SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2019 - THIRTYSECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

GOSPEL - LK 20:27-38 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 out '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." The Catechism of the Catholic Church 993    The Pharisees and many of the Lord’s contemporaries hoped for the resurrection. Jesus teaches it firmly. To the Sadducees who deny it he answers, “Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?” Faith in the resurrection rests on faith in God who “is not God of the dead, but of the living.” 996     From the beginning, Christian faith in the resurrection has met with incomprehension and opposition. “On no point does the Christian faith encounter more opposition than on the resurrection of the body.” It is very commonly accepted that the life of the human person continues in a spiritual fashion after death. But how can we believe that this body, so clearly mortal, could rise to everlasting life? 999   How? Christ is raised with his own body: “See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself”; but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, “all of them will rise again with their own bodies which they now bear,” but Christ “will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body,” into a “spiritual body”: 1000    This “how” exceeds our imagination and understanding; it is accessible only to faith. Yet our participation in the Eucharist already gives us a foretaste of Christ’s transfiguration of our bodies: From “Great Crusade of Salvation” Testimony of Catalina Rivas (CS-24:4) 4) All of you must delve more deeply into My Passion. You do not like to. Do you? Bad, very bad; you cannot have redemption without the cross. You like the image of the Risen Christ, but from where did My Resurrection come? Every man must die to the world in order to be raised and only by dying to the world can he have redemption... From “Great Crusade of Mercy” Testimony of Catalina Rivas (Cm-51:5,7) 5) There are so many of your resurrections that are superior to that of Lazarus and I make them reality in the deepest silence. Because of the people who were present, I shouted to Him to come out from the tomb where he had been lying for four days. My voice reaches you in the same way as it did Lazarus in order to separate you from sin and your daily miseries. Oh, yes! It is not easy to make you rise because I do not find you well-enough prepared and you do not want to hear My voice! 7) Yes, I am the Resurrection of bodies but also of souls. He, who believes in Me will live with Me forever, because Faith in Me is the beginning of Love and Love is My life and your life.