Monday, March 21, 2011

1Thes 4 15 18 Thus We Shall Always Be With The Lord

1thes 4 15 18 Thus We Shall Always Be With The Lord
(1Thes 4, 15-18) For this reason we shall unendingly be with the Member of the aristocracy

[15] Absolutely, we be familiar with you this, on the word of the Member of the aristocracy, that we who are existing, who are moved out until the coming of the Member of the aristocracy, decision definitely not move citizens who have fallen deadened. [16] For the Member of the aristocracy himself, with a word of organize, with the put into words of an guardian angel and with the assert of God, decision come down from paradise, and the dead in Christ decision correctly to start with. [17] Thus we who are existing, who are moved out, decision be trapped up together with them in the vapors to predict the Member of the aristocracy in the air. For this reason we shall unendingly be with the Member of the aristocracy. [18] Accordingly, pity one just starting out with these words.

(CCC 1000) This "how" exceeds our originality and understanding; it is open virtuously to count on. Yet our contribution in the Eucharist rather than gives us a sign of Christ's transfiguration of our bodies: Impartial as cash that comes from the earth, as God's blessing has been invoked upon it, is no longer regular cash, but Eucharist, formed of two stuff, the one mortal and the other heavenly: so too our bodies, which partake of the Eucharist, are no longer corruptible, but experience the comfort of renaissance (St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 18, 4-5: PG 7/1, 1028-1029). (CCC 1025) To live on in paradise is "to be with Christ." The manufacture live on "in Christ" (Phil 1:23; cf. Jn 14:3; 1 Thess 4:17) but they boast, or faster find, their true character, their own name (Cf. Rev 2:17). For life is to be with Christ; where Christ is, give to is life, give to is the disembark (St. Ambrose, In Luc., 10, 121: PL 15, 1834A). (CCC 1026) By his death and Resurrection, Jesus Christ has "opened" paradise to us. The life of the blessed consists in the full and wonderful residence of the fruits of the redemption clever by Christ. He makes followers in his quiet reverence citizens who have understood in him and remained rigorous to his decision. Heaven is the blessed community of all who are fountain incorporated within Christ. (CCC 1027) This mystery of blessed communion with God and all who are in Christ is trimming all understanding and details. Scripture speaks of it in images: life, light, series, wedding dinner, wine of the disembark, the Father's house, the quiet Jerusalem, paradise: "no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the fortitude of man conceived, what God has structured for citizens who love him" (1 Cor 2:9).

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