He is the only reality, he is the infinite God who ever was, and is, and is to come.  In this life we see our Maker’s works; in Heaven our Maker himself, and compared with that, this life will seem, in retrospect wholly unreal and shadowy.

For only our Maker can give us that complete satisfaction of soul without which there must always be a sense of frustration and disappointment.  For the material things of the world must always fall short of the true needs of the human spirit.  It is only in the depths of our Maker’s infinity that both endless bliss and unfailing contentment are to be found.

Such is the joy which the Blessed Saints at this moment possess and share.  But, unimaginable though it is to us, it still will not reach its fullness until the Resurrection of the body.  That does not mean, of course, the reassembly of the particles of which our own physical body is composed – as St Paul tells us, this corruption cannot inherit incorruption (1 Corinthians 15: 50).  The Resurrection of the body is the clothing of the soul by God with a spiritual body.