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November 6, 2010
November 7th Holy Spirit Novena
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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 Maccabees 7: 1-2, 9-14
It also happened that seven brothers were arrested with their mother. The king tried to force them to taste some pork, which the Law forbids, by torturing them with whips and scourges. One of them, acting as spokesman for the others, said, 'What are you trying to find out from us? We are prepared to die rather than break the laws of our ancestors.'
With his last breath he exclaimed, 'Cruel brute, you may discharge us from this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up, since we die for his laws, to live again for ever.'
After him, they tortured the third, who on being asked for his tongue promptly thrust it out and boldly held out his hands, courageously saying, 'Heaven gave me these limbs; for the sake of his laws I have no concern for them; from him I hope to receive them again.' The king and his attendants were astounded at the young man's courage and his utter indifference to suffering.
When this one was dead they subjected the fourth to the same torments and tortures. When he neared his end he cried, 'Ours is the better choice, to meet death at men's hands, yet relying on God's promise that we shall be raised up by him; whereas for you there can be no resurrection to new life.'
Psalm 17: 1, 5-6, 8, 15
Prayer Of David
Listen, Yahweh, to an upright cause,
pay attention to my cry,
lend an ear to my prayer,
my lips free from deceit.my steps never stray from the paths you lay down,
from your tracks; so my feet never stumble.
I call upon you, God, for you answer me;
turn your ear to me, hear what I say.Guard me as the pupil of an eye,
shelter me in the shadow of your wingsBut I in my uprightness will see your face,
and when I awake I shall be filled with the vision of you.
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who has given us his love and, through his grace, such ceaseless encouragement and such sure hope, encourage you and strengthen you in every good word and deed.
Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord's message may spread quickly, and be received with honour as it was among you; and pray that we may be preserved from bigoted and evil people, for not everyone has faith. You can rely on the Lord, who will give you strength and guard you from the evil One, and we, in the Lord, have every confidence in you, that you are doing and will go on doing all that we tell you. May the Lord turn your hearts towards the love of God and the perseverance of Christ.
Some Sadducees-those who argue that there is no resurrection-approached him and they put this question to him, 'Master, Moses prescribed for us, if a man's married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother. Well then, there were seven brothers; the first, having married a wife, died childless. The second and then the third married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children. Finally the woman herself died. Now, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since she had been married to all seven?'
Jesus replied, 'The children of this world take wives and husbands, but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry because they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are children of God. And Moses himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord 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 everyone is alive.'
32nd
Sunday in Ordinary Time
November 11, 2007
INTRODUCTION: Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched from Sicily and Egypt all the way to India. This included Israel. About a hundred and fifty years after Alexander died, the Greeks still governed the area. By that time they started enforcing Greek culture and religion on all those whom they ruled. In Israel this meant, for example, that it was a crime to circumcise a child. Copies of the Scriptures were burned. Jews could not follow their dietary laws or celebrate their usual feasts. The worship of Greek gods and goddesses was required. Some of the Jews gave in to the Greeks, others fought hard to hold on to their traditional faith in Yahweh. Our first reading gives us just a hint of how terrible this time was for the Jews. This reading is chosen because it reflects their faith in the resurrection of those who are faithful to Yahweh, and it prepares us for the gospel which also deals with the topic of resurrection.
HOMILY: St. Paul said clearly, “If Christ is not risen, vain is our preaching and vain is your faith.” Paul’s words remind us how essential to our faith is the resurrection. It is the death and resurrection of Christ we celebrate each week at the Eucharist. We recall this mystery in the spring at Easter time because that’s when Jesus died and rose. At this time of the year we reflect on death and resurrection because the year is coming to an end. The Church reminds us our own lives will also come to an end some day. We have been called to share in Christ’s risen life at the end of time. Most of us do not like to think about this life coming to an end, but if we don’t think about it, we will not be very well prepared for it. It is important that we be prepared, because it’s only by being prepared through our faithfulness to Christ that we will enjoy the wonderful things that are ahead for us. Jesus said: “I came that they may have life and have it more abundantly.” That more abundant life will be with him forever in risen glory.
Our first reading describes the heroic faith of many Jews during the difficult period when the Greeks were attempting to impose paganism on the Jewish people. That was about a century and a half before the birth of Christ. The faith that these faithful Jews showed was amazing, considering that the Jews had not had a long tradition of belief in the resurrection. That was a concept that only developed a few hundred years before Christ. We see from the gospel that not even all of the religious leaders of Jesus’ day believed in the resurrection. The Sadducees were of the priestly class. We hear them in today’s gospel asking Jesus a ridiculous question, not because they were interested in the answer, but because they wanted to embarrass him with a dilemma they thought he wouldn’t be able to answer. Jesus answered them by saying their idea of the next life was incorrect. The law that Moses wrote about a man taking his brother’s wife if his brother were to die was meant to preserve a deceased man’s name and memory through offspring, to protect inheritance, and to secure the safety of the widow. There would be no need for all of that in the next life.
Jesus did not tell us much of what it will be like in the next life, because it will be so much different from anything we now know. It will not be a continuation of our present life. We will have our bodies back, not with all our aches and pains and imperfections, but in some glorified form. After our spirit enters into the glory of God's kingdom, we hope, then at the time of the resurrection, we will receive a body to match - a body that will radiate also God's glory. It is beyond our understanding now what this might be like. C.S. Lewis tried to describe it this way. He said a person who has experienced bodily resurrection “would have gone through as big a change as a [stone] statue...[being] changed from being a carved stone to being a real man."
The Lord reminds us today that the work of creation is not finished. Our spirits and the glorified body that we will have will be infused with the strength and beauty and glory and immortality of God. But we need to cooperate with this plan that God has for us. This is why Christ came to us, to show us the way. This is one of the reasons why we gather for the Eucharist each week – to remember what Jesus taught us and to remember what he did for us and why.
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