War is hell. Who can argue with these famous words of the Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman? Certainly no one who has seen the photos of soldiers blown apart on a battlefield, or even huddled terrified in foxholes or trenches.
On Nov. 11, our nation will be celebrating Remembrance Day. This is a solemn day in which we remember and pray for all the brave men and women who died in war. They sacrificed their lives in order to ensure that freedom triumphed over tyranny in our world. We are the grateful beneficiaries of their heroic efforts. In my own […]
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November 10, 2019
The Pope remarked that the Lord does not fall into the trap set by the Sadducees who ask him when a woman dies who has been married to 7 brothers, one after the another, whose wife will she be?
Pope Francis described how Jesus replies by saying, “the risen in the beyond take neither wife nor husband, for they can no longer die, because they are equal to the angels and, since they are children of the resurrection, they are children of God”.
With this answer, noted the Pope “Jesus first of all invites his interlocutors – and we too – to think that this earthly dimension in which we live now is not the only one, but there is another, no longer subject to death, in which it will be fully manifested that we are children of God.” This response commented Pope Francis gives “great consolation and hope to listen to this simple and clear word of Jesus about life beyond death; we need it so much especially in our time, so rich in knowledge about the universe but so poor in wisdom about eternal life.”
This clear certainty of Jesus about the Resurrection, said the Pontiff, “is based entirely on the fidelity of God, who is the God of life.”
Jesus answers that life belongs to God, underlined the Pope, “who loves us and cares so much about us, to the point of tying his name to ours: he is “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.”
“God is not of the dead, but of the living; for all live for him”, said Pope Francis. He added, that “there is no life where one has the pretension to belong only to oneself and to live as islands: in these attitudes death prevails.”
In fact, he stressed, “the resurrection is not only the fact of resurrecting after death, but it is a new kind of life that we can already experience now. Eternal life is our destiny, the horizon of definitive fullness of our history. And it is in this life that we are called to prepare through evangelical choices.”
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Advent, Gethsemane. Similar? Jesus’ message in both cases is that He is interested in our human poverty. Let’s look closer as we come to celebrate his birth. Presentation by Jim Good. Saturday, Nov. 16th, 12:30 -4:30. St. Dunstan’s Basilica lower level, Knights Room. Please use side entrance off Dorchester St. Take along a snack for break time.
The Requiem Mass for the War dead prays for men and women who, like all of us, stand in need of merciful forgiveness. We plead the sacrifice of Christ, offering His Body and Blood, for them, not as heroes but as sinners. On the other hand, the customary rituals of Cenotaph observance do have – surely, even now – a nationalism built into them, while Holy Mass subverts every nationalism. It was,
This article was published by the Australia Care Alliance on November 9, 2019.