Zechariah 8:8
They
shall be my people, and I will be their God, with faithfulness and justice.
It is a grim reality. One day, we would meet our death. But, it is also a reality that we would be raise again. And what is
"rising"? In death, the
separation of the soul from the body, the human body decays and the soul goes
to meet God, while awaiting its reunion with its glorified body.
God, in His
almighty power, will definitely grant incorruptible life to our bodies by
reuniting them with our souls, through the power of Jesus' Resurrection. How?
Christ is raised with his own body but he did not return to an earthly
life. So, in him, "all of them will
rise again with their own bodies which they now bear," but Christ
"will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body," into a
"spiritual body". This
"how" exceeds our imagination and understanding; it is accessible
only to faith.
Our participation in the Eucharist already
gives us a foretaste of Christ's transfiguration of our bodies. To rise with Christ, we must
die with Christ: we must "be away from the body and at home with the
Lord”. In that "departure"
which is death the soul is separated from the body. It will be reunited with the body on the day
of resurrection of the dead.
This is the good news for us all: Jesus, the Son of God, freely suffered death
for us in complete and free submission to the will of God, his Father. By his death he has conquered death, and so
opened the possibility of salvation to all men.
To be a witness to Christ is to be a "witness to his Resurrection”.
Let us pray +
O Risen Lord, the way, the truth and the
life, make us faithful followers
of the spirit of your resurrection. Grant that we may be inwardly renewed; dying to ourselves in order that you may live in us. Bring your life and love to all and leading them to your Church. This we ask of you, Lord Jesus, living and reigning with the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God forever. Amen +
of the spirit of your resurrection. Grant that we may be inwardly renewed; dying to ourselves in order that you may live in us. Bring your life and love to all and leading them to your Church. This we ask of you, Lord Jesus, living and reigning with the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God forever. Amen +
…the people gather together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
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