Mother Angelica: Mother Angelica’s Brief Guide to Heaven

By Mother Angelica, Catholic Exchange, March 9, 2023

This article is adapted from Mother Angelica’s What is Heaven? It is available through Sophia Institute Press.

To most of us, Heaven is rather abstract. It’s a kind of fuzzy thing. Often in life, we look forward to events — graduations, doctorates, marriage, and so on. But when our anticipation is great, the event, when it occurs, seems to lose something. That’s why, I believe, we don’t like to talk about Heaven. We’re so afraid it won’t be anything like what we are expecting, and so we begin to doubt.

What Heaven is like hasn’t even entered into our wildest imaginations. On earth, you and I want happiness. But life is fraught with a little bit of bitterness, even when we’re happy. That’s because, as soon as we have something that makes us happy, we’re afraid we’re going to lose it.

Happiness, here on earth, is always bittersweet. …

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