The rich man in Hell needed to do at least what the earthly physical could do. How much man thinks he knows in his profound ignorance. And how much we must become as trusting children, but not in knowledge.
As I drifted off to sleep last night I remembered that the Hebrew word for “glory” also means “heaviness”. So your text from Philippians serves as a good companion to the “natural”v.”spiritual” discussion of 1 Cor 15 and a corrective when our minds make”spiritual” all wispy and thin.
In a homily once a friar took us on a brief tripthrou0gh IHS’s encounter with Nicodemus who came to him by night. He said it was customary in the evenings to go up to the roof of the house to catch the cool breezes, and suggested that as IHS spoke of the Spirit, the breeze was stirring the leaves of the trees.
And certainly this year many of us have seen that not all breezes are gentle and pleasant. Many are ‘heavy’ enough to destroy buildings.
Enough of this thin aetherial Spirit (still small voices to the contrary notwithstanding)! The Glory of God is “heavy” enough to support all creation, and the glorious body for which we hope ... well, who can say? But maybe we should abandon Victorian ideas of unearthliness and take up a notion of things almost TOO real to fit in the physical world.