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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> today's Gospel reports a conversation Jesus had with some of the
Sadducees, who held that there is no life after death. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>We </b></span>could
practically <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>hear </b><b>their speech on the lips of secularists today. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>But
Jesus is having none of<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> it. </span></b><b>The dead shall indeed rise, </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>he says.
</b></span>Otherwise, how could Moses have spoken of God as the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, all of whom were long dead by Moses' time? But their
risen existence, though in continuity, even bodily continuity, with <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>what
has gone before, will be transformed, transfigured, raised up. </b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Those
who hold to the resurrection of the body are those who are most
effective at working for justice and peace in this world.</b></span> </span></b></b></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">If you are a
complete materialist and secularist, you hold that everything and
everybody, in the end, just
fades away. But if you believe in the resurrection of the body, then
everything in this world is destined for redemption. Everything matters.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>