2nd book of Maccabees 7,1-2.9-14. It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law. One of the brothers, speaking for the others, said: "What do you expect to achieve by questioning us? We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors." At the point of death he said: "You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever. It is for his laws that we are dying." After him the third suffered their cruel sport. He put out his tongue at once when told to do so, and bravely held out his hands, as he spoke these noble words: "It was from Heaven that I received these; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him I hope to receive them again." Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young man's courage, because he regarded his sufferings as nothing. After he had died, they tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way. When he was near death, he said, "It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the God-given hope of being restored to life by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life." Psalms 17(16),1.5-6.8.15. Hear, O LORD, a just suit; attend to my outcry; hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.
My steps have been steadfast in your paths, my feet have not faltered. I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my word.
Keep me as the apple of your eye, hide me in the shadow of your wings. I in justice shall behold your face; on waking I shall be content in your presence. Second Letter to the Thessalonians 2,16-17.3,1-5. Brothers and sisters: May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through his grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word. Finally, brothers, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may speed forward and be glorified, as it did among you, and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked people, for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. We are confident of you in the Lord that what we instruct you, you (both) are doing and will continue to do. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 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 '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."
WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER Jesus responds that life belongs to God, who loves us and cares very deeply about us, to the point of linking His name to ours: He is “the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now He is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him” (vv. 37-38). Life exists where there is [a] bond, communion, brotherhood; and it is a life stronger than death when it is built on true relationships and bonds of fidelity. (Angelus, 10 Nov 2019)
FAUSTI - The Christian faith has its beginning in the resurrection of Jesus. The joy that flows from it is the strength to follow him to the cross, so that we can share in the resurrection of the dead (Phil 3:11). This is the beginning and end of the dynamism of Christian life. For "If Christ is not risen, your faith is in vain and you are still in your sins" (1 Cor 15:17). The resurrection consists in "always being with the Lord", for whom we already live in the gift of His Spirit. Paul says: "For me to live is Christ" (Phil 1:21), because "it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. I live this life in the flesh in the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me". (Gal 2,20). "Witness to the resurrection" is the most beautiful definition of the apostle. The bodily resurrection met with little favor in the Hellenistic culture, which despised matter. For this reason both Luke and Paul feel the need to underline it (24,39 - 1 Cor 15). The Sadducees, unlike the Pharisees, do not believe in the resurrection of the dead. Their objection tends to ridicule it even as a simple perspective. Jesus answers first of all by saying that it is not absurd. is a new life, without the need for marriage and generation, because death will no longer dominate. There is a succession of seven brothers who die, with the intention of arousing life. In reality, "taking" does not generate life, but sterile death. Fertility comes from "giving". Possession and gift express selfishness and love respectively, and stand together like death and life. Only when we take the Son of the man who gives himself, will our death conceive life. His wood will heal the bitter water of our spring (Ex 15:25). The world is divided into two "eons" (centuries): the present one and the future one. The first is under the sign of taking and dying. Marriage and generation are only a helpless protest against death. The more alive they are generated, the more "mortals" grow. But they are also a sign of the definitive victory over death. living for God and rising again. The second, the future, is under the sign of gift and life: one cannot marry anymore, because one cannot die anymore. Marriage gives life to those who then die. The resurrection instead gives to those who have died a new life, now free from death and generation. Man can renounce marriage because he is a person, constituted as such by his relationship with God. For this reason, his singularity has full value. "I am like angels". Angels are called "children of God." They have the splendor and strength of This. In the next century we too will receive the fullness of divine sonship. It already exists now, but then it will appear in its glory (1 Jn 3:2). In the resurrection of the dead we will have a "spiritual body". image of the celestial man, the last Adam, spirit and giver of life . Our body "is sown corruptible and resurrects incorruptible, is sown ignoble and resurrects glorious, is sown weak and resurrects full of strength ...". The resurrection is our full birth to the condition of children. Root of our resurrection is the fact that God is the "God of". that is, it belongs to us as we belong to Him. Whoever lives for himself dies in selfishness. Whoever lives for the Lord, already now participates in the life that has won death.
ANGELUS 10 November 2019 Dear Brothers and Sisters, Good Morning! Today’s Gospel reading (Lk 20:27-38) offers us a wonderful teaching of Jesus on the resurrection of the dead. Jesus is asked by some Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection and therefore provoke Him with an insidious question: in resurrection, whose wife would a woman be if she had seven successive husbands, who were all brothers, who all died one after the other? Jesus does not fall into the trap and replies that in the hereafter the risen “neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection” (vv. 35-36). This is how Jesus responds.
With this response, first and foremost, Jesus invites His interlocutors — and us too — to consider that this earthly dimension in which we now live is not the only dimension, but that there is another, no longer subject to death, which will fully manifest that we are children of God. It is of great comfort and hope to listen to this simple and clear word of Jesus about life beyond death; we need it very much especially in our time, so rich in knowledge about the universe but so lacking in wisdom about eternal life.
Jesus’ clear certainty about resurrection is based entirely on the fidelity of God, Who is the God of life. In fact, behind the question of the Sadducees is hidden a more profound question: not only whose wife will be the widow of the seven husbands, but to whom will her life belong. This is a doubt that touches mankind of every age and also us: after this earthly pilgrimage, what will become of our life? Will it belong to nothing, to death?
Jesus responds that life belongs to God, who loves us and cares very deeply about us, to the point of linking His name to ours: He is “the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now He is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him” (vv. 37-38). Life exists where there is [a] bond, communion, brotherhood; and it is a life stronger than death when it is built on true relationships and bonds of fidelity. On the contrary, there is no life where one has the presumption of belonging only to oneself and of living as an island: death prevails in these attitudes. It is selfishness. If I live for myself, I am sowing death in my heart.
May the Virgin Mary help us to live every day from the perspective of what we affirm in the final part of the Creed: “ We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come”. Awaiting the hereafter.
I address a special thought to the dear people of South Sudan, whom I will visit this [next] year. With the memory, still vivid, of the spiritual retreat which took place in the Vatican last April for the Authorities of the country, I wish to renew my invitation to all those involved in the national political process, in a spirit of true brotherhood, to seek that which unites and to overcome that which divides. The South Sudanese people have suffered too much in recent years, and they look forward with great hope to a better future, especially the definitive end to conflicts and a lasting peace. I therefore urge those responsible to continue tirelessly in their commitment to an inclusive dialogue in the search for consensus for the good of the nation. I also express the hope that the international community will not neglect to accompany South Sudan on the path to national reconciliation. I invite you all to pray together for this country, for which I feel particular affection. [Hail Mary]
2nd book of Maccabees 7,1-2.9-14.
RispondiEliminaIt happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law.
One of the brothers, speaking for the others, said: "What do you expect to achieve by questioning us? We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors."
At the point of death he said: "You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever. It is for his laws that we are dying."
After him the third suffered their cruel sport. He put out his tongue at once when told to do so, and bravely held out his hands,
as he spoke these noble words: "It was from Heaven that I received these; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him I hope to receive them again."
Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young man's courage, because he regarded his sufferings as nothing.
After he had died, they tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way.
When he was near death, he said, "It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the God-given hope of being restored to life by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life."
Psalms 17(16),1.5-6.8.15.
Hear, O LORD, a just suit;
attend to my outcry;
hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.
My steps have been steadfast in your paths,
my feet have not faltered.
I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my word.
Keep me as the apple of your eye,
hide me in the shadow of your wings.
I in justice shall behold your face;
on waking I shall be content in your presence.
Second Letter to the Thessalonians 2,16-17.3,1-5.
Brothers and sisters: May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through his grace,
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word.
Finally, brothers, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may speed forward and be glorified, as it did among you,
and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked people, for not all have faith.
But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
We are confident of you in the Lord that what we instruct you, you (both) are doing and will continue to do.
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 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 '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."
WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
RispondiEliminaJesus responds that life belongs to God, who loves us and cares very deeply about us, to the point of linking His name to ours: He is “the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now He is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him” (vv. 37-38). Life exists where there is [a] bond, communion, brotherhood; and it is a life stronger than death when it is built on true relationships and bonds of fidelity. (Angelus, 10 Nov 2019)
FAUSTI - The Christian faith has its beginning in the resurrection of Jesus.
RispondiEliminaThe joy that flows from it is the strength to follow him to the cross, so that we can share in the resurrection of the dead (Phil 3:11). This is the beginning and end of the dynamism of Christian life.
For "If Christ is not risen, your faith is in vain and you are still in your sins" (1 Cor 15:17).
The resurrection consists in "always being with the Lord", for whom we already live in the gift of His Spirit.
Paul says: "For me to live is Christ" (Phil 1:21), because "it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. I live this life in the flesh in the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me". (Gal 2,20).
"Witness to the resurrection" is the most beautiful definition of the apostle.
The bodily resurrection met with little favor in the Hellenistic culture, which despised matter.
For this reason both Luke and Paul feel the need to underline it (24,39 - 1 Cor 15).
The Sadducees, unlike the Pharisees, do not believe in the resurrection of the dead. Their objection tends to ridicule it even as a simple perspective. Jesus answers first of all by saying that it is not absurd.
is a new life, without the need for marriage and generation, because death will no longer dominate. There is a succession of seven brothers who die, with the intention of arousing life. In reality, "taking" does not generate life, but sterile death. Fertility comes from "giving".
Possession and gift express selfishness and love respectively, and stand together like death and life.
Only when we take the Son of the man who gives himself, will our death conceive life.
His wood will heal the bitter water of our spring (Ex 15:25).
The world is divided into two "eons" (centuries): the present one and the future one.
The first is under the sign of taking and dying.
Marriage and generation are only a helpless protest against death. The more alive they are generated, the more "mortals" grow. But they are also a sign of the definitive victory over death. living for God and rising again.
The second, the future, is under the sign of gift and life: one cannot marry anymore, because one cannot die anymore. Marriage gives life to those who then die.
The resurrection instead gives to those who have died a new life, now free from death and generation.
Man can renounce marriage because he is a person, constituted as such by his relationship with God. For this reason, his singularity has full value. "I am like angels". Angels are called "children of God." They have the splendor and strength of This.
In the next century we too will receive the fullness of divine sonship. It already exists now, but then it will appear in its glory (1 Jn 3:2).
In the resurrection of the dead we will have a "spiritual body". image of the celestial man, the last Adam, spirit and giver of life . Our body "is sown corruptible and resurrects incorruptible, is sown ignoble and resurrects glorious, is sown weak and resurrects full of strength ...".
The resurrection is our full birth to the condition of children.
Root of our resurrection is the fact that God is the "God of". that is, it belongs to us as we belong to Him.
Whoever lives for himself dies in selfishness.
Whoever lives for the Lord, already now participates in the life that has won death.
POPE FRANCIS
RispondiEliminaANGELUS
10 November 2019
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Good Morning!
Today’s Gospel reading (Lk 20:27-38) offers us a wonderful teaching of Jesus on the resurrection of the dead. Jesus is asked by some Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection and therefore provoke Him with an insidious question: in resurrection, whose wife would a woman be if she had seven successive husbands, who were all brothers, who all died one after the other? Jesus does not fall into the trap and replies that in the hereafter the risen “neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection” (vv. 35-36). This is how Jesus responds.
With this response, first and foremost, Jesus invites His interlocutors — and us too — to consider that this earthly dimension in which we now live is not the only dimension, but that there is another, no longer subject to death, which will fully manifest that we are children of God. It is of great comfort and hope to listen to this simple and clear word of Jesus about life beyond death; we need it very much especially in our time, so rich in knowledge about the universe but so lacking in wisdom about eternal life.
Jesus’ clear certainty about resurrection is based entirely on the fidelity of God, Who is the God of life. In fact, behind the question of the Sadducees is hidden a more profound question: not only whose wife will be the widow of the seven husbands, but to whom will her life belong. This is a doubt that touches mankind of every age and also us: after this earthly pilgrimage, what will become of our life? Will it belong to nothing, to death?
Jesus responds that life belongs to God, who loves us and cares very deeply about us, to the point of linking His name to ours: He is “the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now He is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him” (vv. 37-38). Life exists where there is [a] bond, communion, brotherhood; and it is a life stronger than death when it is built on true relationships and bonds of fidelity. On the contrary, there is no life where one has the presumption of belonging only to oneself and of living as an island: death prevails in these attitudes. It is selfishness. If I live for myself, I am sowing death in my heart.
May the Virgin Mary help us to live every day from the perspective of what we affirm in the final part of the Creed: “ We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come”. Awaiting the hereafter.
I address a special thought to the dear people of South Sudan, whom I will visit this [next] year. With the memory, still vivid, of the spiritual retreat which took place in the Vatican last April for the Authorities of the country, I wish to renew my invitation to all those involved in the national political process, in a spirit of true brotherhood, to seek that which unites and to overcome that which divides. The South Sudanese people have suffered too much in recent years, and they look forward with great hope to a better future, especially the definitive end to conflicts and a lasting peace. I therefore urge those responsible to continue tirelessly in their commitment to an inclusive dialogue in the search for consensus for the good of the nation. I also express the hope that the international community will not neglect to accompany South Sudan on the path to national reconciliation. I invite you all to pray together for this country, for which I feel particular affection.
[Hail Mary]
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