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aint Augustine in the renowned work incorporeal and directs everything to its The City of , deals with the own end. Therefore either God be spiritual vision of God that the seen through the eyes in the sense that Paradise enjoy: “Therefore it may very they would have in a such high sublimity well be and it is perfectly credible that in a function similar to that of the mind and we shall see the material forms by which they may be able to discern of the world of new and of new also the spiritual nature, and it is difficult, earth in such a way that we will see God or rather impossible to clarify such a with luminous clarity, wherever we turn supposition with examples or with texts our eyes, through the body that we will of the Scripture. Alternatively, have and through the bodies that we will and this is an idea easier to comprehend, observe. God is present everywhere and God will be so known by us with such directs to their end all things including a clarity that we shall see Him by the the material ones. And this will not in ourselves, in one another, in occur as in our , when the invisible Himself, in the new heavens and in the of God, regarding the works new earth and in every creature that will accomplished by Him, are contemplated exist in eternity, and also by the means with the intellect as in a mirror, in an of the body we shall see God in every obscure manner and only in part, body, in every direction where the sharp because here the by which we vision of the spiritual body shall reach. believe can be more useful than the Also thoughts will be revealed from one representation of the objects of the phys- another. Then, shall be fulfilled the but after having read the work ical world that we express by means of words of the Apostle, who after having by he embraced philosophy, the eyes of our body. When we see the said: Judge nothing before time, adds: adhering to . In 387 on a people living around us, who are exercis- Until comes and will bring to trip to he met Saint . The ing vital functions, it is not by faith that light the hidden things of darkness and encounter revealed itself important to we understand that they are alive, but by will manifest the intentions of the heart; the faith journey of Augustine: it is seeing them, because we cannot observe then shall everyone have praise of God.” from him that he received . their life without their bodies, but we see Subsequently he returned to with it beyond any uncertainty by means of Saint Augustine was born in Africa the desire to create a community of their bodies. In the same way, in eternity in , – now . After the death of his mother he wherever we will direct the spiritual in – on , 354 from a moved to Hippo, where he was ordained luminosity of our bodies, also with our family of small landowners. He received and . He died on August bodies we shall contemplate God, Who is a Christian education from his mother, 28, 430. © Associazione Carlo Acutis