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Sunday November 26th: Reign in us!
November 26, 2023
“Some Sadducees – those who argue that there is no resurrection – approached Jesus” …
Luke 20: 27-40
And what convoluted scenarios they concocted to test him! Poor Sadducees, we may say.
Sadly however, we who today have had the blessed privilege of knowing Christ, who himself is the Resurrection and the Life, may profess we believe but sometimes live as though we do not. Life after death is so shrouded in mystery that many grapple with beliefs that belie the promised eternal life.
St Paul announcing the kerygma (1 Cor 15) shows that the basic tenet of Christianity hinges on the Resurrection. If we subscribe to the notion that when we dead we done, if our choices and lifestyle are so focused on things of this world that we put our spirituality on the back burner, we fall into a trap that can ultimately rob us of eternal life.
Whenever I slip, my childhood memory of the reference in the catechism: God made me to know Him, love Him and serve Him in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next, always serves to jolt me back to reality.
