25 November, Saturday, week 33: assisting & rejoicing in God’s salvation of our enemies

<p>You are listening to the homily from the Eucharistic Celebration at Duc In Altum, Magdala, given by Fr. Eamon Kelly L.C. </p><p>📖 Find today's readings here: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111425.cfm <p>▶ Follow the daily live stream Eucharistic Celebration, Monday to Saturday at 6:30 P.M. (Holy Land Time) and Sunday at 8:15 A.M. (Holy Land Time): https://www.youtube.com/@magdalaenglish </p><p>You can join Fr. Kelly in his morning Stroll & Chat every morning from Magdala: https://linktr.ee/ekellylc </p><p>Lk 20:27-40</p>Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,"Teacher, Moses wrote for us,If someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child,his brother must take the wifeand raise up descendants for his brother.Now there were seven brothers;the first married a woman but died childless.Then the second and the third married her,and likewise all the seven died childless.Finally the woman also died.Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?For all seven had been married to her."Jesus said to them,"The children of this age marry and remarry;but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming ageand to the resurrection of the deadneither marry nor are given in marriage.They can no longer die,for they are like angels;and they are the children of Godbecause they are the ones who will rise.That the dead will riseeven Moses made known in the passage about the bush,when he called 'Lord'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;and he is not God of the dead, but of the living,for to him all are alive."Some of the scribes said in reply,"Teacher, you have answered well."And they no longer dared to ask him anything.