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#MyCatholicFaith | 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐎 𝐖𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐁𝐘 “𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆”?
𝗕𝘆 “𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴” 𝘄𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆.
In that life, the just will dwell in heaven with God, in perfect and everlasting happiness. Heaven is both a place and a state: Our Lord Jesus Christ came down from heaven, and ascended into it. Heavem is a state: even when the Blessed Virgin Mary, for example, appears to men, she does not leave heaven, which she carries with her, in the state of her soul.
This is why the good and holy have a foretaste of heaven even here on earth, in the peace and joy they possess in their hearts. “And I saw the holy city. New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Behold the dwelling of God with men, and he will dwell with them. And they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God'” (Apoc. 21:2-3).
𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻? —Those are rewarded in heaven who died in the state of grace and have been purified in purgatory, if necessary, from all venial sin and all debt of temporal punishment; they see God face-to-face, and share forever in His glory and happiness.
𝗕𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀!
