Paradise, Heaven

One of the representations of Paradise.

Heaven or Paradise is the place of eternal eternal rest of the Soul who dies in a state of Grace, in a state of union with God, this Soul having followed the Commandments of God during their life, and/or having repented before their death of their sins. The Soul sees God face to face there and lives the bliss eternal brought by this vision and this unimpeded union with its Creator.

In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"[edit | edit source]

Parable of the rich man and the poor Lazarus – Paradise and Hell.^[1]-^[2]
"He descended into hell"^[3]
The sight of God, the possession of God, are the sources of a bliss so infinite that no pain remains for the Blessed.^[4]
"You will be with Me in Paradise." Some will have the Reward after expiation, others immediately after death, but the reward will be such that just as you will forget the Earth and its pains, so you will forget Purgatory with its penitential nostalgias of love.^[5]
These are not the thoughts here, in any of the three realms. In Hell, hatred and punishment cause fierce blindness. In Purgatory, the Thirst for expiation annihilates any other thought. In The Limbo, the Blessed expectation of the just is not profaned by any sensuality. The Earth is far away with its miseries; it is only near for supernatural needs, needs of the Souls, not needs of objects.^[6]
The Virgin Mary: What joy spread through all the realms of God: in Paradise, in Purgatory, in The Limbo.^[7]

In other works of Maria Valtorta[edit | edit source]

The Notebooks of 1943[edit | edit source]

Catechesis of July 1: Now I truly understand what ‘Paradise’ means. It means living always seeing this Sun, One and Triune.^[8]

The Notebooks of 1944[edit | edit source]

Catechesis of January 10: Vision of Paradise: How sweet it is! How sweet! How sweet is what I see!^[9]
Catechesis of May 25: Vision of Paradise, where Love reigns and to which only the "living" spoken of by Isaiah can access, in other words those who have erased their faults by charity. The writer sees the Father create the Souls; the Son judge the dead; the Holy Spirit, the Virgin, the Angels and the Blessed.^[10]

In fundamental Christian texts[edit | edit source]

In the Bible[edit | edit source]

My dear friends, we are now children of God, but what we shall become is not yet clearly revealed. However, we know this: when the Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.^[11]
For now, I know only incompletely; but then I shall know God fully, even as I have been fully known.^[12]
There will no longer be anything accursed. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and the servants of God will worship him. They shall see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.^[13]

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church[edit | edit source]

Man in Paradise.^[14]
Those who die in the grace and friendship of God, and who are perfectly purified, live forever with the Christ. They are forever like God, because they see him as he is, face to face.^[15]

In other sources[edit | edit source]

The Mystics speak of Heaven: Excerpts from the Dictionary of Catholic Theology published by JesusMarie.free^[16]

Notes and references[edit | edit source]

[1] Luke 16:19-31

[2] EMV 191

[3] EMV 194

[4] EMV 376

[5] EMV 424

[6] EMV 456

[7] EMV 630

[8] Catechesis of July 1, 1943

[9] Catechesis of January 10, 1944

[10] Catechesis of May 25, 1944

[11] 1 John 3:2

[12] 1 Corinthians 13:12

[13] Revelation 22:3-4

[14] CEC 374

[15] CEC 1023

[16] The Mystics speak of Heaven: Excerpts from the Dictionary of Catholic Theology published by JesusMarie.free.

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