November 20, 2013 – Catechism 2794 – 2802

These paragraphs got me thinking about when Paul ask me where Heaven is.  I was trying to think about how to answer that when I don’t fully grasp the full idea of “where Heaven is”.  We always think it is up, but that is sky and space.  I am sure some people have thought it was on the dark side of the moon because we can never see that, but we have been there now (allegedly) and Armstrong didn’t see any angels.  God is in Heaven, we say Mary is in Heaven, body and soul, Christ is there, body and soul, yet He is here in the Eucharist, if bodies are in Heaven, it must be a physical place, but not a physical place that you can get to in the physical universe we could theoretically travel to.  Is Heaven on the other side of the edge of the universe and just always stays there.  Maybe Heaven is in the center of Jupiter or the Sun.  If it is a physical place just outside the physical universe, how fast can souls travel to reach it after we die.  Once you decide where Heaven is, where is Hell, where is Purgatory.  It is always pictured with puffy clouds and golden gates, but is that just because we really have no idea.  Depictions of Olympus were very similar.  They just thought it was at the top of a mountain they couldn’t climb, but we have climbed our tallest mountains and not seen a golden thrown.  Interested to know what you would answer a child if they asked you where Heaven is.