All Souls Day

November 02, 2015
ALL SOULS
First Reading: Wis 3;1-9
Second Reading:
Rom 6:3-4, 8-9
Gospel Reading: Matthew 25:31-46
Jesus said to his disciples, “When the Son of Man comes in his glory with all his angels, he will sit on the throne of his Glory. All the nations will be brought before him, and as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, so will he do with them, placing the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.”The King will say to those on his right: ‘Come, blessed of my Father! Take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me into your house. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to see me.'”Then the good people will ask him: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and give you food; thirsty and give you drink, or a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to see you?’ The King will answer, ‘Truly, I say to you: whenever you did this to these little ones who are my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.'”Then he will say to those on his left: ‘Go, cursed people, out of my sight into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels! For I was hungry and you did not give me anything to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink; I was a stranger and you did not welcome me into your house; I was naked and you did not clothe me; I was sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'”They, too, will ask: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, thirsty, naked or a stranger, sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ The King will answer them: ‘Truly, I say to you: whatever you did not do for one of these little ones, you did not do for me.’ “And these will go into eternal punishment, but the just to eternal life.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Sappho, one of the great Ancient Greek poets, argued that death is evil in this wise: “Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.” Albeit logical, this does not apply to our God. While pagan gods avoided death, our God died for real. As a result he snatched death away from Satan’s dominion and turned it into a Christian tool of cleansing. In the hands of Christians, death is now broad enough to include spiritual acts of self-denial and personal sacrifices in atonement for sins.
Only in faith will one recognize death this way. Those without faith see death as evil because their god has judged death to be so. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM., MAPM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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