Although we speak of a person’s soul and body as being two separate things, yet in fact they are not.  It is the soul and the body together that make up the complete person; each is an expression of that person and the one is continually acting on the other.  Thus the soul, when it is separated from the body by death, thereby loses the means to express itself completely and exercise all its faculties and so lead a full life.  Its existence in the next world, therefore, will begin by being partial and incomplete until this phase of being a disembodied spirit is ended by the Resurrection of the body.

Then each soul will be clothed in a spiritual body that will fulfil the same function in the life of Heaven as our physical body does in this life.  Thus, on a level immeasurably higher than anything we can know now, each will again be a complete person, able to enjoy to the full all the marvels of seeing and sharing the life and being of the eternal God, who is the true and unending source of Heaven’s bliss.