Gospel: John
11:17-27
17 When
Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days. 18 As
Bethany is near Jerusalem, about two miles away, 19 many Jews had come to
Martha and Mary, after the death of their brother, to comfort them. 20 When
Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, while Mary remained
sitting in the house. 21 Martha said to Jesus, “If you had been here, my
brother would not have died. 22 But I know that whatever you ask from God, God
will give you.” 23 Jesus said, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha
replied, “I know that he will rise in the resurrection, at the last day.” 25
But Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection. Whoever believes in me, though
he die, shall live. 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you
believe this?” 27 Martha then answered, “Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that
you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world.”
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Reflection:
Anyone who
wants to die now? Surely nobody would want to die now for we all want to live
longer. However death is a certainty of life. Somewhere along our journey in
this world we will get sick and we die.
Today is
All Souls’ Day, we reserve this day to remember our departed love ones. Have
you already offered Holy Mass for the eternal repose of their souls and are
they always part of your prayers? We
always beseech Jesus to remember our departed love ones whenever we offer Holy
Mass and prayers for them.
Like our
love ones who’ve gone ahead of us we too will come to the point of death. But
we have nothing to fear about our mortality for it’s simply death of our mortal
body. Death can do nothing to us we are in fact forever immortal in spirit if
we have Jesus in our life. Our spirit will continue to live even if we die
because we have faith and belief in Jesus.
In our
gospel Jesus tells us, I am the resurrection. Whoever believes in me, though he
die, shall live. Whoever lives and
believes in me will never die (John 11:25-26). – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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