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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)

84. The Agility of Risen Bodies

1. The glorified body will be able to move with thequickness of thought from place to place under the direction of thesoul and the command of the free will. This quality of the risenbody is called agility.

2. The risen body in heaven will move about. Scripturesays (Isa. 40:31): "They shall run and not be weary"; and(Wisd. 3:7), "[The just] shall run to and fro like sparksamong the reeds." But this swift and untiring movement willnot deprive the just of the beatific vision or diminish theirhappiness.

3. The movement of the glorified body will not be strictlyinstantaneous; it will take a moment of time, yet this moment willbe so short as to be imperceptible.

"It is vanity to be concerned with the present only and not to make provision for things to come."
Thomas á Kempis

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"A person who rails at God in adversity, suffers without merit; moreover by his lack of resignation he adds to his punishment in the next life and experiences greater disquietude of mind in this life."
St Alphonsus de Liguori

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"He who wishes to be perfectly obeyed, should give but few orders."
St Philip Neri

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