What does the Catholic Church say about the resurrection of Christ?
The numeral 646 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church points out that “the Resurrection of Christ was not a return to earthly life as in the case of the resurrections that he had carried out before Easter: the daughter of Jairus, the young man of Naim, Lazarus. These events were miraculous events, but the people affected by the miracle once again had, through the power of Jesus, an ‘ordinary’ earthly life. At some point, they will die again.”
“The Resurrection of Christ is essentially different. In his resurrected body, he passes from the state of death to another life beyond time and space. In the Resurrection, Jesus’ body is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit; “He participates in the divine life in the state of his glory, so much so that Saint Paul can say of Christ that he is ‘the heavenly man,'” he adds.
Numeral 645 further points out that the body of the resurrected Jesus has “the new properties of a glorious body: it is not located in space or time, but it can be present at will wherever it wants and whenever it wants because its humanity can no longer be present. be retained on earth and no longer belongs to anything other than the divine domain of the Father.”