535 Only in a wholly exceptional and unique way would Jesus show himself to Paul "as to one untimely born", in a last apparition that established him as an apostle. 534 Jesus' final apparition ends with the irreversible entry of his humanity into divine glory, symbolized by the cloud and by heaven, where he is seated from that time forward at God's right hand. 533 But during the forty days when he eats and drinks familiarly with his disciples and teaches them about the kingdom, his glory remains veiled under the appearance of ordinary humanity. "HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER"Ħ59 "So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God." 532 Christ's body was glorified at the moment of his Resurrection, as proved by the new and supernatural properties it subsequently and permanently enjoys. I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 1 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 2 ARTICLE 6 CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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