their bodies. For there is a Last Day. As there is an end to every man’s term upon earth, so there will one day be an end to the term upon earth of the human race. When the Mystical Body of Christ shall have grown to its full stature — “unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ” — the human race will have achieved its purpose as a race. All the men who are to be incorporated with Christ — built into His body — will have been thus incorporated, and all will be completely at one with Him. Then will come the end of the world and the General Judgment. Christ will judge the whole world — all men will be in their place for all men to see — and the whole immense plan of God will be seen as a thing perfectly achieved. The bodies of men — glorified, as Christ’s is — will be reunited with their souls : and every man — body and soul — will be for ever established in joy or woe. There roughly is the map. If it is a good map, a well-drawn map, then one should be able to find one’s bearings by it — to find where one stands in 143