It's horrible and melodramatic and maudlin, and it's straight out of the Nicholas Sparks School of
Beatific Men and the Unrepentant Whores Who Destroy Their Precious Souls.
Not exact matches
* all - knowing,
beatific smile * Old
Man: «Please shut up and go away.»
Through the hypostatic union of God the Word with the human nature,
men are given the highest possible destiny -
beatific transformation as co-sharers of the infinite Godhead.
De Lubac clarifies that
man can not know that his desire is for the
beatific vision.
Perhaps the truth lies elsewhere, as Vatican II seems to indicate: «
man is the only creature on earth that God has wanted for its own sake,» (GS 24) since we alone have spiritual souls and are called by God to the supernatural end which is the
beatific vision.
As the human nature of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son of
Man, of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the
beatific vision.
I honestly hesitate to criticise him, not least because he appears to be a personally devout, good and humble
man, and a highly accomplished scholar, who will no doubt be enjoying the
Beatific Vision while I am still trudging around the lower levels of Mount Purgatory.
Unable to pay their mortgage or find new work, they leave the big city and stumble quite by accident into a commune in Georgia, led by a
beatific ladies»
man (Justin Theroux in Jesus hair, and killing it).
There is a poignancy to the work, an underlying sense of melancholy despite the
beatific intensity of its exuberant colours, for this young
man can be seen as a veritable Dorian Gray, his youthful visage frozen forever by the artists lens - a reminder of the inevitable march of time.