![]() ![]() It is our meeting with the Father which takes place in the risen Christ through the communion of the Holy Spirit," the Pope said.ġ. Heaven "is neither an abstraction not a physical place in the clouds, but a living, personal relationship with the Holy Trinity. Heaven as the fullness of communion with God was the theme of the Holy Father's catechesis at the General Audience of 21 July 1999. ![]() "Incorporeal things are not in place after a manner known and familiar to us, in which way we say that bodies are properly in place but they are in place after a manner befitting spiritual substances, a manner that cannot be fully manifest to us." In this he is applying the philosophical categories used by the Church in her theology and saying what St. ![]() This language of place is, according to the Pope, inadequate to describe the realities involved, since it is tied to the temporal order in which this world and we exist. In three controversial Wednesday Audiences, Pope John Paul II pointed out that the essential characteristic of heaven, hell or purgatory is that they are states of being of a spirit (angel/demon) or human soul, rather than places, as commonly perceived and represented in human language. ![]()
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