Choose a topic from Part 3 Suppl:
1. The bodies of all men will rise in natural perfectionwithout deficiency or defect. But the bodies of the damned willlack the qualities of the glorified bodies: agility, clarity,subtlety, impassibility.
2. The bodies of the damned will not be corruptible.Scripture says (Apoc. 9:6): "Men shall seek death and shallnot find it, and they shall desire to die and death shall fly fromthem."
3. As noted, the bodies of the damned will be passible,that is, capable of enduring suffering. Retribution must come toman, body and soul. And punishment of body involvespassibility.
"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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"Obedience is a short cut to perfection."
St Philip Neri
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"Men should often renew their good resolutions, and not lose heart because they are tempted against them."
St Philip Neri
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