00:00How are you, my dear brothers and sisters? I greet you again and hope that God our Lord is with you.
00:05May blessings fill your life. Today we have a question from Maria Luisa.
00:11From Campeche. She asks us the following, she tells us,
00:16Father, we have been taught that no one has ever known the mystery of death,
00:22In other words, nobody knows what happens after death. However, according to the
00:27According to the scriptures, Lazarus died and was resurrected four days after his death.
00:33The question is, did Lazarus know anything about what happens after the
00:39Death? Thank you very much for your response.
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01:31Expensive.
01:33Well, my dear Maria Luisa, regarding the subject of death we have, on the one hand, what we
01:40Sacred Scripture informs us, and on the other hand, some experiences of people, like Lazarus
01:46and others, who, having experienced death, have returned to our world, a phenomenon called
01:53Beyond and Back, in English, by its English name, to go and return.
01:59To address this topic, I propose that we first examine it from the perspective of Sacred Scripture and
02:06Next, let's analyze some of the experiences of those who have returned to life. From what
02:12There is something after death, according to Holy Scripture, primarily in the New Testament, we know.
02:18that God has prepared for us, those who love him, paradise, which in words
02:24What Saint Paul had prepared was something that no eye had seen, no ear had heard, nothing God had prepared.
02:30for those who love him. That is, what exists after death, that is,
02:36Heaven, which is identified with a state of life in which there is neither pain, nor
02:42suffering of any kind. In it, one experiences the extreme and unimaginable joy of living in
02:50God, as the Book of Revelation says. We have no experimental evidence to support this.
02:56nor experiential, as it falls within the realm of faith. To delve deeper into the topic
03:03What you're suggesting, it would be good if we now asked ourselves, what is death? Theologically speaking
03:09It is defined as the absolute inability of the body to retain the soul.
03:15that death occurs when the soul separates from the body, and we are referring to the spiritual soul,
03:20no to the natural biological element that keeps a person physically alive. However,
03:27since one of the elements that show the presence of the human soul is activity
03:31cerebral, I'm not going into all that this implies, when it is shown that there is no longer any activity
03:37cerebral, even though he is still physically alive, that is, that the heart and other functions
03:43If the parasympathetic nerves remain in the body, the person has truly died. At that point,
03:50The person enters what is now known as a transition. Based on the experiences of those who
03:56They have already experienced clinical death and then returned to life, a phenomenon
04:02which we call resuscitation, to distinguish it from the resurrection, which will only occur in
04:08Regarding the final judgment, there are many scientifically proven testimonies in which those
04:15Those who have lived it speak of a journey. In all of them, the common experience
04:22It's that they don't reach the end of the journey, sometimes presented as a bridge, as a river, as
04:29a path, etc. From these testimonies we can infer that in all these cases, these people
04:36who have not yet been judged, have not reached heaven and therefore have not had the vision
04:42total beatific, as Saint Paul says in Corinthians, where man will know God as
04:50He knows himself. In these experiences, the phenomenon of non-spatiality is also common.
04:58and not temporality, which is proper to the celestial state, the state in which God lives in
05:06his kingdom. So, although those of us who remain in the temporal realm would seem to have passed away.
05:13one, two or more hours, even days, for the person in their timeless experience will be
05:20only a few seconds or minutes, since upon leaving his body he leaves this temporary world
05:27And in this transition process, there is a conception of time and space that does not correspond
05:33to the reality we know. Resuscitation implies a regeneration of the affected part
05:40of the body that caused the illness and ultimately led to death. In all cases, including
05:46In the story of Lazarus, people return from that journey with a miraculous cure, in a way that
05:53The doctors cannot explain how the cause of death was
05:58completely healed. Another common experience is that the person has a conversion.
06:04A profound connection to God, whatever image of God a person may have. This is usually the case.
06:11radically changes their life. With all this in mind, we can conclude that the experience
06:17The true nature of heaven can only be known through faith, whether through what Sacred Scripture has revealed to us,
06:24as well as through the mystical experiences of spiritual masters. The experience we know
06:30The experience of those who have been revived is only a partial one and cannot be taken as the complete experience.
06:36From heaven. Therefore, what they tell us in their testimonies will only be confusing elements.
06:43of a reality that is no longer that of Earth, spacetime, but which cannot be equated to what is
06:51Heaven, promised by Christ. Or, in the case of a wicked life, the experience of hell.
07:00Hopefully this will somehow answer your question, since we're talking about a big
07:05Mystery. Well, I hope to see you all at our next catechesis and may you all receive my blessing.
07:12Until next time.
