When we want to comfort someone who just lost a relative, we often say things like - he does not suffer anymore, or she is in a better place now, or we say that she is with her beloved husband, or he is with his parents now. And nothing wrong with that. I also say things like that even when I preach at a funeral mass. That’s because we want to see again those we loved here, we hope to be reunited, we want to believe that those who died are happy now. Knowing that and believing in that brings us comfort and hope. Jesus tells us today that Heaven will be different than what we expect and what we imagine. It will be far better than we think. Because we think in the categories of this world and of what we experienced here. We think in terms of the relationships we established here - father, mother, wife, husband, son or daughter, friend. In heaven it will be better, far better - we all will be like angels there, equal, holy, united in perfect love with God. Jesus said: “The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.”
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