St. Peter At the Pearly Gates
When you die, you are not going to meet St. Peter at the pearly gates. Upon death you will face any Church Anathemas and Church absolutions from sins, that you encountered in life, which will assist you in or lock you out, of heaven.
Jesus blew the Holy Spirit on His twelve Apostles and swore that He will not forgive in heaven anyone whom His Apostles, (and their Successors), call upon Him to bind to sin. Jesus lips proclaiming sinners bound to their sins in heaven is described as a two edged sword coming out of Jesus' mouth, with which to slay the wicked. Jesus, thus, has armed His Apostles, whom are represented in our Pope and Bishops of today, with the spiritual death weapon, the sword of His mouth, which is present in His Church as Church Anathema. Jesus wills His Apostles to draw His weapon and wield it to protect His Bride, the Church.
Jesus also swore to His Apostles that anyone whom they call upon Him to loost from their sins, He will do so from heaven. This is present in His Church as the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Jesus wills His Apostles to sheppard, guide and protect His flock using the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’, which is Jesus' Power to bind and loost sins, which is Church anathema and the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
One person put to physical death by American Capital Punishment, looses 20, 40, 60, or, at most, 90 years of physical life. One person put to spiritual death by the sword of Christ’s mouth, Church anathema, looses more life, (eternal life), than the combined years of physical life cut short from all the physical death Capital Punishments, wars, and pestilence, inflicted on the whole of mankind, from the beginning of time. In other words, Church Anathema Capital Punishment, which is Jesus’ lips binding a sinner or sinners to their sins, is an infinitely deadlier punishment than American physical death Capital Punishment, and both physical and spiritual death Capital Punishments are deployed to protect the body of people.
So LivingWordUnity, I see it as better to start out explaining, spiritual death Church Anathema, which is clearly defined by the Church, and Jesus, and infinitly deadlier. Then go on to explain the far less deadly form of physical death Capital Punishment, which America uses to also protect the body of her people.
ANATHEMA
In passing this sentence,
the pontiff is vested in amice, stole, and a violet cope, wearing his mitre, and assisted by twelve priests clad in their surplices and holding lighted candles. He takes his seat in front of the altar or in some other suitable place, amid pronounces
the formula of anathema which ends with these words:
Wherefore in the name of God the All-powerful, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, of the Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and of all the saints, in virtue of the power which has been given us of binding and loosing in Heaven and on earth, we deprive N-- himself and all his accomplices and all his abettors of the Communion of the Body and Blood of our Lord, we separate him from the society of all Christians, we exclude him from the bosom of our Holy Mother the Church in Heaven and on earth, we declare him excommunicated and anathematized and we judge him condemned to eternal fire with Satan and his angels and all the reprobate , so long as he will not burst the fetters of the demon, do penance and satisfy the Church; we deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the day of judgment."...
...He who dares to despise our decision, let him be stricken with anathema maranatha, i.e. may he be damned at the coming of the Lord, may he have his place with Judas Iscariot, he and his companions.
Quoted from:
New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia - Anathema
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Anathema