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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

“TO CONFORM TO GOD’S PLANS”

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“If you conform to God’s plans, He will make a saint of you.” (St. Paul of the Cross)

So it really isn’t that hard, dear Father, if St. Paul of the Cross tells us so. He must have known. “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.” (Matt. 6:33) So it is written in Holy Scripture through the mouth of Your Son. So, dear Father, You have a plan for our lives. Then we don’t really need to make our own plans; we just need to follow You. What a burden that saves us from— all those plans and considerations that we often discard, or that don’t quite come to fruition, or even turn into illusions. Perhaps they do come to fruition, but they don’t deliver what they promise because they aren’t Your plans for us.

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In Biblical Meditations

The resurrection of the body (III)

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We have already heard about the bodily resurrection from the dead in our previous reflections and have come to appreciate what a wonderful path God has planned for us. This led us to discuss the incorruptibility of the resurrected body. Once the Lord has reunited the believer’s soul and body, they will be able to live forever in the presence of God.

Our future body possesses four wonderful characteristics, as the Roman Catechism of Pius V teaches. It states:

“In addition to this, the bodies of the risen Saints will be distinguished by certain transcendent endowments, which will ennoble them far beyond their former condition. Among these endowments four are specially mentioned by the Fathers, which they infer from the doctrine of St. Paul, and which are called gifts.

The first endowment or gift is impassibility, which shall place them beyond the reach of suffering anything disagreeable or of being affected by pain or inconvenience of any sort. Neither the piercing severity of cold, nor the glowing intensity of heat, nor the impetuosity of waters can hurt them. It is sown, says the Apostle, in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption. (1 Cor. 15:42). This quality the Schoolmen call impassibility, not incorruption, in order to distinguish it as a property peculiar to a glorified body. The bodies of the damned, though incorruptible, will not be impassible; they will be capable of experiencing heat and cold and of suffering various afflictions.

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