When people were resurrected from the dead where were their souls?

[Spencerian]

I believe that Limbo (bosom of Abraham as it’s being called here) was where souls went prior to Christ’s resurrection. When Christ died the Creed says he descended into hell. I’m not sure if Limbo was a waiting place in hell…what I do know is that since His resurrection there’s been no Limbo. Only heaven, hell and purgatory.
People that died after Christ’s resurrection and ascension and were brought to life on earth again? I would say that soul definitely didn’t go to hell, because no soul can ever leave hell. So, it’d have to be either purgatory or heaven. The blessed Mother has made appearances on earth as have other saints. I don’t know, though.
I have another question…Scenario: the Transfiguration. Jesus spoke with Moses, the Father and Abraham. If the gates of heaven weren’t open until the crucifixion, where were Moses and Abraham? In limbo?

The better way to describe the state where Moses, Elijah and others would have been prior to the Passion was the “Limbo of the Fathers.” That, too, is another word for “Abraham’s Bosom.” But don’t confuse it with the concept of the Post-Resurrrection state of limbo (note the small “L”).

This Catholic Answers magazine keyword searchThis Rock clarifies many of the questions and misconceptions about the teaching of limbo. Limbo was never a doctrine or dogma but is still supported as a possible state by the Church.

 

[Benadam]

The body that will no longer be animated decays and returns to it’s former state the bible aptly calls dust. The soul becomes fixed. It enters into a state of changelessness. Fit to judge. If the body will be animated again before that process is complete and the soul hasn’t gone anywhere but has returned to a state of becoming having re-united with it’s body. We are not fit to judge while in a state of becoming. At any rate what the soul may have experienced while seperated is what St Paul described.

***2 I know a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), 4 That he was caught up into paradise, and heard secret words, which it is not granted to man to utter. 5 For such an one I will glory; but for myself I will glory nothing, but in my infirmities. ***

The experience of loss is a common state. Every seperated soul goes there.There we are fit to judge. So the state that commonly follows is judgement. It doesn’t go there if it is destined to return to a state of becoming. What is experienced untill it does is probably as personal as the experience of death it’self.

 

[Coder]

To the O.P., it may be a mistake to think in terms of the concept of time. Perhaps Lazarus experienced death and immediate reunion with his body from his perspective while time passed here on earth. This is speculation and I don’t claim to know. The Trinity knew that Lazarus would be raised. Perhaps God instilled in Lazarus some form of knowledge of what was happening to him when he passed and I think that this also could be outside of our concept of time.