Br. Simon Teller, O.P., on the Beatific Vision

"The beatific vision is like a baby who has a beard. 

"This isn't my own original idea. It belongs to Saint Thomas Aquinas (see De veritate q. 13, a. 1, ad 1), who used it to argue against the claim that in heaven we'll somehow lose our humanity.  If we spend time thinking about it, the beatific vision - the strange and glorious union with God that we will enjoy in heaven - can seem like something unnatural to us. 

"But Aquinas is very much opposed to the idea of the beatific vision violating human nature. He sees heaven as a place where people become more, not less, human."

In a recent commentary, Brother Simon Teller, O.P., reflected on how the life that we live in this world "is like a stage of infancy" and on how "when we join the ranks of the blessed in the heavenly kingdom, we will discover that the life of heaven is truly what we were made for."

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