Reflection for WEDNESDAY, 9th Week, Ordinary Time.

By

Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Assistant Parish Priest,Manjeshwar,Kasargod

Reflective reading of the Word of God 


 Mark 12:18-27 

The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob is the God of the living

Some Sadducees – who deny that there is a resurrection – came to him and they put this question to him, ‘Master, we have it from Moses in writing, if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and then died leaving no children. The second married the widow, and he too died leaving no children; with the third it was the same, and none of the seven left any children. Last of all the woman herself died. Now at the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be, since she had been married to all seven?’

  Jesus said to them, ‘Is not the reason why you go wrong, that you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, men and women do not marry; no, they are like the angels in heaven. Now about the dead rising again, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him and said: I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is God, not of the dead, but of the living. You are very much mistaken.’

 Reflection on the Readings 

Our faith tells us that while we have a life in this world, we also have an eternal life in heaven.

In fact, with faith and hope, we can see that our life in this world is a preparation for the eternal life of the next world.

So we can say that we have two lives – one in this world, and the other one in the next.

But, another way of looking at it is that we have two lives in this world.

And the second one begins when we realise that we have only one life in this world.

In the 1st reading, Tobit and Sarah had thoughts about ending their lives in this world.

They were in despair and distress, but they also prayed to the Lord for help.

And their prayer found favour before the Lord and Raphael was sent to bring remedy to them both.

In a way, it can be said that their second life on earth is about to begin.

In the gospel, Jesus gave a teaching about life on earth and life in heaven.

His most profound statement is that God is not God of the dead, but of the living.

When we put our faith and hope in God, then Jesus will lead us to live life to the full, and we will walk confidently from the life of this world to the life of the next.


       GOD BLESS YOU

Good morning. Have a nice day.