Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
In first century Judaism, there were many views concerning what happened to people after they died. Following a very venerable tradition, some said that death was the end, that the dead simply returned to the dust of the earth from which they came. Others maintained that the righteous dead would rise at the close of the age. Still others thought that the souls of the just went to live with God after the demise of their bodies. There were even some who believed in a kind of reincarnation.
Editor’s note: To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we remember one of the Diocese of Charlotte’s many Irish roots – that of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, sisters who came from Ireland and England and established Pennybyrn at Maryfield in High Point.