He wished also to reassure His spouse, to give her pledges of this blest possession of glory, that, compassed by this hope, she might traverse gaily the toiling bitterness of life; and that the spouse might hold as certain and assured this hope of blessedness, He left her this ineffable treasure as a pledge, equal in itself to all she hopes for.  Thus she need never despair of God giving all to her in that state of glory and of spiritual existence, since He does not refuse it to her here in this valley of tears where she lives in the flesh. –St Peter Alcantara ‘Treatise on Prayer and Meditation’

The spouse is the Church.