Sunday, November 10, 2013. 

Today's Liturgical Reading by Daily Flash, Goa. 

32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time. 

2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14; Psalm 16[17]:1, 5-6, 8, 15; 2 Thessalonians 2:16 - 3:5; Gospel : Luke 20:27-38. [Please share today's Gospel with family,friends/neighbors.]

Focus: "Now He is God not of the dead, but of the living" (Luke 20:38)

Good Friday comes around only once a year but don't we regularly put on 'Good Friday faces?' We are children of the Resurrection and our God is alive, not dead (Focus). Yet many of us come to church with heavy hearts and gloomy spirits. Like the Sadducees (today's Gospel) we are preoccupied with concerns like who after death might be the real husband of a woman who married seven times. The Sadducees had closed their minds to the possibility of an afterlife (Luke 20:27). Similarly, we miss the point that the Resurrection is about Jesus emerging victorious against sin and death.

God is not confined by space and time or by our earthly limitations. He has a perfect plan. We can wilfully be like the Sadducees and close our minds to His revelation or we can be eager to learn from Him. If He moves our lives in a direction we don't fully understand, we must listen humbly and follow Him. He will never lead us astray. He wants us to be ready to step out of our comfort zones when the situations call for it. 

For the Sadducees this meant accepting the truth that God can raise dead. For us it might mean accepting a new member in the family or community or a new priest in our parish. 

Fruit: In life and in death the only one who never fails is God.