What will be the result of this intimate relation between the Church triumphant and Jesus Christ?
The result will be that on its entrance into heaven Almighty God will bestow upon it the most inestimable gifts which are called the dowry of the blessed (XCV. 1).
What is this dowry?
It is threefold in the glorified soul from which it is reflected, as it were, in the body under the form of the four properties whereby the body is glorified (of these latter we have already spoken); this dowry will consist in the vision, possession, and fruition of the divine essence (XCV. 5).
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