Are the "blessed" really in heaven with absolute assurance?

[surritter]

Our diocese will be honored next week as the site of a Beatification Mass (for Fr. Solanus Casey). In preparation for this, the pastor of a nearby parish recently wrote, “With his beatification, we have the assurance of the Church that he is in heaven praying with and for us to this very day.”

Is it true that someone who is beatified but not yet canonized is absolutely, positively in Heaven?
I thought that’s what canonization was for! (Many who are beatified do go on to be canonized, but it’s certainly possible for a Blessed to never be formally canonized.)

 

[Lovinglight]

I think youre right in that the Beatification is a good indicator that a person is in heaven but its the Cannonization (miracles) that prove it.

 

[surritter]

Further info… I read somewhere that a Blessed gets to be honored in his/her diocese or country (and/or religious order, if the person was a religious). So I’m thinking that the beatification isn’t the absolute assurance of sainthood that canonization is, but sort of a partial assurance for a local group, if that makes sense.