Dear sisters and brothers,
It's now been a week since we have blessed the graves of our dead and prayed for them. Maybe we have this week more often thought of our dead - maybe even about our own death.
Where are our dead? Or what they're doing now?
We believe in the resurrection of the dead and we have prayed for them and all the poor souls.
Some people think that the life of the departed after death continues just as they have lived here on earth. The people of Jesus' time also had such thoughts. In today's Gospel we hear of the Sadducees. They were a group who deny the resurrection. Some of them come to Jesus and ask him a question, which looks at first sight very logical. He used this question acco.to the Law of Moses. The question is about the future of women who have taken seven brothers in succession for his wife. Whose is this woman after death?
In his reply, Jesus says quite clearly that life after death is very different than here on earth. Through the resurrection, we are like angels. There is no difference between man and woman, rich or poor, politician, farmer and teacher, whether African, Asian or European.
Who is called to participate in the resurrection is without space and time. Only We Human beings on earth need space and time. When one is arisen to God ,then is like angel - who is as God - without space and time.
That is the goal of humanity. This is eternity - without limit, without time.
Only we have to die. With God there is no death. For him all are alive.
Only Here on Earth we need the wedding to make the love between the couple complete and to ensure their descendants for generations. These are all earthly things
What can we understand from today's gospel?
One sentence I find especially important: for him - God - all are alive ... Lk.20.39.
We do not have to be dead, we have the freedom to think and and to work. This time is a gift from God.
In the advertising brochures, I often read the word "free". These free offers are only a few days. After that there is no longer the same offering. Our life is also a "free offer" of God. It is valid for a period of time. We do not know to which day. On the day of our death ends this listing. Then you can not get back the same life and nothing to catch up.
I am always glad that I had viewed in my hometown good experiences in the relations between parents and children. This includes praying together in the evening - in a prayer room - for about half an hour. Only then will eat together. Although it is sometimes difficult for a family, but the children there try to take care of their parents until their death. Here also I could find good people, caring for their parents.
We have only one life. What we want to do good - must be done here and now. I have met many people at the cemetery, crying at the graves of their deceased and regret what they have not done with their loved ones when they were alive.
My parents are old and are still alive. For me it is always a blessing to meet them and, if possible, to make them happy. I try to spend too much time with them, sit with them, take a trip, etc. With each goodbye I'm sad and I hope always to have them for a long time alive. So are we human beings. We always wish that we can be togetherwith our loved ones for long time. Let us ask ourselves whether we also use this gift of time to make our fellow beings happy?
If we can answer this question with YES, we can live with peace in our hearts. Then we can think over in peace about our deceased at the cemetery.
May God help us, in joy and peace to live! Amen.
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