text: I appreciate your comment.
  At the moment of death we will all find ourselves solus cum solo, alone with him who is alone.
  We will be judged by how well we believed in and embraced his gospel, his good news, and to what extent we lived it out in this world, but to do these things means to be fearless in teaching the truth both in season and out of season.
  Were we kind to the poor and the marginalized?
  Did we give to those in need not only out of our abundance but out of our substance?
  Did we speak the truth to the extent that both our hearts and the hearts of those who heard us were changed?
  We live in a time of timidity in the Church in which the pastoral is set in opposition to the doctrinal. 
  Our Lord never intended it to be so. As was true with John the Baptist and the Apostles, Jesus was never afraid to speak a truth that would cut to the heart of his listeners.
  God does not tolerate sin and we must be diligent in rooting sin out of our own lives, giving that strength to others.