19 November, 2022 - Saturday

 Gospel : Lk 20: 27-40

Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,

came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us,

If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child,

his brother must take the wife

and raise up descendants for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers;

the first married a woman but died childless.

Then the second and the third married her,

and likewise all the seven died childless.

Finally the woman also died.

Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?

For all seven had been married to her.”

Jesus said to them,

“The children of this age marry and remarry;

but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age

and to the resurrection of the dead

neither marry nor are given in marriage.

They can no longer die,

for they are like angels;

and they are the children of God

because they are the ones who will rise.

That the dead will rise

even Moses made known in the passage about the bush,

when he called  ‘Lord’

the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

and he is not God of the dead, but of the living,

for to him all are alive.”

Some of the scribes said in reply,

“Teacher, you have answered well.”

And they no longer dared to ask him anything.

Reflections: 

As humans we are limited and are not able to grasp, what our brain is not capable of. Even our brains have different capacities, we know it. We are not able to perceive what is beyond the life we are in at this moment. Often, some persons use witchcraft to connect with other realms. Some see visions, and some understand some divine secrets becausee of gifts they receive from the Holy Spirit. All these things, just go to show the greatness and magnanimity of God, our Creator. But this God, is revealed to us by Jesus as one who has called us children. Love is the main factor which connects us, and helps us relate with God. For God all are alive -- the living and those gone ahead of us, and who knows, even the yet to be born!! May we be grateful for our lives, and give back to God this gift of life, in a worthy manner. 

Activity:

Write down why you would want to never exchange your present life with another person's life. Or would you? If so, write down what in the other person's life you would not want to have. 

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