9TH WEDNESDAY HOMILY OF ORDINARY TIME — YEAR A
9TH WEDNESDAY HOMILY OF ORDINARY TIME — YEAR A
HOMILY THEME: GOD OF THE LIVING
BY: Bishop Gerald M Musa
2 Tim 1:1-3, 6-12; Psalm 122(123):1-2; Mark 12:18-27
In a market of rumours, everyone becomes a prophet. People speculate endlessly about what happens after death, but Jesus alone is the Resurrection and the Life. There is so much speculation and so many opinions about what happens after death. Some Sadducees narrated the story of a woman who married seven brothers in succession and who later died. They asked: “In the resurrection, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as a wife” (Mark 12:23).
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They believed physical death was the end of life. Jesus enlightened them, saying that in the next life, there is no marriage because the dead are like angels who do not need offspring. To show that life continues after death, Jesus cites Moses, who calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He adds, “He is not God of the dead, but of the living” (Mark 12:27). This means that those who had a relationship with God on earth will continue to have a relationship with him in the life hereafter.
Jesus declares: “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die” (John 11:25-26). Belief in the resurrection is core to the Christian faith, and that is why the Apostle makes it clear: “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:14). How strong is our faith in the resurrection?
MARK 12:18-27, WEDNESDAY 9TH WEEK
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