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"Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory, and honor, and power: because thou hast created all things." Apoc. iv, II. Dear Brethren, we know that the "Glory be to the Father" occurs very frequently in the prayers of the Church and in our private devotions. In the Rosary it is repeated with every decade. This prayer of praise is of great significance for the Christian life.
For the first heaven and the first earth were gone.... And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men, and He shall dwell with them.... And God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away."* * Apoc. xxi.
O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?"+ This is the joyful song of triumph which ever resounds through the vaults of heaven, because "The just shall live forever more: and their reward is with the Lord, and the care of them with the Most High. Therefore shall they receive a kingdom of glory, and a crown of beauty at the hand of the Lord." * Apoc. xxi. + 1 Cor. xv. Wis. v.
This will be emphatically a Beatific Vision for you. you will then enter into the possession and enjoyment of God, who alone can fill the soul with pure and permanent happiness. * Apoc. iii. 17. We shall now close this chapter with a beautiful extract from the great theologian Lessius.
They may be divided into eight classes, namely, the martyrs, the doctors and confessors, the virgins, the religious, the penitents, the pious people, those of inferior virtue, and the baptized infants. In this chapter we shall consider the glory of the Martyrs. * Apoc. vii. 9.
And He that sat upon the throne said: Behold I make all things new."* * Apoc. xx. Here is a new order of things, in a new world a world of beauty and perfection inconceivably greater than the one wherein we now live. This is the world in which we are to live the life of the blessed. In this chapter, we shall examine five of its most prominent attributes. First, it is a life of peace.
John the Evangelist, Apoc. 4.7, see the faithful clothed in the heavenly and blessed Jerusalem.
Augustine says that "the angel was so beautiful and glorious that St. John actually mistook him for God, and would really have given him divine worship, had not the angel prevented it by declaring who he was." * Apoc. xiv. From all this, we begin to see what St. John means when he tells us that we shall be like God, "because we shall see Him as he is."
If His Majesty repays us so abundantly, that even in this life the reward and gain of those who serve Him become visible, what will it be in the next? Ch. xx. section 30. Ch. xx. section 34. Exod. xxiii. 15: "Non apparebis in conspectu meo vacuus." Apoc. ii. 23: "Dabo unicuique vestrum secundum opera sua." See ch. xxxii. section 1. "Farsa de esta vida tan mal concertada."
Listen to it: "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book, and open the seals thereof: because Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us in Thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation."* It is evident, then, that Jesus is rewarded in His human nature with the highest glory of heaven, on account of his own individual merits. * Apoc. v. 9.
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