Today’s Thoughts: In our Gospel today, we encounter Jesus having to deal with religious leadership once again as they try to catch by presenting what seems to be an unsolvable problem. Today leaders involved are the Sadducees, a conservative section of Jewish leadership centered around the Temple, who will disappear once the Temple is destroyed in 70 CE. This group of Jewish fundamentalists, have a philosophy that there is no life after death, so, they come to Jesus, not to talk about marriage, but to push their agenda as opposed to Jesus’ teachings about the life and kingdom to come. They invoke the writing of Moses to justify their presentation to Jesus.
In his answer, Jesus reminds them that during the encounter that God initiated with Moses at the “Burning Bush” Moses called out, “Lord”, Who is God of the three foundational persons in the history of Israel, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. The point of our reading today centers on life not death. The brothers and mother in our first reading today from the Second Book of Maccabees are focused on life. Not the life they are currently living, that is temporary. They are focused on the life to come for all eternity with God. Jesus is also focused on the life to come. He does not describe it in detail but in broad strokes and the main focus is life! We are on the journey and our faith needs to be ground in the God of the living! These final weeks of the liturgical year are always focused on what our journey of faith is all about. The mystery of eternity is in front of us. We can only try to describe it in human terms that always come up short and so we must believe. We must have faith and hope that rest in our God, who always has been and always will be the God of the Living! Have a blessed and holy Sunday everyone.
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