In today’s
Gospel the Sadducees are trying to trap Jesus using a slightly exaggerated and
absurd case study. They have no faith in the resurrection and therefore do not
grasp that in a place of peace, justice and freedom, people cannot
be ‘owned’ or ‘given’. We should not be too preoccupied with questions like
theirs: ‘Whose wife will she be?’ ‘Will I look old?’ ‘Will I have a body?’ Questions
like these ignore the radical freshness of the Kingdom of God.
We are all ‘children of this world’ who are called to be
‘children of the resurrection’. You might recall today someone who has passed
away, but who is very much alive because of their influence on people, their
generosity and kindness and the difference they made to those around them. They
are ‘children of the resurrection’. They
make huge sacrifices for the liberation of people around them, for those who need
healing or are oppressed in any way. They ‘cannot
die’ even though they, like Jesus, can be condemned by society.
“You
were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you
have always been.” (Aberjhani)
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