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Sacred Scripture and Catholic theology teaches
that our glorified resurrected bodies will experience four properties as an
outflow of the beatified soul enjoying the vision of God's essence:
1) Impassibility - the glorified body will no
longer suffer physical sickness or death, as Saint Paul teaches regarding the
glorified body in 1 Corinthians 15:42, "It is sown in corruption, it shall rise
in incorruption."
2) Subtlety meaning that we will have a
spiritualized nature in the sense of a spiritual body as did our Lord as we
learn at 1 Corinthians 15:44: "It is sown a corruptible body, it shall rise a
spiritual," i.e. a spirit-like, "body." We see that Christ's glorified body was
able to pass through closed doors.
3) Agility - the glorified body will obey the
soul with the greatest ease and speed of movement as we read in 1 Corinthians
15:43: "It is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power," that is, according to a
gloss, "mobile and living." Saint Thomas Aquinas says, "But mobility can only
signify agility in movement. Therefore the glorified bodies will be agile." We
discern agility our Resurrected Lord's ability to bilocate and travel great
distances in an instant.
4) Clarity - the glorified body will be free
from any deformity and will be filled with beauty and radiance as we read
at Matthew 13:43: "The just shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father," and Wisdom 3:7: "The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like
sparks among the reeds." Here clarity refers not being "clear" but to being
"bright."
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