St. Paul and Thessaloniki
We had a question on St. Paul's 1st letter to the Thessalonians on the Facebook group I moderate: I found this group so helpful a few years back when I converted to the faith! I have a question that piggy backs off of another question recently asked about the second coming of Christ: I know we believe in the second coming of Christ and that, on the last day, the dead in Christ will rise first and then He will take the living. This might be silly, but the Bible refers to the dead in Christ as “those who have fallen asleep.” I believe in the communion of saints and that they intercede for us. They are obviously alive and conscious in Heaven with God after their Earthly death, right? Do we not have a physical body in Heaven? Why are the saints referred to as sleeping? It makes me think of Lazarus when Jesus says he is not dead, but sleeping. We are not really conscious while sleeping? Does the Catechism ever address what happens immediately after bodily death? This alway