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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)

81. The Quality of Those Risen from the Dead

1. Those who rise will not have the imperfections ofimmaturity or old age. All will rise in the most perfect stage ofhuman nature, which is the age of youth; that is, of youth justarrived at maturity and full development.

2. However, all arisen bodies will not be the same insize. Variety on this point is no defect in nature. We know onlythat risen bodies will not be deficient in any natural perfection.Each person's body will be of the size most suitable tohim.

3. Human beings, then, will rise with perfect bodies, allin full maturity, none with infantile or childish imperfection,none bent with age. They will be perfect men and perfect women,with bodies of suitable size perfectly proportioned.

4. Risen bodies will not require the things they needed onearth to sustain them, preserve them, and move them to developmentor further perfection. Risen bodies will not eat, or drink, orsleep, or beget offspring, or feel the pull of fleshly appetites orpassions.

"The essence of perfection is to embrace the will of God in all things, prosperous or adverse. In prosperity, even sinners find it easy to unite themselves to the divine will; but it takes saints to unite themselves to God's will when things go wrong and are painful to self-love. Our conduct in such instances is the measure of our love of God."
St Alphonsus de Liguori

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"Men should often renew their good resolutions, and not lose heart because they are tempted against them."
St Philip Neri

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"Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts."
St Philip Neri

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