«It is characteristic of the son to have the likeness of his father. And it has been explained in that it is the likeness and the image of man, the adoptive child of God, with the heavenly Father. And it has also been said with what means and behind what example can man achieve more and more likeness with the eternal Perfection. It has finally been given as a truth that those who live according to the spirit can call God: "Father", and call Him with the voice most pleasing to Him: that of Jesus who with His spirit dwells in the children of God.
However, a father does not only give his love and likeness to his children. He also gives his riches and his inheritance.
The First Person of the most holy Triad, just as He gives the Kingdom and the possession of everything which is in Heaven and upon the Earth to the Son consubstantial to the Father, so He also gives participation in the Kingdom and possession of the Son to His adoptive children and brothers in the flesh of Jesus. He has already given participation in the divine life by means of Grace to men. He has already given participation to men in the treasures of Christ by means of the life in the Mystical Body. However, beyond earthly existence, He wants to give participation in the celestial goods, the co-inheritance with Christ.
These are the gifts and the desire of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, the Three who, as They are One only, so They also have one thought, one sole will, and one sole love.
What must the desire of the adoptive children be in connection to God's? The same: participation in the divine life through faith in Grace and union to the mystical Body, and a life lived in order to achieve the ultimate end: participation in, and co-inheritance of the celestial goods.
And given that it has been seen how there is no victory without a struggle, how one cannot have an adorned garment nor a glorious palm without sorrow and without the cross - the means by which Christ was exalted by the Father after the supreme humiliation and obedience - just as you justly desire being co-heirs of the celestial Kingdom of which the Lamb of God, the Word Incarnate, is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, so you must also desire being co-heirs of His part made of sorrow, immolation, humiliation, and obedience. Because only in this way will you be able to be glorified with Him, the most Victorious and Glorious One.
Brief, always brief is the earthly trial compared to eternity. Relative, always relative is the suffering and the cross compared to the celestial and infinite joy as in all things that come from God, for those who are now in the knowledge of God "His children and co-heirs".
What is the reward of the blessed? To have God. It is, therefore, not erroneous to say that it will be an infinite joy, because God is infinite, and in the Revelation of Him, of His Mystery, the blessed will delight in a joy without limit and thus, an infinite joy.
Equally: earthly humiliations will always be relative in comparison with that glory which will manifest itself in the elect when God will communicate to these, in full and perfect measure, His Greatness, Beauty, Knowledge, His Fire of Love, His Light, and all His Attributes, all those Goods, those glories, and those virtues which He tends to communicate in a relative form, proportioned to the living being, and always vaster, deeper and higher as the living being rises in the supernatural life and empties himself and all things in order to receive God while man is still on Earth.
Then and only then, at the end of time, and when the risen bodies of the saints will be taken up to glory and reunited to their already blessed and glorified spirit will creation, waiting for milleniums, see the revelation of the children of God. That which the children of God would always have been from the beginning, if at the beginning, the first of these had not sinned by disfiguring the perfect Creation made by God with a sacrilegious, humiliating and sorrowful Stain.
Only then will everything be restored the way God had first conceived them to be before creating them. And having cast out the devil and his servants into the eternal abyss without freedom to escape or to act any longer forever and ever, and with the Prince of evil - through whom, together with sin, sorrow and death entered into the world - with death and sorrow also disappearing from creation, the things of before will cease to be; the things which were good, beautiful, without mournings and miseries, without savageries and lies, without malice and corruption, and which Satan and the weakness of Man and of men had defiled and rendered evil, sorrowful, cruel, sly and corrupt.
And it will be the new world, with the eternal Jerusalem, the new eternal world where it will no longer be possible for Satan to penetrate, where it will no longer be possible for sorrow to torture, for malice to trouble, and for violence to harm and give death.
It will be the great revelation of the children, of the eternal People of God, that revelation whose magnificence only God who knows and sees everything from eternity, knows and sees in His Thought and with the eye of the Word, through whom [Jesus] even all the children of God will have the perfect revelation of God and will see and know Him without any limits of any kind.»