Saturday of the Thirty-third Week in
Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 502
Lectionary: 502
As King Antiochus was traversing the inland provinces,
he heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais,
famous for its wealth in silver and gold,
and that its temple was very rich,
containing gold helmets, breastplates, and weapons
left there by Alexander, son of Philip,
king of Macedon, the first king of the Greeks.
He went therefore and tried to capture and pillage the city.
But he could not do so,
because his plan became known to the people of the city
who rose up in battle against him.
So he retreated and in great dismay withdrew from there
to return to Babylon.
While he was in Persia, a messenger brought him news
that the armies sent into the land of Judah had been put to flight;
that Lysias had gone at first with a strong army
and been driven back by the children of Israel;
that they had grown strong
by reason of the arms, men, and abundant possessions
taken from the armies they had destroyed;
that they had pulled down the Abomination
which he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem;
and that they had surrounded with high walls
both the sanctuary, as it had been before,
and his city of Beth-zur.
When the king heard this news,
he was struck with fear and very much shaken.
Sick with grief because his designs had failed, he took to his bed.
There he remained many days, overwhelmed with sorrow,
for he knew he was going to die.
So he called in all his Friends and said to them:
"Sleep has departed from my eyes,
for my heart is sinking with anxiety.
I said to myself: 'Into what tribulation have I come,
and in what floods of sorrow am I now!
Yet I was kindly and beloved in my rule.'
But I now recall the evils I did in Jerusalem,
when I carried away all the vessels of gold and silver
that were in it, and for no cause
gave orders that the inhabitants of Judah be destroyed.
I know that this is why these evils have overtaken me;
and now I am dying, in bitter grief, in a foreign land."
he heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais,
famous for its wealth in silver and gold,
and that its temple was very rich,
containing gold helmets, breastplates, and weapons
left there by Alexander, son of Philip,
king of Macedon, the first king of the Greeks.
He went therefore and tried to capture and pillage the city.
But he could not do so,
because his plan became known to the people of the city
who rose up in battle against him.
So he retreated and in great dismay withdrew from there
to return to Babylon.
While he was in Persia, a messenger brought him news
that the armies sent into the land of Judah had been put to flight;
that Lysias had gone at first with a strong army
and been driven back by the children of Israel;
that they had grown strong
by reason of the arms, men, and abundant possessions
taken from the armies they had destroyed;
that they had pulled down the Abomination
which he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem;
and that they had surrounded with high walls
both the sanctuary, as it had been before,
and his city of Beth-zur.
When the king heard this news,
he was struck with fear and very much shaken.
Sick with grief because his designs had failed, he took to his bed.
There he remained many days, overwhelmed with sorrow,
for he knew he was going to die.
So he called in all his Friends and said to them:
"Sleep has departed from my eyes,
for my heart is sinking with anxiety.
I said to myself: 'Into what tribulation have I come,
and in what floods of sorrow am I now!
Yet I was kindly and beloved in my rule.'
But I now recall the evils I did in Jerusalem,
when I carried away all the vessels of gold and silver
that were in it, and for no cause
gave orders that the inhabitants of Judah be destroyed.
I know that this is why these evils have overtaken me;
and now I am dying, in bitter grief, in a foreign land."
Responsorial
PsalmPS 9:2-3, 4 AND 6, 16 AND
19
R. (see 16a) I
will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord.
I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart;
I will declare all your wondrous deeds.
I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, Most High.
R. I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord.
Because my enemies are turned back,
overthrown and destroyed before you.
You rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
their name you blotted out forever and ever.
R. I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord.
The nations are sunk in the pit they have made;
in the snare they set, their foot is caught.
For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
nor shall the hope of the afflicted forever perish.
R. I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord.
I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart;
I will declare all your wondrous deeds.
I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, Most High.
R. I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord.
Because my enemies are turned back,
overthrown and destroyed before you.
You rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
their name you blotted out forever and ever.
R. I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord.
The nations are sunk in the pit they have made;
in the snare they set, their foot is caught.
For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
nor shall the hope of the afflicted forever perish.
R. I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord.
AlleluiaSEE 2 TM 1:10
R. Alleluia,
alleluia.
Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death
and brought life to light through the Gospel.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death
and brought life to light through the Gospel.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
GospelLK 20:27-40
Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us,
If someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child,
his brother must take the wife
and raise up descendants for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers;
the first married a woman but died childless.
Then the second and the third married her,
and likewise all the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died.
Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?
For all seven had been married to her."
Jesus said to them,
"The children of this age marry and remarry;
but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age
and to the resurrection of the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die,
for they are like angels;
and they are the children of God
because they are the ones who will rise.
That the dead will rise
even Moses made known in the passage about the bush,
when he called 'Lord'
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
and he is not God of the dead, but of the living,
for to him all are alive."
Some of the scribes said in reply,
"Teacher, you have answered well."
And they no longer dared to ask him anything.
came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us,
If someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child,
his brother must take the wife
and raise up descendants for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers;
the first married a woman but died childless.
Then the second and the third married her,
and likewise all the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died.
Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?
For all seven had been married to her."
Jesus said to them,
"The children of this age marry and remarry;
but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age
and to the resurrection of the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die,
for they are like angels;
and they are the children of God
because they are the ones who will rise.
That the dead will rise
even Moses made known in the passage about the bush,
when he called 'Lord'
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
and he is not God of the dead, but of the living,
for to him all are alive."
Some of the scribes said in reply,
"Teacher, you have answered well."
And they no longer dared to ask him anything.
For the readings of the Optional Memorial of Saint Clement I, please
go here.
For the readings of the Optional Memorial of Saint Columban, please
go here.
Meditation:
"All
live to him"
Is
your life earth-bound or heaven-bound? The Sadducees had one big problem - they
could not conceive of heaven beyond what they could see with their naked eyes!
Aren't we often like them? We don't recognize spiritual realities because we
try to make heaven into an earthly image. The Sadducees came to Jesus with a
test question to make the resurrection look ridiculous. The Sadducees, unlike
the Pharisees, did not believe in immortality, nor in angels or evil spirits.
Their religion was literally grounded in an earthly image of heaven.
The
Scriptures give witness - we will rise again to immortal life
Jesus retorts by dealing with the fact of the resurrection. The scriptures give proof of it. In Exodus 3:6, when God manifests his presence to Moses in the burning bush, the Lord tells him that he is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He shows that the patriarchs who died hundreds of years previously were still alive in God. Jesus defeats their arguments by showing that God is a living God of a living people. God was the friend of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when they lived. That friendship could not cease with death. As Psalm 73:23-24 states: "I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory."
Jesus retorts by dealing with the fact of the resurrection. The scriptures give proof of it. In Exodus 3:6, when God manifests his presence to Moses in the burning bush, the Lord tells him that he is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He shows that the patriarchs who died hundreds of years previously were still alive in God. Jesus defeats their arguments by showing that God is a living God of a living people. God was the friend of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when they lived. That friendship could not cease with death. As Psalm 73:23-24 states: "I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory."
The
ultimate proof of the resurrection is the Lord Jesus and his victory over death
when he rose from the tomb. Before Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he
exclaimed: "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes
in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me
shall never die. Do you believe this?" (John 11:25). Jesus
asks us the same question. Do you believe in the resurrection and in the
promise of eternal life with God?
Jesus
came to restore Paradise and everlasting life for us
The Holy Spirit reveals to us the eternal truths of God's unending love and the life he desires to share with us for all eternity. Paul the Apostle, quoting from the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 64:4; 65:17) states: "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him," God has revealed to us through the Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). The promise of paradise - heavenly bliss and unending life with an all-loving God - is beyond human reckoning. We have only begun to taste the first-fruits! Do you live now in the joy and hope of the life of the age to come?
The Holy Spirit reveals to us the eternal truths of God's unending love and the life he desires to share with us for all eternity. Paul the Apostle, quoting from the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 64:4; 65:17) states: "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him," God has revealed to us through the Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). The promise of paradise - heavenly bliss and unending life with an all-loving God - is beyond human reckoning. We have only begun to taste the first-fruits! Do you live now in the joy and hope of the life of the age to come?
"May
the Lord Jesus put his hands on our eyes also, for then we too shall begin to
look not at what is seen but at what is not seen. May he open the eyes that are
concerned not with the present but with what is yet to come, may he unseal the
heart's vision, that we may gaze on God in the Spirit, through the same Lord,
Jesus Christ, whose glory and power will endure throughout the unending
succession of ages." (Prayer of Origen, 185-254 AD)
Daily
Quote from the early church fathers: Jesus cites Moses to affirm the
resurrection, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"The
Savior also demonstrated the great ignorance of the Sadducees by bringing
forward their own leader Moses, who was clearly acquainted with the
resurrection of the dead. He set God before us saying in the bush, 'I am the
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob' (Exodus 3:6). Of
whom is he God, if, according to their argument, these have ceased to live? He
is the God of the living. They certainly will rise when his almighty right hand
brings them and all that are on the earth there. For people not to believe that
this will happen is worthy perhaps of the ignorance of the Sadducees, but it is
altogether unworthy of those who love Christ. We believe in him who says, 'I am
the resurrection and the life' (John 11:25). He will raise the dead suddenly,
in the twinkling of an eye, and at the last trumpet. It shall sound, the dead
in Christ shall rise incorruptible, and we shall be changed (1 Corinthians
15:52). For Christ our common Savior will transfer us into incorruption, glory
and to an incorruptible life." (excerpt from COMMENTARY ON
LUKE, HOMILY 136)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, LUKE 20:27-40
(1 Maccabees 6:1-13; Psalm 9)
(1 Maccabees 6:1-13; Psalm 9)
KEY VERSE: "They are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise" (v. 36).
TO KNOW: A group of Sadducees tried to entrap Jesus regarding the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Since the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection, they proposed an absurd situation in which seven brothers married the same woman in succession leaving her childless at their deaths. Then they sarcastically asked Jesus whose wife she would be in the supposed resurrection. Jesus silenced his opponents by exposing their ignorance of the scriptures. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had all died but they were eternally alive in God (Ex 3:6), as were all who had faith. The Sadducees must forfeit their position as teachers since Jesus was the authentic interpreter of God's word. The Sadducee’s sect is believed to have become extinct sometime after the destruction of Herod's temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE. Our relationship with Christ should transcend all earthly ones.
TO LOVE: Can I explain my belief in the resurrection to those who question it?
TO SERVE: Lord Jesus, I pray that I and my loved ones will share eternal life with you one day.
Optional
Memorial of Saint Clement I, pope and martyr
Clement of Rome was the third successor of St. Peter, reigning as pope during the last decade of the first century. He’s known as one of the Church’s five “Apostolic Fathers,” those who provided a direct link between the Apostles and later generations of Church Fathers. Clement’s First Epistle to the Corinthians was preserved and widely read in the early Church. This letter concerns a split that alienated a large number of the laity from the clergy. Deploring the division in the Corinthian community, Clement urged charity to heal the rift: “Charity unites us to God. It knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.” Clement was imprisoned under the Emperor Trajan, and was executed by being tied to an anchor and thrown into the sea. He is regarded as a patron saint of mariners. The Basilica of St. Clement in Rome is one of the earliest parish churches in the city, and was probably built on the site of Clement's home. His name occurs in the Canon of the Mass.
Optional Memorial of Saint Columban, abbot
Born in the province of Leinster, Ireland, in 563, St. Columban was a missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms. Columban taught a Celtic monastic rule and Celtic penitential practices for those repenting of sins. This rite emphasized private confession to a priest, followed by penances given by the priest in reparation for the sins. Soon his followers were also building monasteries in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. He was forced into exile by the Frankish King. He went to Italy and founded there the monastery at Bobbio, which was a center of culture and learning as well as spirituality.
Optional
Memorial of Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro, priest and martyr
Miguel Pro was born to privilege, but he had great affinity for the poor and working classes. As a Jesuit novice, he was exiled during the Mexican revolution. Ordained in Belgium in 1925 at age 36, he returned to Mexico in 1926, a time of persecution when churches were closed and priests were in hiding. Fr. Miguel used disguises to conduct an underground ministry, bringing the comfort of charity and the sacraments to the faithful. He was falsely accused in 1927 of a bombing attempt. He was betrayed to the police, and without trial, he was sentenced to death. As he was about to be shot, he forgave his executioners, refused a blindfold, and died with his arms extended like a cross and shouting "Love live Christ the King!" The government prohibited a public funeral, but the faithful lined the streets when his body passed.
Saturday 23 November 2019
1 Maccabees 6:1-13. Psalm 9A:2-4, 6, 16, 19. Luke 20:27-40.
I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord – Psalm 9A:2-4, 6, 16,
19
‘He is God, not of the dead, but of the living’
The resurrection of the dead is difficult for us to grasp.
Theologian Gerhard Lohfink’s Is This All There Is? tackles
this topic head on with curiosity, awe, faith and clear thinking.
We do our best in our lives, walking in faith and trust day by
day. We respond to the invitations and calls we experience God giving us,
acting with generosity when we can, and asking for healing and peace when we
need. The Lord’s own resurrection is the promise that we too will rise with him
on the last day. We know that our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. We
believe that we will experience our bodies in the eternal life to come.
We will rise together with Christ, his mother, and all the
saints. We will enter eternity as a gift from God, as a ‘participation in the
fullness of divine life’ (Lohfink).
Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro
Saint of the Day for November 23
(January 13, 1891 – November 23, 1927)
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| The blessed Miguel Agustin Pro, Mexican Jesuit | photo by Grentidez |
Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro’s Story
“¡Viva Cristo Rey!”—Long live Christ the King!—were
the last words Pro uttered before he was executed for being a Catholic priest
and serving his flock.
Born into a prosperous, devout family in Guadalupe de Zacatecas,
Mexico, Miguel entered the Jesuits in 1911, but three years later fled to
Granada, Spain, because of religious persecution in Mexico. He was ordained in
Belgium in 1925.
Father Pro immediately returned to Mexico, where he served a
Church forced to go “underground.” He celebrated the Eucharist clandestinely
and ministered the other sacraments to small groups of Catholics.
He and his brother Roberto were arrested on trumped-up charges
of attempting to assassinate Mexico’s president. Roberto was spared, but Miguel
was sentenced to face a firing squad on November 23, 1927. His funeral became a
public demonstration of faith. Miguel Pro was beatified in 1988.
Reflection
When Fr. Miguel Pro was executed in 1927, no one could have
predicted that 52 years later the bishop of Rome would visit Mexico, be
welcomed by its president, and celebrate open-air Masses before thousands of
people. Pope John Paul II made additional trips to Mexico in 1990, 1993, 1999,
and 2002. Those who outlawed the Catholic Church in Mexico did not count on the
deeply rooted faith of its people, and the willingness of many of them, like
Miguel Pro, to die as martyrs.
Lectio Divina: Luke 20:27-40
Lectio Divina
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Ordinary Time
1) Opening prayer
Father of all that is good,
keep us faithful in serving you,
for to serve you is our lasting joy.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
keep us faithful in serving you,
for to serve you is our lasting joy.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
2) Gospel reading - Luke 20:27-40
Some Sadducees who argue that there is no resurrection,
approached Jesus and put this question to him, “Master, Moses wrote 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 showed 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.”
Some scribes then spoke up. They said, “Well put, Master.” They did not dare to ask Him any more questions.
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 showed 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.”
Some scribes then spoke up. They said, “Well put, Master.” They did not dare to ask Him any more questions.
3) Reflection
• The Gospel today gives us the discussion of the Sadducees with
Jesus on faith in the resurrection.
• Luke 20, 27: The ideology of the Sadducees. The Gospel today begins with the following affirmation: “The Sadducees affirm that there is no resurrection”. The Sadducees were an elite type of aristocrat. They were conservative, insisting on a literal interpretation of the Law, and were invested in Roman rule and order. They did not accept faith in the resurrection. At that time, this faith was beginning to be valued by both the Pharisees and by ordinary people. This motivated people to resist the dominion of the Romans and of the priests, elders, and the Sadducees for whom the Messianic Kingdom was already present in the status quo. The Saducees were typically well off and content with the way things were at the time. They wanted religion to remain immutable like God himself. To ridicule faith in the resurrection, they created fictitious cases in which faith in the resurrection seemed absurd.
• Luke 20, 28-33: The fictitious case of the woman who married seven times. According to the law of the time, if the husband died without leaving any children, his brother had to marry the widow of the deceased man. This was done in case someone died without any descendants. In such cases, the dead man’s property would go to another family (Dt 25, 5-6). The Sadducees invented the story of a woman who buried seven husbands, brothers among themselves, and then she herself also died without children. And they asked Jesus: “This woman then, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be? Because the seven of them had her as wife”. This was invented in order to show that faith in the resurrection creates absurd situations, and exemplifies the literal interpretation the Saducees gave to the Law..
• Luke 20, 34-38: The response of Jesus which leaves no doubts. The response of Jesus displays the irritation of one who cannot bear pretense or deceit. Jesus cannot bear hypocrisy on the part of the elite which manipulates and ridicules faith in God to legitimize and defend its own interests. The response contains two parts. (a) you understand nothing of the resurrection: “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” (vv. 34-36). Jesus explains that the condition of persons after death will be totally different from the current condition. After death, there will be no marriages and all will be like angels in heaven. (b) The Sadducees imagined life in Heaven the same as life on earth. You understand nothing about God: “That the dead will rise, Moses has also showed this in regard to the bush, when he calls the Lord: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not God of the dead, but of the living, because all live in him”. The disciples are attentive and learn! Those who are on the side of the Sadducees find themselves on the opposite side of God.
• Luke 20, 39-40: The reaction of others before the response of Jesus. “Then some of the scribes said: “Master you have spoken well. And they no longer dared to ask Him any more questions”. It is possible that some of these scribes were Pharisees, because the Pharisees believed in the resurrection (cf. Ac 23, 6). Either way, Jesus reduced his opponents to silence.
• Luke 20, 27: The ideology of the Sadducees. The Gospel today begins with the following affirmation: “The Sadducees affirm that there is no resurrection”. The Sadducees were an elite type of aristocrat. They were conservative, insisting on a literal interpretation of the Law, and were invested in Roman rule and order. They did not accept faith in the resurrection. At that time, this faith was beginning to be valued by both the Pharisees and by ordinary people. This motivated people to resist the dominion of the Romans and of the priests, elders, and the Sadducees for whom the Messianic Kingdom was already present in the status quo. The Saducees were typically well off and content with the way things were at the time. They wanted religion to remain immutable like God himself. To ridicule faith in the resurrection, they created fictitious cases in which faith in the resurrection seemed absurd.
• Luke 20, 28-33: The fictitious case of the woman who married seven times. According to the law of the time, if the husband died without leaving any children, his brother had to marry the widow of the deceased man. This was done in case someone died without any descendants. In such cases, the dead man’s property would go to another family (Dt 25, 5-6). The Sadducees invented the story of a woman who buried seven husbands, brothers among themselves, and then she herself also died without children. And they asked Jesus: “This woman then, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be? Because the seven of them had her as wife”. This was invented in order to show that faith in the resurrection creates absurd situations, and exemplifies the literal interpretation the Saducees gave to the Law..
• Luke 20, 34-38: The response of Jesus which leaves no doubts. The response of Jesus displays the irritation of one who cannot bear pretense or deceit. Jesus cannot bear hypocrisy on the part of the elite which manipulates and ridicules faith in God to legitimize and defend its own interests. The response contains two parts. (a) you understand nothing of the resurrection: “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” (vv. 34-36). Jesus explains that the condition of persons after death will be totally different from the current condition. After death, there will be no marriages and all will be like angels in heaven. (b) The Sadducees imagined life in Heaven the same as life on earth. You understand nothing about God: “That the dead will rise, Moses has also showed this in regard to the bush, when he calls the Lord: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not God of the dead, but of the living, because all live in him”. The disciples are attentive and learn! Those who are on the side of the Sadducees find themselves on the opposite side of God.
• Luke 20, 39-40: The reaction of others before the response of Jesus. “Then some of the scribes said: “Master you have spoken well. And they no longer dared to ask Him any more questions”. It is possible that some of these scribes were Pharisees, because the Pharisees believed in the resurrection (cf. Ac 23, 6). Either way, Jesus reduced his opponents to silence.
4) Personal questions
• Today, how do the groups which have power imitate the
Sadducees and prepare traps in order to prevent changes in the world and in the
Church?
• Do you believe in the resurrection? When you say that you believe in the resurrection, do you think about something of the past, of the present or of the future? Have you ever had an experience of resurrection in your life?
• Do you believe in the resurrection? When you say that you believe in the resurrection, do you think about something of the past, of the present or of the future? Have you ever had an experience of resurrection in your life?
5) Concluding prayer
This I believe: I shall see the goodness of Yahweh,
in the land of the living.
Put your hope in Yahweh, be strong, let your heart be bold,
put your hope in Yahweh. (Ps 27,13-14)
in the land of the living.
Put your hope in Yahweh, be strong, let your heart be bold,
put your hope in Yahweh. (Ps 27,13-14)
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