Wow Ordinary Time is speeding along! The last Sunday in November will be the 1st Sunday of Advent!
What do you do with your family to celebrate the Advent Season? With the children in the home we make our Advent candles with sheets of beeswax that we purchase from Holy Heroes. We also do some of the Advent activities that are on Holy Heroes such as the Jesse Tree. We put a tree with white lights in the dinning room for the Jesse Tree and decorate it with Jesse Tree ornaments, by Christmas it is full of Jesse Tree Ornaments. The nice thing about Holy Heroes is they have a verity of Advent activities.
As we head toward the Advent Season even the leaves on the trees change color and fall to the ground, so that in the Spring we can have new life! We see farmers harvesting the crops. The readings today reflect and speak about the reality of death and resurrection. We live our lives as Christians in the hope that when we die we will go to heaven and one day experience the Resurrection of our bodies. This is also in the first reading. All the reading can be found at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops website!
Gospel reading for today:
GospelLK 20:27-38
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 wife
and 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 age
and to the resurrection of the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die, for they are like angels;
and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.
That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush,
when he called out ‘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.”
The Gospel of the Lord! Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ!