How little I do, how undeserving of the great love of The Lord Jesus Christ. He died and rose from death, then He went about showing Himself. How glorious it must have been to see His Face, the same face once covered in blood, with wounds and blows, of saliva that was spat on Him, a distorted visage from indescribable pain, now gleaming, smiling, immaculately clean. Could there be a more beautiful face? I will die to see.
Beatific Vision is the time when we can see God face to face, the perfection of happiness. When God takes back the breath that sustained us in our temporary journey, there is one question to answer if we could see His face, "where did we let His breath take us in life?".
1 Corinthians 15:1-6 (A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians)
I am reminding you, brothers and sister, of the gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. Through it you are also being saved. If you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures; that He was buried; that He was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures; that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
After that, Christ appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most are still living, though some have fallen asleep. After that He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
Last of all, as to one born abnormally, He appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God,nI am what I am, and His grace to me has not been ineffective indeed. I have toiled harder than all of them, not I, however, but the grace of God that is with me.
Therefore, whether it be I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
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