November 24, 2018 Saturday, 33rd Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading: Rv 11:4-12 Gospel: Lk 20:27–40
Some Sadducees arrived. These people claim that there is noresurrection and they asked Jesus this question, “Master, in theScripture Moses told us: ‘If anyone dies leaving a wife but nochildren, his brother must take the wife, and the child to be bornwill be regarded as the child of the deceased man.’ Now, there wereseven brothers; the first married a wife, but he died withoutchildren; and the second and the third took the wife; in fact allseven died leaving no children. Last of all the woman died. On the dayof the resurrection, to which of them will the woman be wife? For theseven had her as wife.”And Jesus replied, “Taking husband or wife is proper to people ofthis world, but for those who are considered worthy of the world tocome and of resurrection from the dead, there is no more marriage.Besides, they cannot die for they are like the angels. They too aresons and daughters of God because they are born of the resurrection.“Yes, the dead will be raised, and even Moses implied it in thepassage about the burning bush, where he calls the Lord the God ofAbraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. For he is God of theliving and not of the dead, and for him all are alive.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
After the resurrection, all exclusive human relationships, even marriage, shall cease. This seems to be the message of Jesus when he said that, “for those who are considered worthy of the world tocome and of resurrection from the dead, there is no more marriage.”
Love will unite us all as we enjoy God’s beatific vision. In testimony of this, priests have chosen not to marry. Through celibacy priests live as witnesses to the other world where people do not take husbands or wives. Celibacy, so imbedded at the core of the priest’s spirituality, is a reminder to people of the reality of the after-life.
People won’t be marrying anyone anymore in the next life, for‘taking husband or wife is proper only to people of this world’ (Luke20:27-40). So do your best to live your married life to the full. Drunkards say, “Sa langit wala nang beer, that’s why I drink it here”. A husband also say to his wife: “Sa langit wala nang “dear”…., that’s why let’s do best here”. This way marriage becomes a witness to a better status in heaven as all exclusivity in relationships among creatures cease before the mighty presence of God.
With your marriage performed well and with priests ‘celibacy upheld in fidelity, we become joyous witnesses to the resurrection. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M. Email: [email protected].
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