Do Married Couples Stay Together in Heaven?

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Ammi said:
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Things like imperfect love, distraction, and jealousy are presumably not a part of Heaven, so I’m not sure why having two spouses would be an issue there.
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Well now you claim heaven will contain polygamy.
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Now I claim that polygamy something linked to the realities of this life. It is an earthly issue and there’s no reason to assume it is a heavenly one. Again, this is the kind of legal technicality I was referring to earlier.
 
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I better leave this thread with what I’ve said.

I am not understanding some of the reasoning with these concepts. Maybe because its sentimentally based. I really am not sure.
 
I think it’s largely because you are jumping from the idea that marriage as it is on earth ends straight to our bonds with everyone will be united to one another in the exact same way. While universal communion is what we are promised, it doesn’t preclude that the relationships are unique or that the bonds between ‘former’ spouses could be given a special place that either runs deeper or is in some way special.
 
But those kind of loving bonds that we can take with us into heaven is not exclusive to marriage. That could happen with any deep love for a friend or sister, or parent. It really isnt related to marriage, even though love for a spouse can be included.

Nevertheless, we will probably be so enlightened and filled with love that the way we relate to all others will be new and changed in a profound way.
 
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In addition to post #14 regarding the Mass Reading, the Nov. 10 introduction in World Library Publications Missalette states, “Poor Sadducees! Unable to imagine resurrection after one’s earthly life they instead imagine conundrums that make belief in resurrection look foolish. When someone remarries, who will be their spouse after the resurrection? Someone is going to be left out. Jesus patiently explains to them that this is not an issue in the coming age. The Sadducees have made the mistake of assuming resurrected life is a continuation of earthly life as they know it here on earth. Eternal life can be more wonderful than we can even imagine.”
 
Ammi said:
But those kind of loving bonds that we can take with us into heaven is not exclusive to marriage.
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How do we know that? I would think the bond between Jesus and Mary, his mother is exclusive. If a familial relationship continues into Heaven, I can see husband and wife having a unique relationship, even staying together, in a sense. In any case, the Church has not excluded this possibility.
 
That is a powerful claim, if marriage continues after death, the marriage vows in the Rite of the Church are lies.
 
TheLittleLady said:
That is a powerful claim, if marriage continues after death, the marriage vows in the Rite of the Church are lies.
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How is that? I have asked for examples, four times now, where the Church has defined what the relationship of two people are in Heaven. I am not saying the Church has said much about this, but no one has been able to do more than extrapolate for themselves various speculations. The Church cannot lie where the Church has not spoken.
 
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TheLittleLady said:
The vows are made for life, until death.
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Mary is a perpetual virgin. We know this despite the fact that she knew no man until she gave birth to Jesus. The word “until” does not mean something changes, only that a situation exists for that long. It is surely not enough to call something a lie based on one word in a vow.

Besides, the question is more about what aspects continue. At minimum, the legal dimension of marriage ceases, as this is seen both in the question of the Sadducees and canon law. The OP seems more concerned about whether there is a sense of togetherness that a married couple might share that is unique to them.
 
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Translations and adaptations of ancient languages to modern is a different thing all together.

The Church selects words in liturgy in a very careful manner, thus the changes we have seen in clarification. She does not use the phrases in the marriage rites just for the poetry of it.
 
That has to do with True Blessedness, not filial relations, or the Sacrament.

Luke 11

As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
 
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TheLittleLady said:
The Church selects words in liturgy in a very careful manner,
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Right. But the word “until” does not mean something ends at that point. The Church uses language carefully. But I do not agree that the wording of marriage rites lack a sense of poetry.

In any case, no one has yet to quote where the Church has spoken to this issue. Without that, we can swap opinions until the cows come home, or even claim the Church says thus, or thus, when she doesn’t.
 
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Right. But the word “until” does not mean something ends at that point. The Church uses language carefully. But I do not agree that the wording of marriage rites lack a sense of poetry.

In any case, no one has yet to quote where the Church has spoken to this issue. Without that, we can swap opinions until the cows come home, or even claim the Church says thus, or thus, when she doesn’t.
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'until death do us part" in marriage vows does indeed mean what it says and this is reinforced by Church teaching that the bonds of marriage are broken at death.
It means whatever happens in Heaven the spouses are not married.
 
I believe that although couples will not be “married” in heaven in the same way we are here on earth, there certainly will be a special connection with your spouse in some way which we don’t yet understand. I believe God understands that we all look forward to being with our loved ones in heaven. I think heaven will be a place where our love for each other will be perfected, whereas here on earth it is not right now.
 
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I believe that although couples will not be “married” in heaven in the same way we are here on earth, there certainly will be a special connection with your spouse in some way which we don’t yet understand. I believe God understands that we all look forward to being with our loved ones in heaven. I think heaven will be a place where our love for each other will be perfected, whereas here on earth it is not right now.
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How will that work with a woman who has been widowed several times.
 
TheLittleLady said:
While we will remember our families on earth, we will all be brother and sister. I will love my late husband the same as I love St John Paul II should I die I die in friendship with God.
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Interesting perspective and one that seems to be the basis of difference opinions on this thread. I do not dispute that our love for everyone will be perfect. I do no understand why this implies it will be the same towards everyone. Perhaps it will, but what do you base that on?

Here is an analogy:. In heaven, assuming we eat, I would expect every meal to be prepared perfectly. But I would not think every meal will taste the same.

Our intellectual capacity for knowledge will be greatly increased in heaven, but it won’t be infinite. So will we have the same knowledge of all people? I don’t know the answer, but perhaps not.

We do know marriage will not exist. We do not know that we will not different types of relationships with various people. The idea that it will be one universal community without any subdivisions may not be right. We may have something similiar to towns, cities, etc.

Why does perfection equate to equivalency? I think that is the underlying point. With regards to love, I do not know the answer.
 
Short answer, we can love all people with perfect love yet have different ways of interacting, relating to, them.
 
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