![]() ![]() If only they knew him better in Scripture. They forget that Christ calls them to build up, not to tear down. You don’t know what I’m about―my message of mercy, my call to repentance, my invitation to seek out the lost sheep.” So many of Christ’s supposed followers spend their time criticizing the Church, the hierarchy, the parish and the school. Our Lord, in effect, tells the Sadducees: “Because you don’t know Scripture, you don’t know me. Reading the Scriptures: The study of Scripture is, as it were, the “soul of sacred theology,” says Vatican II (see Dei Verbum, 24).Does our life radiate joy? If not, why not? We Christians are called to be witnesses to hope and joy. “Evil does not have the last word in the world,” said Pope Benedict XVI on December 22, 2005. We might ask: What’s the use? Evil seems to be winning on all sides. A rash of bad news can leave us on the verge of despair. But we can live as if we don’t believe in the power of God. It’s not that we deny the resurrection of the dead. If We Only Understood the Power of God: We can be like the Sadducees.Petition: Lord, let me imitate you better in my dealings with my loved ones. Your great love, though, assures me that your grace can keep me on the path to holiness. As one who has frequently fallen into sin, I am aware of my weakness. Introductory Prayer: Lord, I come before you humbly. 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. 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. So the second brother married her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise. The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants. 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. Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
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