Points about Eternal Life

• "The first point about eternal life is
  that man is united with God.
  For God himself is the reward and end of all our labours....
  


• "Next it consists in
  perfect praise....
  


• "It also consists in
  the complete satisfaction of desire,
  for there the blessed will be given
  more than they wanted or hoped for....
  
  "Whatever is delightful
  is there in superabundance....
  


• "Again, eternal life consists of
  the joyous community of all the blessed,
  a community of supreme delight,
  since everyone will share
  all that is good
  with all the blessed.
  
  "Everyone will love everyone else as himself,
  and therefore will rejoice in another’s good as in his own.
  
  "So it follows
  that the happiness and joy of each
  grows in proportion to the joy of all."

From a conference by St Thomas Aquinas
(Office of the Readings)