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Choose a topic from Part 3 Suppl:

• Penance (Continued)
• Extreme Unction
• Order (Holy Orders)
• Matrimony
• The General Resurrection
  • 69. The Place of Departed Souls
  • 70. Quality of a Separated Soul
  • 71. Suffrages for the Dead
  • 72. Prayers to the Saints
  • 73. Signs Preceding General Resurrection and Judgement
  • 74. The Fire of Judgment Day
  • 75. The Resurrection of the Body
  • 76. The Cause of the Resurrection of the Body
  • 77. Time and Manner of the Resurrection of the Body
  • 78. The Starting Point of the Bodily Resurrection
  • 79. The Risen Body
  • 80. The Integrity of the Risen Body
  • 81. The Quality of Those Risen from the Dead
  • 82. The Impassibility of Risen Bodies
  • 83. The Subtlety of Risen Bodies
  • 84. The Agility of Risen Bodies
  • 85. The Clarity of Risen Bodies
  • 86. The Risen Bodies of the Damned
• The Last Things
• Appendix I (The Innocents in Limbo)
• Appendix II (Two Notes on Purgatory)

76. The Cause of the Resurrection of the Body

Christ from the dead shall quicken also your mortalbodies." We are to rise in the likeness of the Resurrection ofour Lord, and indeed in virtue of that Resurrection. God is thecause of the resurrection of bodies; the Resurrection of Christ canbe called the quasi-instrumental cause through which God will raiseus up.

1. It was the divinity or Godhead of Christ (which is one in thethree divine Persons of the Blessed Trinity), which raised him fromthe dead. And scripture says (Rom. 8:11): "He that raised upJesus

2. On the last day, the appearance of Christ in his glorywill summon all men to resurrection and judgment. His voice will beas the trumpet to rouse and summon all.

3. The angels will come with the Judge, ministering tohim, and preparing for the bodily resurrection of mankind. But theactual reuniting of souls and bodies will not be done by angels,but will be the immediate work of God himself.

"The greatest glory we can give to God is to do his will in everything."
St Alphonsus de Liguori

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"O Lord, my God, who will seek you with simple and pure love, and not find that you are all one can desire, for you show yourself first and go out to meet those who seek you? "
St John of the Cross, OCD - Doctor of the Church

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"God gives us some things, as the beginning of faith, even when we do not pray. Other things, such as perseverance, he has only provided for those who pray."
St Augustine

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