Given the basic reality of humankind due to our being made by God, and that God has chosen to take our form, we have a final future which marks us. In that eternity, human beings will realize a final union with the Divine, and we shall join Jesus in his Paschal Mystery.
A Vocation to the Fullness of Dignity
20. The third conviction concerns the ultimate destiny of human beings. After the Creation and the Incarnation, Christ’s Resurrection reveals a further aspect of human dignity. Indeed, “the dignity of (humankind) rests above all on the fact that (they are) called to communion with God,”[Gaudium et Spes 19] destined to last forever.
St Irenaeus, the most recent Doctor of the Church, is cited:
Thus, “the dignity of this life is linked not only to its beginning, to the fact that it comes from God, but also to its final end, to its destiny of fellowship with God in knowledge and love of him. In the light of this truth, Saint Irenaeus qualifies and completes his praise of man: ‘the glory of God’ is indeed, ‘man, living man,’ but ‘the life of man consists in the vision of God.’”[John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae 38, quoting Irenaeus of Lyons, Adv. Haer. IV, 20, 7: PG 7, 1037-1038]
This vision of God is not limited to believers only, and human dignity is expanded yet further from our being made by God and God’s union with us in Jesus:
21. Consequently, the Church believes and affirms that all human beings—created in the image and likeness of God and recreated[Indeed, Christ has given the baptized a new dignity, that of being “sons of God”: cf. Catechism 1213, 1265, 1270, 1279] in the Son, who became man, was crucified, and rose again—are called to grow under the action of the Holy Spirit to reflect the glory of the Father in that same image and to share in eternal life (cf. Jn. 10:15-16, 17:22-24; 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 1:3-14). Indeed, “Revelation […] shows forth the dignity of the human person in all its fullness.”[Dignitatis Humanae 9]
Click this link to read the DDDF document on the Vatican site.
Catholic Sensibility 