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The resurrection is a wonderful meeting The resurrection is a wonderful meeting between two united friends who have lived together their whole life since their birth and even before it, during pregnancy in their mothers' wombs. They never separated even for one moment; They are: the body and the spirit. Each of them has a special nature; the body is earthly and the spirit is heavenly. They have united in one nature-the human nature. You cannot separate one from the other and say "This is the body and that is the spirit." They have lived together in an admirable unity. The body expresses all the sensations and feelings of the spirit. If the spirit becomes glad the body will smile and rejoice. If it becomes sad, sorrow will appear in the eyes. After a long life they will separate from one another because of death but in the end they will meet each other in the resurrection. The spirit meets the body after seeing the body change into a handful of dust. Then returns more radiant than before, without any blemish. Even the faults, stuck to the body in the past, disappear. Yes, it is raised without defects because wrong and evil deeds do not agree with eternal paradise. The body returns more friendly. It never disagrees with the spirit in the other world for it is raised a spiritual body. The second wonderful meeting in the resurrection is a meeting of nations and races of the whole history. It will be a general resurrection since the days of Adam. All nations and races that lived through generations and centuries, with their different languages, features and lineaments, with all their heroes and leaders will meet together and try to be acquainted and understand each other. Undoubtedly, they will do so because there will be one language the language of the spirit or that of the angels. How wonderful this meeting will be!! It will be the greatest of all stories and the strangest narrative of long epochs. The best of all will be the procession of the triumphant and victorious people who struggled during their life on earth, then conquered and supported truth and morals. They will meet together and everyone has a story related by generations... then the world will become once more one nation as it had been before parting and dispersion.I wonder!! how will the meeting of the nations which had fought with each other be? Will the causes that forced them to wage wars against each other seem insignificant? The third marvelous meeting is that of the human beings With the angels who are made of a nature more eminent than ours. Meeting with them will be one of eternity's happy enjoyment. But the most wonderful meeting with the Lord will surpass any other meeting in its eminence Our meeting with God, blessed is His name, will be the eternal paradise for there will be no paradisaical life without Him. Now my pen stops in silent submissiveness because I am before a scene which words fail to describe or interpret. It is above the standard of any language to express or any intelligence to imagine. Thus, the resurrection is a strange and wonderful meeting .... *Adapted from HH Pope Shenouda III's Contemplation on the Resurrection - Chapter 1
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