Choose a topic from Part 3 Suppl:
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.
"The supreme perfection of man in this life is to be so united to God that all his soul with all its faculties and powers are so gathered into the Lord God that he becomes one spirit with him, and remembers nothing except God, is aware of and recognises nothing but God, but with all his desires unified by the joy of love, he rests contentedly in the enjoyment of his Maker alone."
St Albert the Great
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"Whom do you seek, friend, if you seek not God? Seek him, find him, cleave to him; bind your will to his with bands of steel and you will live always at peace in this life and in the next."
St Alphonsus de Liguori
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"The Lord has always revealed to mortals the treasures of his wisdom and his spirit, but now that the face of evil bares itself more and more, so does the Lord bare his treasures more."
St John of the Cross, OCD - Doctor of the Church
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