Whether the Blessed in Heaven Enjoy Perfect Memory?

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Well, there is the universal legend of the draft of forgetfulness (Lethe, in Greek myth?), but that could just be that ghosts can’t remember.

I would assume so, in Heaven, at least after the bodily Resurrection–hard to say, about the minds of disembodied spirits. How much of memory is brain, and how much mind?

As to Hell, I doubt it–even if their memories are restored perfectly at the Resurrection, they’ll still delude themselves. That’s what humans do when they sin.

Forgetting and misremembering are luxuries, by the way, that demons lack–they don’t think, per se, so there’s no way they can believe in anything, even a falsehood. Hell’s much worse for demons, and worst of all for Satan, since he’s got the most intellect to devote to how nasty hell is.
 
I think if you check out the Catechism of the Catholic Church 314 you will find it teaches that partial knowledge ceases, that we will fully know the ways by which -even through the drama of evil and sin- God has guided his creation to that definitive sabbath rest. Also Lk. 8:17; 12:2; Mk. 4:22;1Jn. 3:10;Mt. 10:26; 1Cor. 13:9-12.
My thought is that for us finite creatures to see God in all His infinite glory, to see Him as He is, we will need an infinite amount of help, grace, and it is therefore impossible for us to not know everything else because then the grace to see God would not be infinite if more is needed to know everything in history, everybody’s freewill decisions and sins. Do you agree that Priests and parents should emphasize more the truth that, EVEN IF WE GET TO HEAVEN, we will have sorrow for each and everysin we ever committed, ( along with each and every sin of all other sinners, just like Jesus had,(has) on the cross with perfect peace and joy) because in heaven we will be filled with all the gifts and fruits of the spirit and sorrow for sin is a virtue we will possess with no partial knowledge?
 
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