St. Raphael of Lesvos on happiness and the soul's immortality.

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Would you like to be happy for a long time? It seems like happiness disappears almost as quickly as it develops. But let’s take it further: would you like to be happy forever?

St. Raphael of Lesvos tells us how, and says it’s linked to the immortality of the soul:

Happy is the Christian who studies and follows the teaching of Christ. He is happy in this temporary life and in the life after death. Yes, he will be happy after death, because the soul does not vanish after death, is not perishable like the body, but continues to live, to exist. Through death, it is simply separated from the perishable body.

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