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The Resurrection of the Body
More than the raising of Lazarus ( Part two )<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Greatest Mutation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pope Benedict XVI tied all this together in an Easter Vigil homily when he called the resurrection \u201cthe greatest mutation\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But somehow the Resurrection is situated so far beyond our horizon, so far outside all our experience that, returning to ourselves, we find ourselves continuing the argument of the disciples: Of what exactly does this ‘rising’ consist? What does it mean for us, for the whole world and the whole of history? A German theologian once said ironically that the miracle of a corpse returning to life \u2013 if it really happened, which he did not actually believe \u2013 would be ultimately irrelevant precisely because it would not concern us. In fact, if it were simply that somebody was once brought back to life, and no more than that, in what way should this concern us? But the point is that Christ\u2019s Resurrection is something more, something different. If we may borrow the language of the theory of evolution, it is the greatest ‘mutation’, absolutely the most crucial leap into a totally new dimension that there has ever been in the long history of life and its development: a leap into a completely new order which does concern us, and concerns the whole of history. (April 15, 2006)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A glorified body<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pope John Paul II gave a thorough treatment of the resurrection of the body in his Theology of the Body discourses (TOB 64-72), but we will just give a hint of what he says about this experience. I will leave it to the reader to contrast this description of resurrection as a radically new step in life with Lazarus’s experience of merely resuming this earthly life still headed towards his second death. Pope John Paul II described our resurrected life as being perfectly integrated, and \u201cthe powers of the spirit will permeate the energies of the body\u201d (TOB 67:2). The \u201cpowers of the spirit\u201d refer to things like the intellect and the will and the memory. That these powers will permeate the body means that we will have absolute control over our bodies to the most refined degree\u2013having intelligent fingers, for example or eyes that can make their own choices. Furthermore, because our whole person will be taken up in receiving \u201cGod’s most personal self-communication\u201d (TOB 67:5) all of these powers will be oriented towards love. Our bodies will be a perfectly harmonized integration totally open and oriented to receiving God’s love and through Him open to everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever Lazarus’s experience of life after death was, we can be sure it was not like that. From the experience of the resurrection of the body, there will be no turning back. In the Resurrection of Christ, we have a future that is unimaginably beautiful and therefore a hope that helps us to say with St Paul, \u201cFor his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him\u2026to know him and the power of his resurrection and [the] sharing of his sufferings by being conformed to his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.\u201d (Philippians 3:8,10-11) And \u201cI consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.\u201d (Romans 8:18)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fr Boniface hicks OSB<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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