Resurrection wounds

[hansard]

I’ve seen it many times around here that Jesus still has his wounds in Heaven, even though he has a glorified body. (I have to say I don’t believe it, but whatever…)

It is fortunate, in a pragmatic sense, that crucifixion left his body intact. Had the preferred punishment been beheading, it would have surely created problems.

Does this apply to all of the faithful at the final resurrection? Will everyone keep their wounds, or is this just a distincton reserved for the lord? It would provide the same logistical problems: people have been devoured by crocodiles, blown apart in battle, incinerated in fires, and so on; keeping one’s wounds might entirely negate the idea of a “glorified” body!

Just thinking out loud.

 

[Spencerian]

I’ve seen it many times around here that Jesus still has his wounds in Heaven, even though he has a glorified body. (I have to say I don’t believe it, but whatever…)

It is fortunate, in a pragmatic sense, that crucifixion left his body intact. Had the preferred punishment been beheading, it would have surely created problems.

Does this apply to all of the faithful at the final resurrection? Will everyone keep their wounds, or is this just a distincton reserved for the lord? It would provide the same logistical problems: people have been devoured by crocodiles, blown apart in battle, incinerated in fires, and so on; keeping one’s wounds might entirely negate the idea of a “glorified” body!

Just thinking out loud.

Hi, hansard.

I don’t believe that Catholic teaching indicates absolutely that our glorified bodies will show injury as Christ’s glorified body did. Perhaps He preferred this to aid with any doubt that He had truly risen from the dead. A body without any injury might have left the Apostles far more concerned that there was some elaborate fraud going on.

That said, Catholic teaching does indicate that, no matter how our body’s form took at the time of our death, that our bodies will be transformed into a glorified form when the right time comes. Cremation or decapitation or any other grievous injury will not matter. See this link from St. Thomas Aquina’s Summa Theologica on his various objections and answers regarding Christ’s resurrected body and why it showed scars (wow, I really need to read this–what I’ve scanned in this excerpt is** blowing. my. mind.**)

I would like to think that those who have suffered injury in the saving of a life might show a mark or trace of that injury as a “reward” of their selflessness, but that is only opinion.