Unit 3:

Heaven Is Our Eternal Reward

Lesson 1:

Heaven Is Our Definitive Home

 Objectives:
• Explain that • Bear witness to • Pray that they
heaven is our a life of grace may deserve
definitive home by faithfully to enter your
where life is doing the will of heavenly
everlasting. God and; home.
Activity:
In a whole sheet of paper, draw a
thing that symbolizes heaven for
you. At the back of your paper,
write your explanation about it.
 HEAVEN Terminologies
IS OUR toDEFINITIVE
describe Heaven:
HOME

• Fullness of life • Life of the world

• Everlasting life
(which Christ to come (as we
promised profess in the
whoever believes Nicene Creed)
in Him)
St. Augustine said…
“We are citizens of
this world and
citizens of heaven at
the same time.”
We need to prepare for heaven
because it offers eternal bliss and
definitive home for us. It is our
definitive home where our beloved
ones who have gone ahead of us share
the company of the saints, angels our
Mother Mary and especially the Holy
Trinity in perfect love and glory.
C a t h o l i c Te a c h i n g s :

1. Heaven is “a state of being with the Lord”.

(Thessalonians 4:17)
*In heaven, the blessed enjoy everlasting life.
C a t h o l i c Te a c h i n g s :

2. The Bible or the Sacred Scripture describes

Heaven as the state of existence of the soul
in perfect happiness.
C a t h o l i c Te a c h i n g s :

Descriptions of Heaven
according to Biblical Authors:
C a t h o l i c Te a c h i n g s :

Matthew 19:16; 25:46

Heaven is eternal life.
C a t h o l i c Te a c h i n g s :
James 1:12
Heaven is the crown of life.

1 Peter 5:4
Heaven is the unfading crown of glory.
C a t h o l i c Te a c h i n g s :
St. Paul -1 Corinthians 9:25
Heaven is the imperishable crown.

Ephesians 1:18
Heaven is the riches of glory.
C a t h o l i c Te a c h i n g s :

Liturgical Images to describe

Everlasting Life:
“to find rest”
“perpetual light”
C a t h o l i c Te a c h i n g s :

“Eternal rest grant unto them O, Lord

and let Your perpetual light shine
upon them.”
“May they rest in peace. Amen.”
How can we receive our eternal
reward- Heaven?

Keep the Lord’s Commandments

Do good.
Participating in the Holy Eucharist as a
foretaste of Heavenly Banquet.
7 Corporal Works of Mercy