+ Our gospel passage today shows how Jesus deals with those who try to put trick questions to him to discredit his teaching. Here he quite easily turns the tables. He reminds all that marriage has to do with this world, and not the world to come. But he also tells us about that world to come when he teaches that for those who would one day be baptized there is a true family relationship that would endure through this life into the next. All who are baptized become adopted children of God, and therefore brothers and sisters of one another both in this life and the next. And so, we marry our "brother or sister in Christ" here below, and will spend eternity in heaven with them when the marriage ends at death but the family relationship lasts forever! God is the God of a living family of loving members!
In the first reading St. Paul tells Timothy to stir into flame the gift that God gave him at his ordination. For it is never easy bring the gospel message to anyone – and the Apostle and teacher, the Bishop and the priest need the special help of the Spirit of God to do it. The teaching today is that Jesus is the resurrection and the life, and that whoever believes in him (who is our Brother) will never die but live as a brother and sister forever!
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