🗣️Carlos Alcaraz on Novak Djokovic:
"We all know Novak the tennis player — a champion whose achievements and records stand unmatched. But what truly sets him apart is the person he is. He’s always there for the young players coming up, generous with his time and support for everyone around him. That kindness and humility deserve the deepest admiration. At the end of the day, it’s not just his greatness on the court, but his greatness as a human being that makes him truly exceptional."
📌 7 THINGS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES ABOUT HEAVEN THAT MOST CATHOLICS HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD
1. YOU WILL STILL BE YOU
The Church teaches that in heaven you retain your personal identity, your memories, your personality, your relationships. The resurrection of the body means YOU, not a generic soul mist, will be there. (CCC 1023)
2. YOU WILL KNOW AND BE KNOWN
The Beatific Vision is not the erasure of self, it is the perfection of it. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that in heaven we know God directly, face to face. And in knowing God, we know everything truly. Including those we love.
3. THERE ARE DEGREES OF GLORY
Not everyone experiences heaven identically. St. Paul writes: “Star differs from star in glory.” (1 Cor 15:41). How we loved, served, and suffered on earth shapes the depth of our eternal joy.
4. THE SAINTS IN HEAVEN ARE ACTIVE
They are not asleep. They intercede for us. They worship. They rejoice when sinners repent (Luke 15:7). Heaven is alive with communion and love in motion.
5. TIME AS WE KNOW IT ENDS
Heaven is not “a very long time.” It is outside of time altogether, eternal in the fullest sense. Every moment is the fullness of joy, complete and inexhaustible.
St. Augustine: “Our heart is restless until it rests in Thee.”
6. YOUR RESURRECTED BODY WILL BE GLORIFIED
Four gifts: impassibility (no suffering), subtlety (not bound by matter), agility (movement without limit), clarity (radiant with divine light).
This is not mythology. This is the Scholastic theology of resurrection.
7. HEAVEN IS RELATIONSHIP, NOT REWARD
The essence of heaven is not “getting something,” it is being in perfect, unobstructed union with God and with all those who love Him.
It is love without limits.
Joy without end.
Home without exile.
This is what you are living toward.
Never forget it.
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered the human heart what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
1 CORINTHIANS 2:9