2010年11月7日 星期日 常年期第三十二主日

玛加伯下　7:1-2,9-14
圣咏　17[16]:1,5-6,8,15
得撒洛尼后书　2:16-3:5
路加福音　20:27-38 

否认复活的撒杜塞人问耶稣复活后的景况，值得反省的是他们的动机。他们可能是想借此问题难住耶稣，为自己的观点赢得更多理据。他们不相信复活，所以出此难题，借机向人展示死者复活是多么的荒谬。也有可能他们真的想知道耶稣对于死者复活的看法。当时很多人跟随了耶稣，这证明耶稣是有威望、有智慧的人，连撒杜塞人也来请教祂。撒杜塞人自己对于今世和来生有太多不能明白的地方，而耶稣给他们指出今世和来世的某些区别：人生在世，也娶也嫁，但是来世却不如此。耶稣并没有详细列出来世和今世的其他区别，只是说死后复活就不会再死，因为天主是活人的天主，所有的人为祂都是生活的。人生有长有短，有未出世就夭折，有活一百多年，今生寿命虽有长短，价值并无区别。在天主眼里，每个人都是尊贵的，每个人都是生活的。所以学着以天主的眼光看待世物，会帮助自己养成一种智慧，不再以社会习俗、文化以及社会的或是个人的偏见评判人，而是按着天主启示的真理，顺从耶稣派遣的圣神之光照，在短短的人生中，体验天主的爱，并与人分享这爱。

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)
2 Mac. 7:1-2,9-14
Ps. 16(17):1,5-6,8,15
2 Thess. 2:16-3:5
Lk. 20:27-38
(Ps Wk IV)

As Jesus comes to the end of his public life, his authority is constantly challenged by the establishment. Today it is the turn of the Sadducees, a Jewish sect which only accepted the authority of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament. So they did not accept beliefs which occur in later books, such as the resurrection of the dead. With this in mind, they propose a situation where a woman married seven brothers in succession - all of whom died leaving her childless. They then put what they think is an unanswerable question to Jesus, presuming he accepted life after death. In the next life, which brother will be the woman's husband? For them there is no problem because they held there was no life after death. Jesus answers them in two ways. First, in the next life there will be a whole new set of relationships - all will be children of the one God, brothers and sisters of the Risen Jesus and of each other. Secondly, as to references to life after death in the Pentateuch, Jesus quotes from the scene where Moses speaks with Yahweh at the burning bush (Ex. 3:6) and where God identifies himself as the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob. Concludes Jesus: "God is a God of the living and not of those who no longer exist." As Christians, our calling in this life is already to transcend narrow family relationships and reach out to every other person as a brother or sister.

By this will all know you are my followers, that you love one another.