204. What is the relationship between the Resurrection of Christ and our resurrection?Just as Christ is truly risen from the dead and now lives forever, so he himself will raise everyone on the last day with an incorruptible body: "Those who have done good will rise to the resurrection of life and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation" (
John 5:29).
Further reading: CCC 998, 1002-1003205. What happens to our body and our soul after death?
After death, which is the separation of the body and the soul, the body becomes corrupt while the soul, which is immortal, goes to meet the judgment of God and awaits its reunion with the body when it will rise transformed at the time of the return of the Lord.
How the resurrection of the body will come about exceeds the possibilities of our imagination and understanding.
Further reading: CCC 992-1004, 1016-1018206. What does it mean to die in Christ Jesus?
Dying in Christ Jesus means to die in the state of God's grace without any mortal sin. A believer in Christ, following his example, is thus able to transform his own death into an act of obedience and love for the Father. "This saying is sure: if we have died with him, we will also live with him" (2
Timothy 2:11).
Further reading: CCC 992-1004, 1016-1018