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Understand How Death Needs to Impact Our Spiritual Life

Understand How Death Needs to Impact Our Spiritual Life There is a truth that is often off-putting. We are all, eventually, going to die. It is a truth that the human heart often avoids. We do a lot to protect ourselves. We cloth ourselves in a way so that we do not get sick. We protect ourselves when we install security alarms. We visit doctors’ offices, especially as we get older. The Homily lists several other ways we protect ourselves. We do all this protection, to keep us safe and to keep us alive. Yet we rarely reflect on death itself. It is inevitable, but we rarely meditate on this topic. The Church recognizes this as well. That is why we have All Souls Day. It is a day where the Church puts before us the mystery of our own mortality. It does so against the horizon that we have all . . . loss someone. When we speak of death, we refer to it as loss of life. When someone passes, those that have been left behind say they have loss someone. When we gather at Mass, we hear about Jesus’ mission of saving those that are loss. Is that what he meant? Interesting! The Homily tells us more. Just like us, when Jesus was born on Christmas Day, He began his movement . . . His journey to the grave. When He decided to take on our humanity, He decided to take on all of humanity, including death. Death is in the world, on account of sin. In the case of Jesus, He embraces death, because He loves us! Note the two different views. On one hand death is a consequence … death is a punishment. Then there is God, who loves us to the point of death, and refuses to let us remain loss. Hear more and understand how death needs to impact our spiritual life. Listen to what the Church actually gives us on All Souls Day. Hear more in this Meditation Media.
Duration
27m
Broadcast on
03 Nov 2022
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other
The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. (2,2,1) When Mary, the sister of Lazarus, came to where Jesus was and saw Him. She fell at His feet and said to Him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping, He became perturbed and deeply troubled and said, "Where have you laid Him?" And they said to Him, "Sir, come and see." And Jesus wept. So the Jews said, "See how He loved Him." But some of them said, "Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?" So Jesus perturbed again came to the tomb. It was a cave and a stone lay across it. Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister said to Him, "Lord, by now there will be a stench. He has been dead for four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised His eyes and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me. But because of the crowd here, I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me." And when He had said this, He cried out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands. And his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus set to the crowd, untie Him and let Him go. Now, many of the Jews who had come to marry and seen what he had done began to believe in Him. The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. You're all going to die.

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Understand How Death Needs to Impact Our Spiritual Life There is a truth that is often off-putting. We are all, eventually, going to die. It is a truth that the human heart often avoids. We do a lot to protect ourselves. We cloth ourselves in a way so that we do not get sick. We protect ourselves when we install security alarms. We visit doctors’ offices, especially as we get older. The Homily lists several other ways we protect ourselves. We do all this protection, to keep us safe and to keep us alive. Yet we rarely reflect on death itself. It is inevitable, but we rarely meditate on this topic. The Church recognizes this as well. That is why we have All Souls Day. It is a day where the Church puts before us the mystery of our own mortality. It does so against the horizon that we have all . . . loss someone. When we speak of death, we refer to it as loss of life. When someone passes, those that have been left behind say they have loss someone. When we gather at Mass, we hear about Jesus’ mission of saving those that are loss. Is that what he meant? Interesting! The Homily tells us more. Just like us, when Jesus was born on Christmas Day, He began his movement . . . His journey to the grave. When He decided to take on our humanity, He decided to take on all of humanity, including death. Death is in the world, on account of sin. In the case of Jesus, He embraces death, because He loves us! Note the two different views. On one hand death is a consequence … death is a punishment. Then there is God, who loves us to the point of death, and refuses to let us remain loss. Hear more and understand how death needs to impact our spiritual life. Listen to what the Church actually gives us on All Souls Day. Hear more in this Meditation Media.