HOMILY FOR 9TH WEDNESDAY IN ORDINARY TIME — YEAR A
HOMILY FOR 9TH WEDNESDAY IN ORDINARY TIME — YEAR A
HOMILY THEME: HE IS NOT GOD OF THE DEAD, BUT OF THE LIVING
BY: Fr. Mike Lagrimas
2 Tim 1:1-3, 6-12; Psalm 122(123):1-2; Mark 12:18-27
Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and put this question to him, 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 and died, leaving no descendants. So the second married her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise. And the seven left no descendants. Last of all the woman also died. At the resurrection [when they arise] whose wife will she be? For all seven had been married to her.” Jesus said to them, “Are you not misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God? When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven. As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, [the] God of Isaac, and [the] God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.”
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Marriage is a permanent partnership between a man and a woman in life and in love. The bond of marriage cannot be broken except by death. So, married couples pledge to remain faithful to each other until death.
The question of some Sadducees in the Gospel today is meant not only to discredit the institution of marriage, but also to disprove the belief on the resurrection of the dead. However, Jesus was firm in pointing out two important truths.
First, God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. In Him, there is eternal life. Death will come for everybody, but there is resurrection after death because God is forever alive and His children are meant to live with Him forever.
Second, marriage is important for the survival of the human race in the world. Men and women have to get married in order to have children who will replace the parents when they die. But after death, when people leave this world and enter eternal life with God, there is no more death. So there is no more need to have children. Therefore, there is no more need for marriage.
Let us be grateful to God for the assurance of eternal life for us. Let us pray for all married couples that they may always remain faithful to God and to each other throughout their lives. May we all be gathered together again in God’s kingdom of eternal life and joy.
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