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Friends,
today’s Gospel reports a conversation Jesus had with some of the
Sadducees who held there is no life after death. We could practically
hear their speech on the lips of secularists today. But Jesus is having
none of it. The dead shall indeed rise, he says. Otherwise, how could
Moses have spoken of God as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all of
whom were long dead by Moses’ time? But their risen existence, though
in continuity, even bodily continuity, with what has gone before, will
be transformed, transfigured, raised up.
Those
who hold to the resurrection of the body are those who are most
effective at working for justice and peace in this world. If you are a
complete materialist and secularist, you hold that everything and
everybody, in the end, just fades away. But if you believe in the
resurrection of the body, then everything in this world is destined for
redemption. Everything matters.
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