Sentences with phrase «in beatific»

In his peaceful slumber, which you see in a beatific smile, he holds his sword hilt with his left hand and a vigilant lion lies beneath his resting feet.

Anoint every inch of your skin with the tropical botanical beauties of fresh Tahitian gardenia flowers infused in volcanic coconut oil, where Hawaiian sandalwood sanctifies the senses, juicy jasmine saturates in turmeric's tender embrace, and lemon, vanilla, and ylang burst in beatific bouquets of tropical wonder.

In communion with God, in the beatific vision, we are promised the perfect happiness and fulfillment that never wanes.

He does not invite us into communion with himself, nor is there any possibility of seeing him as he really is in the Beatific Vision.

Only in the beatific vision - the end toward which philosophy, the love of wisdom, is oriented - will those limits be overcome.

Though recent critics applaud Chaucer for being a «nonjudgmental» poet of this world (and thus distinguishable from Dante), Klassen draws attention again to the fact that both Dante and Chaucer are animated by a «poetic of hope» rooted in the beatific vision.

An obediential potentiality is one whose actualization goes beyond the natural, innate limitations of its subject, while not being irreconcilable with those limitations, e.g. the direct intuition of God in the beatific vision.

Redemption means restoring through pain and sorrow the original invitation to perfect love that terminates in beatific communion.

Armed with these materials, one could mark out an intelligent path from the earliest materials in the Hebrew Bible to Dante's portrayal of the final end of humanity in the beatific vision.

Not exact matches

In fact he has given us the highest destiny of all, to become utterly like him and to see him as he really is in what we call «The Beatific Vision»In fact he has given us the highest destiny of all, to become utterly like him and to see him as he really is in what we call «The Beatific Vision»in what we call «The Beatific Vision».

Faith does not diminish the necessity for the analogia entis, but neither does the beatific vision, which, even though it is the endpoint «intrinsic to the spiritual life,» still functions as «a defining end as far beyond every proportion as God in Himself is beyond the creation.»

In this context the book elaborates that suffering is not to be feared but rather embraced as «a sure pledge of His tenderness... This guarantee, this real testimony of the Beatific Vision, which made the souls of the saints sigh with joy, is not the brilliant successes of this world, or temporal glory or happiness, but trialsand suffering» (p. 294).

The human nature of Christ was predestined by God to that highest glory of the beatific sharing in the inner life of the divine persons.

Grace prompts communion in love that terminates in the gift of perfect union, which we call the Beatific Vision.

The end of this journey is the beatific vision — to see God and to rest in God — and that vision is granted only to those who are perfected, to the pure in heart.

Knowledge is preeminent also in the final bliss of the elect; the essence of salvation is the beatific vision.

Heaven is life with God, in the enjoyment of «the beatific vision.»

Questions of eschatology in Christian theology quickly become questions of protology, and so we must ask how this picture of a beatific vision absent nonhuman life affects how we are to think of creation in the first place.

Sin can play no part in the plan of God, and there can be left no stain of sin in the hearts of any who enjoy the Beatific Vision.

Two metaphysical sensibilities seem to be in play here, which perhaps can not be resolved short of the beatific vision.

They will still be technically in hell, since they will lack the beatific vision, but they will enjoy a kind of natural felicity, like that of infants who die without baptism.

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.

According to Catholic teaching, as defined at the Councils of Lyons (1274) and Florence (1439), those who die in the grace of God expiate their unforgiven venial or pardonable sins by undergoing due punishment before being admitted to the beatific vision.

My interlocutor was an adherent to a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision, one that allows for no real participation of animal creation (except eminently, through us) in the final blessedness of the Kingdom; I, by contrast, hope to see puppies in paradise, and persevere in faith principally for that reason.

There is the sheer giving and ecstatic happiness in being possessed by everlasting love, and concomitantly with this and fusing with it is the joy of possessing God as He is by means of the beatific vision.36

That granted, the traditional scheme was right in speaking of «heaven» as it did, with the «beatific vision» and the bliss or happiness which is granted through that vision.

But once a saint has been canonised by the Supreme Pontiff and offered to the universal Church for veneration, we must accept beyond doubt that they are enjoying the Beatific Vision in heaven.

Since the presence of God is reserved only for the worthy, imperfections and lesser evils in one's life have to be «worked off» before the beatific vision is possible.

Their lives were suddenly sparked by an encounter with the Channel 0 news team: the woman in the office receiving a beatific vision of the Channel 0 helicopter outside her office window; the one on the street seeing the News team at work; and the old woman being given help with her parcels by the Channel 0 news anchor.

Since only the pure in heart can see God, this person needs to complete the sanctification process before they can enter the Beatific Vision.

In John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, as the heroes Christian and Hopeful approach the celestial city they fall sick with desire; but ultimately this sickness heals them and makes them strong enough to bear the delights of the beatific vision.

The presence of God in the sanctuary establishes a relationship against which death can not prevail; hence it is logical that when notions of a beatific afterlife eventually begin to develop, they should take a liturgical shape.

Comrades in rapture, Monica and Augustine have experienced something like a foretaste of the beatific vision as enjoyed in the communion of saints.

We find such a picture in the tenth - century Irish Vision of Adamnan, in a curious scene that captures the sociability of the beatific vision.

And in this age, the church must be the place where beatific vision is anticipated and trained.

While other celebrity moms appear to exist in an unearthly state of beatific perfection, Teigen is all over Instagram and Twitter showing all the weird, real aspects of parenting that the rest of us go through.

And his inner ring of aides appears to have formed a small cult around him, insisting he enjoys an ineffable mystic bond with «the people,» and that all who glimpse his pure beatific aura must fall into instantaneous ecstasies of awe and reverence, and speak of him afterward in only the most cringing and slavish terms.

He fondly remembers watching an impressive and fearless high - ranking male, playful juveniles, and a chimpanzee in a patch of sunlight with a beatific look on its face.

When I asked her if she ever gets anxious at the beginning of a class, thinking about how she was 90 minutes or more away from laying down in final rest, she answered with a big, beatific grin: «No, never.»

On this trippier, more scattered collection, it emerges in the looming calm, the open moments that peek through pneumatic melodies, beatific, druggy vocals and that throbbing, omnipresent kick.

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).

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu - Ray), Sam Peckinpah's personal favorite of his films, opens on an idyllic river scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current with a beatific smile on her face.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu - Ray), one of Sam Peckinpah's personal favorites of his films (and the rare Peckinpah film not to get reworked by the studio), opens on an idyllic river scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current with a beatific smile on her face.

In place of conventional brassy period movie - music cues, there's beatific sample - laden electronica and contemporary Afro - Pop.

Risen does give us a Jesus in Cliff Curtis, but he remains a beatific cypher, and the takeaway is that, in the same distancing manner as those black - themed pictures told through the eyes of white protagonists, here's a Biblical yarn related not through Christ Himself but an individual late to the party.

The movie flirts with the outline of a coherent plot, but the answers to its dramatic questions have all sunk to the ocean floor in a plume of beatific marine footage and Cronenbergian body horror.

Steven Spielberg's film locates the beatific in its (literally) outsized star, Mark Rylance, but lapses into the banal when its eponymous Big Friendly Giant...

No matter, as Wolvie breaks into Stryker's lab after discovering that Stryker is actually an anti-mutie bigot and frees a bunch of little mutant kids promptly adopted by a beatific Professor X (Patrick Stewart), providing a segue into Bryan Singer's X-Men though not explaining why no one at Professor X's school in that film seems to recognize their savior from this one.

Also as in that film, she shoots those characters early on at a beatific backyard barbecue, pushing in for idyllic close - ups of wholesome sights like ribs being basted and kids on rope swings to establish a family in the context of its community — a lively congregation led by the friendly, funny, and wise Pastor Scott (John Carroll Lynch).

Remarkable to think that this phantasmagoric assault, which in a sense encompasses the entirety of recorded history (and beyond), unfolds exclusively in a single house, which Jennifer Lawrence's unnamed, beatific mom - to - be struggles to protect from a series of invasive interlopers.