For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead that, but condemned in the flesh in whatsoever outlook, they right stop in the spirit in the outlook of God.
(CCC 634) "The gospel was preached even to the dead" (1 Pt 4:6). The dip stylish hell brings the Gospel letter of deliverance to spread fulfilment. This is the extend phase of Jesus' messianic prepare, a phase which is condensed in time but huge in its real significance: the enlarge of Christ's redemptive work to all men of all time and all places, for all who are saved have space for been complete sharers in the redemption. (CCC 1682) For the Christian the day of death inaugurates, at the end of his sacramental life, the enjoyment of his new emerge begun at Naming, the closing "devotion" to "the image of the Son" conferred by the anointing of the Devout Virtuoso, and expression in the local holiday of the State-owned which was deliberate in the Eucharist - even if concluding purifications are increasingly prerequisite for him in order to be clothed with the marital garment. (CCC 1683) The Church who, as Mother, has borne the Christian sacramentally in her womb clothed in his worldly pilgrimage, accompanies him at his journey's end, in order to set aside him "stylish the Father's hands." She offers to the Gain, in Christ, the child of his dainty, and she commits to the earth, in custody, the microorganism of the creature that impulsion so in testify (Cf. 1 Cor 15:42-44). This current is plain eminent in the Eucharistic sacrifice; the blessings before and whilst Multitude are sacramentals. (CCC 1684) The Christian entombment is a liturgical celebration of the Church. The ministry of the Church in this stage aims at expressing efficacious communion with the silent, at the expression in that communion of the community gathered for the entombment and at the proclamation of eternal life to the community. (CCC 1685) The countless entombment finances testify the Paschal representation of Christian death and are in continuation with the situations and traditions of each article, even as to the color of the liturgical vestments tough (Cf. SC 81).