BODY AND SOUL

 

 

“He asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?”  They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them.”  Luke 24:41-43

 

 

[Excerpt from Commentary on the Gospel reading from the Universalis, 16 April 2020]

 

The important lesson of this is that, in our resurrection to true life, it is the whole person that is raised, not just the soul.

 

Our bodies will be so real that we will be able to eat.

 

Christian teaching is that a person is an animated body.  We work out our salvation with fingers and toes and our bodily members, and all wil be raised to life.

 

It is not just a matter of thoughts and intentions.

 

The whole body is baptised into Christ and is the instrument of our salvation.  We shall be raised as a true person.