“When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven.” Mk 12:18-27
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection,
came to Jesus 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 brother 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.” Mk 12:18-27
Today, Jesus is teaching us something about the connection of our body and souls and what will happen when our bodies rise from the dead. He is being tested by the Sadducees who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. Basically, Jesus says that whatever marital relations a person has is transcended by the creative power of God.
Bishop Barron states, “Heaven is a place where our bodiliness will be so rich and so intense that we will be able to relate to all those around us in the most intimate and powerful way possible. And there we will be fully alive, for as Jesus explained from the Torah, God is not God of the dead but of the living.“
Jesus came to marry the human and divine. Due to the resurrection of His body, we now can receive the same eternal state of our body. In eternal life, we will have a glorified body. The physical or natural world will be the same, it’s nature. It calls to mind what St. Augustine said, “why do we want to cling to the things of this world, when everything is going to be better in the next?”
Today’s challenge: Continue to bring yourself to the avenues of grace God has given to us through His Son so that you too will be able to enjoy being fully alive in heaven with the Holy Trinity and all of the angels and saints!
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YOLO
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