November 21, 2015
Saturday, 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
Feast of the Presentation of Mary
1st reading: 1 Mac 6:1-13
Gospel: Lk 20:27-40
Some Sadducees arrived. These people claim that there is no resurrection and they asked Jesus this question, “Master, in the Scripture Moses told us: ‘If anyone dies leaving a wife but no children, his brother must take the wife, and the child to be born will be regarded as the child of the deceased man.’
Now, there were seven brothers; the first married a wife, but he died without children; and the second and the third took the wife; in fact all se-ven died leaving no children. Last of all the woman died. On the day of the resurrection, to which of them will the woman be wife? For the seven had her as wife.”
And Jesus replied, “Ta-king husband or wife is proper to people of this world, but for those who are considered worthy of the world to come and of resurrection from the dead, there is no more marriage.
Besides, they cannot die for they are like the angels. They too are sons and daughters of God because they are born of the resurrection.
“Yes, the dead will be raised, and even Moses implied it in the passage about the burning bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. For he is God of the living and not of the dead, and for him all are alive.”
Some teachers of the Law then agreed with Jesus, “Master, you have spoken well.” They didn’t dare to ask him anything else.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
After the resurrection, all exclusive relationships, like marriage, will cease, for we shall all be absorbed in pure love for the God we will already see face to face. Priests have chosen not to marry in testimony of this future event. Through celibacy priests live as witnesses to a future mode of existence where there won’t be marrying anymore because ‘taking husband or wife is proper only to people of this world’ (Luke 20:27-40).
The logical thing to do is to maximize the limited period of marital life. Drinking buddies love to sing, “Sa la-ngit wala ang beer, that’s why we drink it here”. A good song for couples would be, “Sa langit Dyos na ang Dear, that’s why we do best here”. If you live every minute of your married life as if it were your last, your married life is your grand proclamation to the world that you are maximizing opportunities for marital life here because time will come when God will be the center of all our love.
With your marriage performed well and with priests ‘celibacy upheld in fidelity, we become joyous witnesses to the resurrection. — Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
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