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Catholic Word of the Day: HEAVEN, 11-02-09
CatholicReference.net ^ | 11-02-09 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

Posted on 11/02/2009 5:14:57 PM PST by Salvation

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HEAVEN

The place and condition of perfect supernatural happiness. This happiness consists essentially in the immediate vision and love of God, and secondarily in the knowledge, love, and enjoyment of creatures. Until the final resurrection, except for Christ and his Mother, only the souls of the just are in heaven. After the last day, the just will be in heaven in body and soul. Although the same God will be seen by all and enjoyed by all, not everyone will have the same degree of happiness. The depth of beatitude will depend on the measure of God's grace with which a person dies, and this in turn will be greatly conditioned by the merits that one earns during life on earth. Heaven is eternal because it will never cease. It is continuous because its joys never stop. It is communal because the happiness is shared with the angels and saints and the company of those who were known and loved on earth.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; History; Theology
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I nearly forgot this today!
1 posted on 11/02/2009 5:14:58 PM PST by Salvation
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To: JRandomFreeper; Allegra; SuziQ; BlackVeil; Straight Vermonter; Cronos; SumProVita; ...

Catholic Word of the Day – links will be provided later by another FReeper.

 

Book of Zechariah

Temple (biblical)

Capsula

Holy Mary

Anaphora

Diana of the Ephesians

Evangelism

Eucharistic Oblation

Last Judgment

Veneration of Images

Aggiornamento

Pectoral Cross

Dark Night of the Soul

Solitude

Domestic Prelate

Incense Boat

Clothing of Religious

Laity

Abraham’s Bosom

Embalming

Dowry

Roman Gradual

Socratic Method

Theism

Memorial

Petitions to the Holy See

Perfect Happiness

Litany of the Sacred Heart

Feeling

Pope

Legate a latere

Extraordinary Magisterium

Nepotism

Canonical Penance

Inherence

Ineffable

Refectory

Pascendi

Musicam sacram

Heaven

 

 

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2 posted on 11/02/2009 5:16:37 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Ohhhhhh, that's really nice to read on All Souls Day. Mother Teresa of Calcutta once wrote my husband and she suggested the readings of Fr. John Hardon. They were good buds it seems.:)
3 posted on 11/02/2009 5:29:25 PM PST by mlizzy ("It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: All
Earlier Catholic Words of the Day


Book of Zechariah

Temple

Capsula

Holy Mary

Anaphora

Diana of the Ephesians

Evangelism

Eucharistic Oblation

Last Judgment

Veneration of Images

Aggiornamento

Pectoral Cross

Dark Night of the Soul

Solitude

Domestic Prelate

Incense Boat

Clothing of Religious

Laity


Abraham’s Bosom


Embalming


Dowry


Roman Gradual


Socratic Method


Theism


Memorial

Petitions to the Holy See

Perfect Happiness

Litany of the Sacred Heart

Feeling

Pope

Legate a latere

Extraordinary Magisterium

Nepotism

Canonical Penance

Inherence

Ineffable

Refectory

Pascendi

Musicam sacram

Heaven



4 posted on 11/02/2009 6:14:06 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Salvation
Although the same God will be seen by all and enjoyed by all, not everyone will have the same degree of happiness. The depth of beatitude will depend on the measure of God's grace with which a person dies, and this in turn will be greatly conditioned by the merits that one earns during life on earth.

I've never even heard it suggested that some would have a "better" experience in heaven than others. Interesting.

5 posted on 11/02/2009 6:25:39 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Since merit is somewhat the cause of reward, rewards must needs be diversified, according as merits are diversified: for the intension or remission of a thing follows from the intension or remission of its cause. Now the merit of the aureole may be greater or lesser: wherefore the aureole may also be greater or lesser.

We must observe, however, that the merit of an aureole may be intensified in two ways: first, on the part of its cause, secondly on the part of the work. For there may happen to be two persons, one of whom, out of lesser charity, suffers greater torments of martyrdom, or is more constant in preaching, or again withdraws himself more from carnal pleasures. Accordingly, intension not of the aureole but of the aurea corresponds to the intension of merit derived from its root; while intension of the aureole corresponds to intension of merit derived from the kind of act. Consequently it is possible for one who merits less in martyrdom as to his essential reward, to receive a greater aureole for his martyrdom.

Article 13. Whether one person has an aureole more excellently than another person?


6 posted on 11/02/2009 6:53:26 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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