We reflect on eternal life and we do on the Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, who both wanted to Heaven and live committed to doing good on earth . For a Christian, the things of Heaven can not be dissociated from the land and vice versa, then I have no qualms if all the "great pleasure" to continue talking about the Heaven on my blog.
The saints, in particular, St. Teresa of the Child Jesus, have wished to Heaven, above all as the ultimate manifestation Glory of God, which work in this world. As the final triumph of the Kingdom of God and His love. There has been a desire to "selfish" in the sense of desire only happiness for oneself, but his desire has been the deepest sample of his love for God. Heaven have wanted as a synonym for God, to be with him, watching and loving face to face. It is imperative, therefore, a personal view of the Christian life. And
first aspect is that a derivative of thinking about eternal life is the permanence of the self, for our Christian faith we describe it as an interpersonal communion between people, the Three Divine Persons and my human. The Christian can not therefore accept any form of pantheism or "new age" does not respond to the most primary aspiration of self-preservation (staying "I"), speaking of the dissolution of the human soul in a "super-consciousness." Nor can associate with faith in Christ, belief in reincarnation. Belief in reincarnation is that you are not son of God, since it is not merely a body wrap of your soul, but part of your identity, identity that would lose every time you "adopt" a new life, form, body etc.
And together with the permanence of "I" the promise of Eternal Bliss confirms the improvement of their own poverty. God created us for something infinitely superior to what we are today and therefore, Augustine uttered the famous sentence that begins his Confessions: "We did, Lord, for you and our hearts are restless until they rest in you."
Christian understanding of eternal life is the most divine and more human than we imagine. Responds to the plan of salvation in Christ, being God and man, shows us that Heaven is "Our participation in the divine life of him who wanted to share with us our condition human " (prayer recited by the priest secretly in the offertory of the Mass). It is not "our" Heaven as "just divine" who forgets our body, or as only human and material that enhances the pleasures of this world forever imagining a place with cool rivers, wine and beautiful women (cf. Qur'an 44 50). St. Paul says "no eye has seen, nor ear heard what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Cor 2, 9).
Finally, St. Therese of Lisieux, with its appeal: "I want your will perfectly meet and achieve the degree of glory you me You have prepared your kingdom " reminds us a truth that few have questioned and bag it up for a few weeks ago, a comment to this blog post asking for her: the degrees of glory in Heaven.
difficult to understand the immediate and intuitive vision of God (Being quite simple) can support varying degrees, but well defined by the Council of Florence (Dz 693): "intueri Trinuma clare et ipsum unum Deum, sicuti est, tamen pro Diversitate meritorum perfectius alium alio. " And God, though the utmost simplicity, is the infinite perfection and, thus, would have created intellect, to embrace an infinite capacity, which is inconsistent with his status "created." The Scholastics sought to combine simplicity and infinite perfection of God by saying that in the beatific vision sees all God (just as if you can not see just a part), but not completely (since it is inexhaustible intelligibility .) However, this diversity of intensity of vision, which corresponds to the degree of love that man has achieved during his earthly life and "light of glory" that is granted, not to say that not every blessed fully satisfied and happy.
Again Santa Teresita (and the Saints make it easy to understand that it is difficult) gives us light by this simple anecdote, Story of a Soul (Ch 2, 17):
my confidence and resolve all my doubts. Once I expressed my surprise at the fact that God does not reward in heaven with glory as all elected and gave him to understand my fear that not all were happy. Paulina
So I sent for the big daddy's glass and placing next to mine he was little I said to fill with water.
Once done, I asked which of the two was fuller. I told him that was so full one as the other and it was impossible to put more water in any of them as not fit. My dear little mother
then made me realize that in heaven God will give glory to your chosen so how much would be able to receive and thus the last of them would have nothing to envy to the first.
So I sent for the big daddy's glass and placing next to mine he was little I said to fill with water.
Once done, I asked which of the two was fuller. I told him that was so full one as the other and it was impossible to put more water in any of them as not fit. My dear little mother
then made me realize that in heaven God will give glory to your chosen so how much would be able to receive and thus the last of them would have nothing to envy to the first.
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