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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN \nFrom a letter by St Alphonsus Liguori \n◊◊◊ \nWhile we remain on earth\, it is difficult\, if not impossible\, to understand \nor describe the happiness of heaven. One reason for this is that we think and \nimagine only in terms of earthly enjoyments. If a horse were made capable of \nreasoning and then were promised a rich feast from its owner\, the animal would \nenvision a meal made up of the choicest hay and oats. Our concept of heaven is \nformed under the same limitations. In heaven we will be totally enthralled with \na beauty far surpassing anything we have experienced here on earth. In heaven \nwe will be sure that we love God and he loves us. \nWhat is more\, this love of ours will be constantly extended by the ever \nincreasing knowledge that we will gain of the magnitude of God’s love for us. We \nwill see how God showed this love\, for example\, by becoming man and dying on \nthe cross for us and by giving us himself in the holy Eucharist. \nAlso\, we will see how many graces God gave us in our lifetime; how he \ndelivered us from so may temptations; how much patience he showed by \nenduring our many weaknesses and sins; how merciful he was to us in giving us \nso many lights\, so many chances\, so much love. \nIn heaven we will forever enjoy a kind of happiness which\, even as eternity \nprogresses\, will always be as new as at the first moment we began to enjoy it. We \nshall be always satisfied\, yet always craving. We will be forever hungry\, yet always \nsated with infinite delights\, because desires in heaven produce no pain\, and \npleasure in heaven never becomes boring.
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