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GOSPEL POWER - NOVEMBER 21, 2020
GOSPEL POWER - NOVEMBER 21, 2020 - 33RD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Gospel: Lk 20:27-40
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.” Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.” Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” For they no longer dared to ask him another question. 33rd Week in Ordinary Time Presentation of Mary 33rd Week in Ordinary Time T he attempt of the Sadducees to disprove the resurrection is based not only on absurd human logic, but one in which God is noticeably absent. They are trapped in the impossibility of their fabricated case which excludes the Author of life in their imagined notion of the afterlife. Jesus responds with an immediate confirmation of the truth of the resurrection. It is a mystery that cannot be argued or proven with mere human logic. Since it is a revealed truth, Jesus turns to a Scriptural text which the conservative Sadducees consider authoritative and thus incontestable—the Exodus account of Moses and the burning bush (Ex 3:15). Resurrection is real, but conceivable only in God. For God alone possesses eternal life and bestows it on whomever he deems worthy.
Lord Jesus, thank you for assuring us that it is not hopeless void that awaits us after death. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER - NOVEMBER 21, 2020 - 33RD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Gospel: Lk 20:27-40
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.” Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.” Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” For they no longer dared to ask him another question. 33rd Week in Ordinary Time Presentation of Mary 33rd Week in Ordinary Time T he attempt of the Sadducees to disprove the resurrection is based not only on absurd human logic, but one in which God is noticeably absent. They are trapped in the impossibility of their fabricated case which excludes the Author of life in their imagined notion of the afterlife. Jesus responds with an immediate confirmation of the truth of the resurrection. It is a mystery that cannot be argued or proven with mere human logic. Since it is a revealed truth, Jesus turns to a Scriptural text which the conservative Sadducees consider authoritative and thus incontestable—the Exodus account of Moses and the burning bush (Ex 3:15). Resurrection is real, but conceivable only in God. For God alone possesses eternal life and bestows it on whomever he deems worthy.
Lord Jesus, thank you for assuring us that it is not hopeless void that awaits us after death. Amen.