0 appearing happy and calm, especially in a holy way:
Then they do indeed ' see ' in an intellectual vision, which is not a beatific vision, however, but a painful one of horror, terror, and despair.
They aren't sufficient conditions, because we cannot earn or merit the beatific vision by performing them.
But surely the beatific vision would expand our capacity to love, not limit it.
For by their very nature evil wills cannot ' learn ' (' improve ', become ' better ') or do the good by choice and reach the intellectual beatific vision.
The beatific face, the present-yet-absent state, and the process of achieving them seemed difficult or impossible to describe, and mysterious.
The beatific smile that lit up his face every time he recalled a trip he had made in a jet or helicopter was particularly warming.
Why is this going to promote a beatific attitude in the coalfields and that spirit of harmony and friendship which we are all so anxious to bring about?
For some, it is the seat of beatific vision.
