If the Lord
is not risen, we are all dead both in this life and after death. St. Paul teaches
and corrects his beloved brothers and sisters in faith, who seemingly have erred
in their convictions. The philosophical teaching is concluded in a positive way:
Jesus is risen and we all will rise with Him.
The first reading
and the Gospel are a logical sequence that the Mother Church offers us after
the messages we received through the liturgy yesterday and the day before.
There was the theme of death on the cross and beneath it, but death cannot have
the last word in our life. There is God who acts. God will always have the last
word.
Jesus also
announces the same good news in the NT; the Kingdom of God will last forever. The
Evangelist Luke mentions in the Gospel that Jesus is being followed by his
disciples, but he gives a very short narrative of that in today’s Gospel. He gives
more details and attention to the women who follow Jesus. Why? Are they important?
The chronicle may be important but the message behind those names is far more
significative. These women lived in a state of sin or in touch with it. Mary
from Magdala is famous for her past. There are also other wealthy persons who
may have not lived in sin, but for they come from higher classes, may have been
in touch with the political and religious world that is not far from sin. Not necessarily
all were Jews. So, the message is that there is hope and space for all. All are
welcome in Jesus’ company, whatever their origin or life may have been. That life has been forgiven and forgotten by
God’s great mercy. “Go and sin no more”. Jesus invites to go and follow him,
who leads to the Kingdom of Love.
God invites
all, rich and poor, small and VIPs, crippled and athletes into his Life. What
he expects from us if faith that He is the Almighty. These women showed their
faith also by giving their wealth to the community of Jesus. They understood
that God is never short in giving his mercy and his Providence. He pays hundred
times more for each pence we give: Good measure, pressed down, shaken
together, running over, will be put into your lap. That good measure is the
Eternal Life, abundant and endless.
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