CCC 1721

God put us in the world to know, to love, and to serve him, and so to come to paradise. Beatitude makes us "partakers of the divine nature" and of eternal life.²¹ 2 Pet 1:4; cf. Jn 17:3. With beatitude, man enters into the glory of Christ²² Cf. Rom 8:18. and into the joy of the Trinitarian life.