MY daily reflection and prayer:
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Dear my friends,
Here is the Gospel for us today according to St. Luke 20:27-40
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; 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.” And some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” For they no longer dared to ask him any question.
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
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DO we believe in the resurrection and in the promise of eternal life with God? This is the main theme of today’s Gospel. The Sadducees 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.
Jesus defeats their arguments by showing that God is a living God of a living people. In the history of salvation, God is the friend of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That friendship can not cease with death.
In the Gospel of John we read, before Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he exclaimed, “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).
In the Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist we worship Jesus Christ who is the ultimate proof of the resurrection. He reveals to us the eternal truths of God’s unending love and the life he desires to share with us for all eternity. Let’s live now in the joy and hope of the life of the age to come.
Let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ, put your hands on our eyes also, for then we too shall begin to look not at what is seen but at what is not seen. Open our eyes that we are concerned not with the present but with what is yet to come. You are the resurrection and the life; we believe in you now and forever. Amen.
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