We Are Children of the Living God

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MY daily reflection and prayer:
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time

Dear my friends,
Here is the Gospel for us today according to St. Luke 20: 27-40

Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.” Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.” Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” For they no longer dared to ask him another question.

This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.

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IN the Gospel today, Jesus Christ teaches us that God is not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive. With this word he wants to encourage us to be children of God, children of the resurrection. It means that once we are in heaven, things will be considerably different than they are here on earth.

Jesus Christ also reminds us that he and the Father are the God of the living. It happens in and through the life of Jesus Christ. He has suffered, died and rose on the third day that we might have a new life in him. It is a life in and with God, now and for all eternity.

In the Perpetual Adoation of the Eucharist while adoring Jesus Christ we participate in the life of God. He reveals his mercy to us,we participate in his life through our adoration.

Let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ, God has made us so we would pursue him, so we would listen to him, so we would understand him, in you. You are the face of God’s mercy. Through your death and resurrection and our baptism, you have made us children of God. Help us to be the children of God so that we have eternal life in heaven forever and ever. Amen.

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