Christ buried in a borrowed tomb

Saturday, November 19, 2016 33rd Week in
Ordinary Time First
Reading: Rv 11: 4-12 Gospel Reading: 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 seven 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, “Taking 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.”

D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)

A Catechism teacher asks a boy why Jesus was buried inside a borrowed tomb. They just had a lesson about Joseph of Arimathea, the wealthy Pharisee who owned the tomb borrowed for Jesus’ burial. The boy thinks for a while and replies, “He didn’t need to own one because he needed it only for three days.” The boy is right. Jesus had no permanent place among the dead. Of this St. Paul testified: “He (Jesus) has been raised on the third day according to Scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:4).

Our God is God of the living (Luke 20:39). He couldn’t die. But how could he share eternity with us if we just end up in the grave? He had to fetch us at the grave, and so he experienced death himself. The resurrection is the necessary consequence of the fact that he cannot die. Thanks to this difficult feat we have become heirs to eternal life.

But this inheritance is automatically waived by choosing a life of evil. Justice demands that an evil person whose deeds create eternal havoc upon the living should have no share in eternity. By their own choice they die forever. These are the people who really need to own a tomb. –(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM., MAPM., MMExM., REB., Email: [email protected].

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