We are in Eastertide, and not only do we rejoice in Christ’s Resurrection, but we rejoice too in what this means for our own bodies: at the Final Judgement our bodies too will finally be released from their graves to be restored to our souls. This is an article of faith (the eleventh), one we reaffirm every Sunday in the Creed when we repeat: ‘I believe in the resurrection of the body.’ And yet there is something a bit vague about this; what does this mean in practice? It is also, according to St Augustine, quoted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the most challenged article of faith: ‘On no point does the Christian faith encounter more opposition than on the resurrection of the body’ (CCC §996).
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The Resurrection of the Body
The Church teaches the resurrection of the body, yet its meaning is often left unexplored in practical terms
Fr Gavan Jennings
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