Originally published at The Catholic Thing

We are in Eastertide, and not only do we rejoice in Christ’s Resurrection, but we rejoice too in what this means for our own bodies: at the Final Judgement our bodies too will finally be released from their graves to be restored to our souls. This is an article of faith (the eleventh), one we reaffirm every Sunday in the Creed when we repeat: ‘I believe in the resurrection of the body.’ And yet there is something a bit vague about this; what does this mean in practice?
 

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