Posted on 03/28/2011 9:53:43 PM PDT by Salvation
If our sanctification is not fully complete when we die, what will the final purging be like (before we enter heaven)?
Claire’s answer to this question is at http://www.stillcatholic.com/CATHPurg.htm
BELOW, AUGUSTINE DISCUSSES THE MANY MANSIONS IN HEAVEN, AND HOW CHRISTIANS WITH GREATER MERIT (THOSE WHO LABOR HARDER WHILE ON EARTH) WILL HAVE GREATER ETERNAL GLORY THAN OTHERS IN HEAVEN (but all with any grace will go to heaven)
******************************************************************************************************************************A few more Bible verses on how we’ll be transformed in heaven:
“…it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.” [1 Jn 3:2]
“But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord” [2 Cor 3:18]
“Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped” [Is 35:5-10]
“For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also” [Mt 6:21]
“And night shall be no more. And they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten then. And they shall reign for ever and ever” [Rev. 22:3-5)
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St. Augustine of Hippo: Tractates on the Gospel of John
TRACTATE 67 (JOHN 14:1-3)
But why have we this that follows, "In my Father's house are many mansions," but that they were also in fear about themselves? And therein they might have heard the words, "Let not your heart be troubled." For, was there any of them that could be free from fear, when Peter, the most confident and forward of them all, was told, "The cock shall not crow till thou hast denied me thrice"? Considering themselves, therefore, beginning with Peter, as destined to perish, they had cause to be troubled: but when they now hear, "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you," they are revived from their trouble, made certain and confident that after all the perils of temptations they shall dwell with Christ in the presence of God. For, albeit one is stronger than another, one wiser than another, one more righteous than another, "in the Father's house there are many mansions;" none of them shall remain outside that house, where every one, according to his deserts, is to receive a mansion. All alike have that penny, which the householder orders to be given to all that have wrought in the vineyard, making no distinction therein between those who have labored less and those who have labored more: by which penny, of course, is signified eternal life, whereto no one any longer lives to a different length than others, since in eternity life has no diversity in its measure. But the many mansions point to the different grades of merit in that one eternal life. For there is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory; and so also the resurrection of the dead. The saints, like the stars in the sky, obtain in the kingdom different mansions of diverse degrees of brightness; but on account of that one penny no one is cut off from the kingdom; and God will be all in all in such a way, that, as God is love, love will bring it about that what is possessed by each will be common to all. For in this way every one really possesses it, when he loves to see in another what he has not himself. There will not, therefore, be any envying amid this diversity of brightness, since in all of them will be reigning the unity of love
(Source: Catholic Encyclopedia: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1701067.htm)
No more time and space in heaven:
“But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Pet 3:8)
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FOR MORE INFO ON HEAVEN, SEE
http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Homiletic/04-97/1/1.html (Our Life in Heaven)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/3543/heaven.htm
http://www.cin.org/users/james/ebooks/master/trent/tcreed12.htm (Trent on heaven)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07170a.htm (Catholic Encyclopedia on heaven)
http://www.cin.org/users/jgallegos/heaven.htm (Early Church Fathers on heaven & hell)
http://www.cin.org/users/james/ebooks/master/aquinas/acreed12.htm (Thomas Aquinas on heaven and hell)
http://www.cin.org/users/james/ebooks/master/baltimore/bcreed12.htm (Baltimore Catechism)
http://www.cin.org/users/james/ebooks/master/pius/pcreed12.htm (St. Pius X)
http://www.oldcatholic.com/saints.html (The Saints in Heaven Intercede for Us)
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a11.htm (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a12.htm#1042 (Catechism)
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c2a6.htm#659 (Jesus ascended into heaven)
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/most/getchap.cfm?WorkNum=212&ChapNum=24 (theologian William G. Most)
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Talking about heaven ping!
Its nice one provides a lots of information also give more data over topic.
Thanks, joe, Didn’t know you were Catholic or Orthodox.
Welcome.
HEAVEN: WHY ARE PEOPLE SO HAPPY THERE? [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
What Is Heaven Really Like? [Ecumenical]
When Was the Last Time You Meditated on Heaven? That Long?! Try This.
The Sinner's Guide - Ch 9. The Ninth Motive for Practicing Virtue: The Thought of Heaven
Pope speaks with priests from his diocese about Heaven and Hell
STUNG BY MOST VENOMOUS OF CREATURES, MAN SAYS HE ENCOUNTERED 'LIGHT' OF LORD'
A Brief Catechism for Adults - Lesson 9: Heaven
Heaven and hell seem to be forgotten
Imagine there's a heaven
Limbo and the Hope of Salvation
Catholic Caucus: The Resurrection of the Dead
Resurrection Means a Glorious Existence
Mar 12:25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
Luk 20:34 Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.
Luk 20:35 But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,
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Sorry, but does this has always left more questions than answers
In heaven belieif is that a person will have an intimate relationship/friendship with a spouse, but there will not be marriage in heaven.
Perhaps one was judged by God to be more worthy than the other. They won’t necessarily be together.
REVELAION 22:
3And there shall be No Curse any more; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him.
4And they shall see his face: and his name shall be on their foreheads.(Gee why do we do the sign of the cross there when the Gospel's read during Mass-Holy Spirit inspired indeed!!)
5And night shall be no more: and they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten them, and they shall reign for ever and ever.
No more Light but GOD. What an awesome GOD!!!!
Praise Jesus!!! Amen!
Even though spouses may be in different mansions in heaven, each spouse will be perfectly happy where he or she is. There is no jealousy in heaven.
HEAVEN: WHY ARE PEOPLE SO HAPPY THERE?
No taxes?
It is a glorious imagining, isn’t it?
I think about the glorious mysteries and how there was so much light around the Resurrection — the angels, etc.
And Mary Magdalene did not recognize Christ, because he had already received his glorified body.
Probalby my most favorite (can you have a most favorite? LOL!) description of Easter Sunday is the Road to Emmaus story and how the two disciples did not recognize Christ. That is until he broke bread with them and disappeared into the bread! At least, that’s my take on it. Totally a Eucharistic story.
Because Rich Little isn’t dead yet?
LOL! Could be one reason!
The breaking of the Bread is a great moment. Yes!
Did you read the article about the reuniting of bodies with souls at the Last Judgmenet?
Why are people happy in Heaven?
You have to ask?
No pain~~~~~~~
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