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Faith Q&A › Catechism › 3. The Church as a Heavenly Wedding Feast

What is our role in getting ready for the heavenly wedding?

The answer

The believer gets ready for the eternal wedding all his days of sojourn on earth, so that he grows in his understanding of the faith, his personal and communal worship, his spiritual struggle, his fellowship with the heavenlies and his relationship with his brethren. “For if (Christ’s resurrection) opened the gates of hell, and threw wide the archways of Heaven, and made a new entrance into Paradise, and cut away the nerves of the devil; what marvel, if it prevailed over poisonous drugs, and venomous beasts, and all other such things.”986

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty

Notes

986 St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of St Matthew 54.7 (NPNF I/10:322).

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty, Catechism of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Volume 1, Books 1–3. First English Edition, 2023. Published by St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Sporting, Alexandria, and Queen St. Mary & Prince Tadros Coptic Orthodox Church, South Brunswick, NJ. Copyright © 2023. Translation and Editing: Youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Arabian Gulf, and Egypt.