The nicene creed catholic 2017
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The nicene creed catholic 2017
In the Nicene Creed we profess that we “look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.” (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)
By David Gibson • Catholic News Service • Posted July 12, 2017
Heaven is so hard to imagine!
For heaven is to such a great extent unknown to us.
Yet, we who are Catholics profess in the Nicene Creed during the Mass that we “look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.” But do we?
Pope Benedict XVI wondered about that.
In his 2007 encyclical “Spe Salvi” on Christian hope, Pope Benedict posed the question directly. He asked, “Do we really want this — to live eternally?” His concern was that eternal life might sound “monotonous” to many or even “unbearable.”
In fact, the pope speculated, there may be many who “re