Sunday,
November 10, 2013
32nd Sunday
in Ordinary Time
First Reading: 2 Mac 7:1-2, 9-14
Second Reading: 2 Thes 2:16–3:5
Gospel Reading:
Lk 20:27-38
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.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
As children of the resurrection, we are destined to live forever. The Sadducees challenged this teaching by coming to Jesus with the case of a woman who had been widowed seven times in her lifetime. Making a mockery of the resurrection they asked, “On the day of the resurrection, to which of them will the woman be wife? For the seven had her as wife.” Jesus struck down this mechanistic concept of the resurrection and remained firm in his teaching that human beings are destined to live forever.
The resurrection which imparts eternal life does not render this temporal life irrelevant. This life is not totally unrelated to the eternal life awaiting us beyond death. On the contrary, this life is the essential preparation of the real life we receive after the resurrection. If we squander this lifetime in activities that do not redound to our spiritual growth, death will find us unprepared for the eternal life that resurrection brings.
So let us live with dignity as children of the resurrection. We are destined to live forever. But we must show by the way we live this temporal life that we are interested in claiming this destiny.—Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
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