Saturday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Lk 20: 27-40
November 25, 2023 | Saturday
Then some Sadducees arrived. These people claim that there is no resurrection, and they asked Jesus this question, “Master, in the law Moses told us, ‘If anyone dies leaving a wife but no children, his brother must take the wife, and any child born to them will be regarded as the child of the deceased.’ Now, there were seven brothers: the first married,but died without children. The second married the woman, but also died childless. And then the third married her, and in this same way 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 a wife? For all seven had her as a wife.”
And Jesus replied, “Taking a husband or a 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 are sons and daughters of God, because they are born of the resurrection.
Yes, the dead will be raised, as Moses revealed at the burning bush,when he called the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. For God is God of the living, and not of the dead, for to him everyone is alive.”
Some teachers of the law then agreed with Jesus, “Master, you have spoken well.”They didn’t dare ask him anything else.
Today’s Reflection:
Biblical scholarship identifies two kinds of worlds: the present physical world and the new or the world to come that happens when God reigns as king. In the gospel scene today Jesus draws our attention to the resurrection of the dead. While the Sadducees’ main concern is about the things in this world, Jesus pointed out to them that marriage life in this world is no longer an important concern in the world to come because the latter is already an eternal marriage between Christ the bridegroom and the Church as his bride. In the life with God we enjoy the fullness of life and love. All of us belong to God as his own in heaven./ Vulnerasti, 2023
