MY daily reflection and prayer:
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear my friends,
Here is the Gospel for us today according to St. Luke 20:27-38
There came to him some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died without children; and the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. Afterward the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”
And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage; 35 but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him.”
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
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The Gospel today tells us about the Sadducees who come to Jesus with a test question to make the resurrection look ridiculous. They do not believe in immortality, nor in angels or evil spirits because their religion is literally grounded in an earthly image of heaven.
Jesus Christ retorts them by dealing with the fact of the resurrection. He tells them that the scriptures accurately give proof of it. Quoting Exodus 3:6, Jesus Christ tells them that when God manifests his presence to Moses in the burning bush, He tells him that He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
By quoting this texts, Jesus Christ shows that the patriarchs who have died hundreds of years previously are still alive in God. So, Jesus Christ defeats their arguments by showing that God is a living God of a living people.
Now, in our Christian faith, the ultimate proof of the resurrection is Jesus Christ himself. He has conquered sin and death and is alive forevermore. when he rose from the tomb. Even, he has exclaimed, saying, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25). With this word, Jesus Christ reveals to us the eternal truths of God’s unending love and the eternal life he desires to share with us for all eternity.
In the Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist we adore Jesus Christ who has revealed himself as the resurrection and the life for us. There we begin to taste the heavenly eternal life with him. Do we believe in the resurrection and in the promise of eternal life with him?
Let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to restore Paradise and promised everlasting life for us all. May we always trust in your mercy so that we have eternal life forever and ever. Amen.
