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Do earthly families meet again in Heaven?
Topic Started: Sunday, 29. January 2012, 23:35 (636 Views)
Rose of York
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Emee
Wednesday, 1. February 2012, 23:18
Maybe that's a bit extreme for Catholics but I do feel that where a couple have had a close, loving marriage here on this earth, and their spouse has effectively been their best friend, then knowing that "love is eternal" we can hope and pray to be together in a special friendship in the next life.

I would go so far as to say this also extends to where people have had close and loving friendships of either gender. Love doesn't just stop, it is eternal, and therefore does not end in death.
Unless we forgive we will not be forgiven, so by the time anybody gets into Heaven, they will have learned during the purification in Purgatory, to forgive past hurts. In Heaven there will be no hatred or resentment, so what about the couple who did not have a close loving marriage here on this earth? I can only think that if we take any notice of other people there, everybody will love everybody.

As God is so amazingly glorious and loving, will we want anything or anybody but God? I dunno!
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OsullivanB

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The Male chauvinistic bishops in the early church assumed angels were male, because they could not accept that a female could be all that important
True, but I think it's also biblical (unlike Lucifer). Raphael appeared to Tobit, and Gabriel to Daniel. Michael is named in the Epistle of Jude. All un-named angels in scripture seem also to be men.
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paul

Of course families meet again in heaven. They will be waiting to welcome us. Won't it be great to be able to fill in those missing branches of one's family tree!!!
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If those of us who get to Heaven will have no interest in the companionship in Heaven of people we knew and loved on earth, what would we gain from the resurrection of our bodies?

I wonder how we will recognise each other? My favourite uncle died a long time ago. Last time he saw me on earth I was in my thirties, my looks have changed since then. If he is in Heaven, I wonder if he has been able to observe changes in the appearance of family members.
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pete

All marriages are not the same; in fact some couples can’t stand each other and remain together for the sake of their children and church commitment. Some marriages are violent through drink and drugs. Some marriages can be hell on earth, to transfer this kind of relationship into eternity wouldn’t be fair on anyone. In cases such as these let’s hope they have a descent mail service in Heaven in order to send a Christmas card each year, or computers so they can communicate on Facebook. :lol:
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computers so they can communicate on Facebook
By all means, but PLEASE not an Apple. Remember what happened the last time in Paradise.
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Thursday, 2. February 2012, 17:44
Some marriages can be hell on earth, to transfer this kind of relationship into eternity wouldn’t be fair on anyone.
After purification in Purgatory there will be no hatred in the heart. therefore neither will give the other any suffering. People in Heaven must have given up sinning before they got there.
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Thursday, 2. February 2012, 18:42
People in Heaven must have given up sinning before they got there.
Usually at the moment of death, Rose.
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Thursday, 2. February 2012, 22:25
Rose of York
Thursday, 2. February 2012, 18:42
People in Heaven must have given up sinning before they got there.
Usually at the moment of death, Rose.
I thought Purgatory was the place where we face up to our sinfulness. I wonder if it is possible, whilst in purgatory, for a soul to harbour old resentments and not be allowed into Heaven until they have acknowledged the error of their ways. If so, some married people will have to wait a while before meeting spouses who hurt them during their early lives, they must first forgive and learn to love the other person.
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pete
Thursday, 2. February 2012, 17:44
All marriages are not the same; in fact some couples can’t stand each other and remain together for the sake of their children and church commitment. Some marriages are violent through drink and drugs. Some marriages can be hell on earth, to transfer this kind of relationship into eternity wouldn’t be fair on anyone. In cases such as these let’s hope they have a descent mail service in Heaven in order to send a Christmas card each year, or computers so they can communicate on Facebook. :lol:
I'm sorry Pete but couples who can't stand each other are not staying together for the sake of Church commitment at all.

If they can't stand each other, there are obviously long and deep seated resentments held. This resentment is against Church teaching, and damaging to the heart and soul.

Whether the couple remain together or not they need to forgive each other for the sake of their own souls.

I would hazard it is better for a couple to split up and learn to forgive one another than to stay "together" and continue to hate one another under some misguided principle that they are doing the right thing.

Either way it's tragic and I believe God never wanted it to be like this... :(
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Rose wrote:

"I wonder how we will recognise each other? My favourite uncle died a long time ago. Last time he saw me on earth I was in my thirties, my looks have changed since then. If he is in Heaven, I wonder if he has been able to observe changes in the appearance of family members"

I think all people who enter Heaven will be handsome or beautiful - and the appearance of about 21 years old (even infants and old codgers like me)

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Some people go to Hell too!

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But that's not God's Will Clare.

And I would say the Christian thing to do is to pray and hope for one's family and friends.

I believe where one truly loves someone, and prays for them, and forgives them their wrong doings, and they forgive back; I would say those two people are on the right track.
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Saturday, 4. February 2012, 00:27
Some people go to Hell too!

Just sayin'!
That is one place I would rather not meet anybody I knew on earth. In the absence of God there will be no love, so presumably it is a place of hatred, exactly luvvy duvvy.
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Once someone has heard and believed the good news they should be aiming for Heaven. The Bible then tells us that one believer can bring in a hundred fold - like some sort of love vibe spreading out I suppose that touches others and brings them home also.

Sorry Clare but to say that "people go to Hell" is just fobbing off what God wants for the world, and I would hazard a guess that it is actually looking at a situation from the wrong way round. Sinners are souls to be saved. What if at the end, there is only the devil and his angels on the left side? What do we say then: "Oopsie, sorry God. I just never imagined You really were so merciful - er now I have to get on with all the people I didn't like while I was on earth, in Heaven."?

I know myself when I have felt joyful in the Lord, in my Christianity I am energised and it is just infectious like a sort of positive light full of love and warmth.

What I find really sad is when Christians themselves are divided. For example an anti-abortion site on Facebook sets itself up as Evangelical Protestant and is quite anti-Catholic. I find this divisiveness very sad, tragic even, in such an important battle. That is the saddest thing for me - when Christians themselves can't get on and become polarised into "camps".
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