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Choose a topic from Part 3 Suppl:

• Penance (Continued)
• Extreme Unction
• Order (Holy Orders)
• Matrimony
• The General Resurrection
  • 69. The Place of Departed Souls
  • 70. Quality of a Separated Soul
  • 71. Suffrages for the Dead
  • 72. Prayers to the Saints
  • 73. Signs Preceding General Resurrection and Judgement
  • 74. The Fire of Judgment Day
  • 75. The Resurrection of the Body
  • 76. The Cause of the Resurrection of the Body
  • 77. Time and Manner of the Resurrection of the Body
  • 78. The Starting Point of the Bodily Resurrection
  • 79. The Risen Body
  • 80. The Integrity of the Risen Body
  • 81. The Quality of Those Risen from the Dead
  • 82. The Impassibility of Risen Bodies
  • 83. The Subtlety of Risen Bodies
  • 84. The Agility of Risen Bodies
  • 85. The Clarity of Risen Bodies
  • 86. The Risen Bodies of the Damned
• The Last Things
• Appendix I (The Innocents in Limbo)
• Appendix II (Two Notes on Purgatory)

81. The Quality of Those Risen from the Dead

1. Those who rise will not have the imperfections ofimmaturity or old age. All will rise in the most perfect stage ofhuman nature, which is the age of youth; that is, of youth justarrived at maturity and full development.

2. However, all arisen bodies will not be the same insize. Variety on this point is no defect in nature. We know onlythat risen bodies will not be deficient in any natural perfection.Each person's body will be of the size most suitable tohim.

3. Human beings, then, will rise with perfect bodies, allin full maturity, none with infantile or childish imperfection,none bent with age. They will be perfect men and perfect women,with bodies of suitable size perfectly proportioned.

4. Risen bodies will not require the things they needed onearth to sustain them, preserve them, and move them to developmentor further perfection. Risen bodies will not eat, or drink, orsleep, or beget offspring, or feel the pull of fleshly appetites orpassions.

"A person who rails at God in adversity, suffers without merit; moreover by his lack of resignation he adds to his punishment in the next life and experiences greater disquietude of mind in this life."
St Alphonsus de Liguori

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"God speaks to us without ceasing by his good inspirations."
The Cure D'Ars

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"God commands not impossibilities, but by commanding he suggests to you to do what you can, to ask for what is beyond your strength; and he helps you, that you may be able."
St Augustine

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