Trying to understand marriage after mortality

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I’m in RCIA and still trying to understand a lot of things about Catholicism, so pardon my ignorance. I’m trying to get an understanding about marriage after this mortality. I read this article with the following quote:
According to this vision, marriage does not come to a complete end at death but is transfigured, spiritualized, freed from the limits that mark life on earth, as also the ties between parents and children or between friends will not be forgotten. In a preface for the dead the liturgy proclaims: “Life is transformed, not taken away.” Even marriage, which is part of life, will be transfigured, not nullified.
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You can read the whole article here:

https://zenit.org/articles/father-cantalamessa-on-marriage-in-heaven/
 
Sounds like a good explanation. Of course once the resurrection occurs we’ll have our new bodies. Then, will we still have children? Or will humanity cease to propagate?
 
Matthew 22:30 “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.”

There will be no propagation of new life by us in heaven. Whether God will continue to create life in other ways or places…only He knows.

The following is my opinion not official Church teaching…The angels where not created in heaven, but underwent a test as did humanity. Being in the Divine Presence of God in the beautific vision requires the freewill to love him or reject him. Any new child born in heaven would be forced to be in his presence when he did not freely choose it. God does not force himself upon us, therefore he will not create new life directly in heaven.
 
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TO BE CLEAR,

Matt.22.30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
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READ Gen 1: 26-27 and we are taught that GOD choose to create man in His Own Image

Then John 4:23-24 tells us that “GOD IS SPIRIT”

This seemingly contradiction can be explained that at our conception [all of which ARe God approved]; GOD gifts every human Soul with a mind, intellect and freewill; which similar to GOD are Spiritual realities and immortal.

So when we die and our bodies decompose; our Souls, complete with out minds, intellects and freewill 's either ascend OR descend, based on our lifes choices to spead Eternity in our choice of after life.

In heaven the still RATIONAL Soul will know all that they knew on earth who make it to heaven; BUT their will no such thing as “marriage”; as ALL we will desire to do is THANK & Glorify God.

Hope that clears it up for you,
Patrick
 
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So when we die and our bodies decompose; our Souls, complete with out minds, intellects and freewill 's either ascend OR descend, based on our life’s choices to spend Eternity in our choice of after life.
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Yes, our bodies decompose.

BUT, we Catholics believe in the resurrection of the body. This is important to keep in mind and make clear.
 
Well of course people who loved each other in earthly life continue to share a “bond” after death, duh. Heaven doesn’t erase your memory.

It’s the earthly conception of/ institution of marriage that comes to an end, allowing the surviving spouse to seek a new helpmate on earth.
 
So the OP which stated that marriage does not come to an end is false?
 
He didn’t say the earthly conception didn’t come to an end. He said marriage is transfigured into something else in Heaven, which it is.
People still have emotional bonds to each other there, but they do not have sex, do not bear children, and there is no exclusivity or jealousy there.
 
I guess I’m not sure what is confusing about it. We know our bodies are transformed when we die and go to heaven; we receive a body like Jesus had after the Resurrection. We don’t have sex with these new bodies, there’s no need to. That right there would change the nature of earthly marriage, which is focused on two people in a partnership committing to have sex only with each other and in that way, procreating. Having that function go away would necessarily transfigure a marital relationship. You’d obviously still love and have an attachment to a person you were in love with and joined in marriage with on earth.
 
1 Corinthians 15:44
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.
 
Lemuel said:
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Lemuel:
marriage does not come to a complete end at death but is transfigured
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That’s what he said and that’s the part that confuses me.
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The physical component, ends. Love is a spiritual element and physical contact will no longer be necessary for transmission or exchange between individuals. I think.

That’s what he said and that’s the part that confuses me.
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