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32nd Sunday of
Ordinary Time
November 10, 2013
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Luke 20:27-38
Some Sadducees asked, “Teacher,
Moses wrote for us that if a mans brother
dies, leaving a wife but no children, the
man shall marry the widow and raise up
children for his brother. Now there were
seven brothers; the first married, and
died childless; then the second and the
third married her, and so in the same
way all seven died childless. Finally the
woman also died. In the resurrection,
therefore, whose wife will the woman be?
For the seven had married her.” Jesus
said to them, “Those who belong to this
age marry and are given in marriage; but
those who are considered worthy of a
place in that age and in the resurrection
from the dead neither marry nor are
given in marriage. Indeed they cannot
die anymore, because they are like
angels and are children of God, being
children of the resurrection. And the fact
that the dead are raised Moses himself
showed, in the story about the bush,
where he speaks of the Lord as the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the
dead, but of the living; for to him all of
them are alive.”
Reflection
The Sadducees was a group who did not
believe in resurrection, so they presented
a story of the afterlife using worldly
ideas in order to disprove it. However,
resurrection involves transformation. We
don’t know what our resurrected ‘bodies’
will be like, but the scriptures tell us that
we will be transformed in ways that we
can barely imagine or comprehend. That
is Jesus’ point to the Sadducees. God
is a God of the living. Let us be mindful
of those who have gone before us. May
their lives inspire us to be transformed
into people of love.
Prayer
In silence, let us pray for those we love
whom have died. For the innocent who
lost their lives years before their time.
For those who through serious illness
are close to death.
Amen.
november
2013