STUDY OF OFFICIAL CATECHISM REFERENCE BOOK: CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2M.HTM
II. Heaven
1023 Those who die in God’s grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they “see him as he is,” face to face:596
By virtue of our apostolic authority, we define the following: According to the general disposition of God, the souls of all the saints . . . and other faithful who died after receiving Christ’s holy Baptism (provided they were not in need of purification when they died, . . . or, if they then did need or will need some purification, when they have been purified after death, . . .) already before they take up their bodies again and before the general judgment – and this since the Ascension of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into heaven – have been, are and will be in heaven, in the heavenly Kingdom and celestial paradise with Christ, joined to the company of the holy angels. Since the Passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ, these souls have seen and do see the divine essence with an intuitive vision, and even face to face, without the mediation of any creature.597
1024 This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity – this communion of life and love with the Trinity, with the Virgin Mary, the angels and all the blessed – is called “heaven.” Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness.
1025 To live in heaven is “to be with Christ.” the elect live “in Christ,”598 but they retain, or rather find, their true identity, their own name.599
For life is to be with Christ; where Christ is, there is life, there is the kingdom.600
1026 By his death and Resurrection, Jesus Christ has “opened” heaven to us. the life of the blessed consists in the full and perfect possession of the fruits of the redemption accomplished by Christ. He makes partners in his heavenly glorification those who have believed in him and remained faithful to his will. Heaven is the blessed community of all who are perfectly incorporated into Christ.
1027 This mystery of blessed communion with God and all who are in Christ is beyond all understanding and description. Scripture speaks of it in images: life, light, peace, wedding feast, wine of the kingdom, the Father’s house, the heavenly Jerusalem, paradise: “no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him.”601
1028 Because of his transcendence, God cannot be seen as he is, unless he himself opens up his mystery to man’s immediate contemplation and gives him the capacity for it. the Church calls this contemplation of God in his heavenly glory “the beatific vision”:
How great will your glory and happiness be, to be allowed to see God, to be honored with sharing the joy of salvation and eternal light with Christ your Lord and God, . . . to delight in the joy of immortality in the Kingdom of heaven with the righteous and God’s friends.602
1029 In the glory of heaven the blessed continue joyfully to fulfill God’s will in relation to other men and to all creation. Already they reign with Christ; with him “they shall reign for ever and ever.”603
Levels of Heaven & Hell: What are They? – Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk2pxDruVX8&list=WL&index=7
Knowing Up From Down Heaven & Hell
WATCH https://youtu.be/XtvntQfUQzo?si=Fu63x6ZqibMt5x2c
WHERE IS HEAVEN
PREPARING YOUR ARRIVAL TO HEAVEN
IN HEAVEN WHILE SEEING RELATIVE IN HELL
GATE OF HEAVEN NOT OPEN WITH DEATH BUT WITH RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
PLACES ASSIGNED IN HEAVEN
MINUTE 1H20′
WHAT IS HEAVEN?
Will we be sad in heaven knowing loved ones are in hell?
MATTHEW 23: NO MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN MEANING
See Minute 1h23mn
WORLD UNTIL THE PLACES OF HEAVEN ARE FILLED
MINUTE 17:29
Do animals go to heaven?
NO MORE SACRAMENTS IN HEAVEN
¿A dónde van los niños abortados?
Why total Surrender Is the Only Way to Heaven | Fr. Mike Schmitz and Bishop Robert Barron
SORROW IN HEAVEN BUT NO PHYSICAL PAIN
“Does Marriage Perdure in Heaven? (Aquinas 101)”
