"which of these will be her husband, since she was wife to all seven?"(Luke. 20:33)

"which of these will be her husband, since she was wife to all seven?"(Luke. 20:33)
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When Jesus went about preaching His Gospel,

ordinary people followed Him

to listen to His words and to get cured by Him.

But the elite like the Pharisees
and Sadducees

followed Him to find fault with Him

and trap Him by their questions.

The Sadducees had no belief in the resurrection of the dead. 

In order to trap Jesus with a question,

they came to Him with a story.

Seven brothers  die without having any children. 

After each one dies, the next takes the first brother’s wife as his own. 

In the end the woman also dies.

They ask Jesus,

“Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?”

  They meant to trick  Jesus into inability to answer the question.

If He answered "wife to seven " it would be against His own teaching, "One man,  one wife."

If He answered, "Wife to the first husband"

they could challenge Him with another question,

"What about other husbands, accepted as per Mosaic law? "

But His answer undermined their attempt to trap Him.

Jesus answered, "The children of this world marry and are given in marriage;  .......

(But the children of the next world) will be as the angels in heaven are,

children of God,

now that the resurrection has given them birth."

According to Jesus we will  be  only  as children of God.

In heaven.

A husband will recognize his wife,

but both will be related to God as His children,

and they will be like Angels,

with no physical relationship with one another.

As we all will be united with  God in heaven,

we  will also be united with our loved ones

but that will a spiritual union.

How will be heaven?

St. Paul says,

"So we read of,

Things no eye has seen,

no ear has heard,

no human heart conceived,

the welcome God has prepared for those who love him."
(1 Corinthians 2:9-10) 

Heaven is not a physical place
that can be measured or located in any part of the universe.

After resurrection 

we will be like angels, or spiritual beings,

and so we won’t occupy any physical space.

According to St. John Paul II,

"heaven  will be a living, personal relationship with the Holy Trinity.

It is our meeting with the Father

which takes place in the risen Christ

through the communion of the Holy Spirit”

This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity is called ‘heaven.’

St. Augustine says it

simply and beautifully with these words:

“Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in you.”

Heaven is where we will rest totally and perpetually in God.

We began being one with Christ when we were baptized.

We made efforts to continue this union

by loving God and our neighbour,

by avoiding sin,

by our good works,

by our prayers

and

by receiving Our Lord Himself through Holy Communion.

This union will reach its perfect state only in heaven. 

At end of the world,

God will  gather to himself all his children

scattered throughout the world and history.

After the last judgment,

Jesus will say to us,

"Come,

you, that have received a blessing from my Father,

take possession of the kingdom

which has been prepared for you

since the foundation of the world."

We believe that we have been created only for heaven.

We hope that we will surely be there

at the end of our life in this world

with the grace of God.

Our only work in heaven will be

loving God

and

loving one another

in union with God

as His children.

Lourdu Selvam