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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>in today’s Gospel, Jesus is debating the materialists of his day: the
Sadducees, those who deny the resurrection. They put forward an almost
comical case of seven brothers who died leaving no descendants for the
widow. They ask, “</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><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">At the resurrection whose wife will she be?</span><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">” Jesus brushes aside this bit of facile casuistry.</span></b></span><br><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><br></b></span><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(217,234,211)"><b>The
body is a means of communication. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The most intense personal
communication possible is that which happens between two married
people—sexual, psychological, and personal intimacy.</b></span> Given the
limitations and restrictions of our bodies here below,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> this type of
intimacy is possible only with one other person.</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><br></b></span><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>The
heavenly state involves a body too, but a transformed, transfigured,
and elevated body—what Paul called a spiritual body. It is still a means
of communication, but now it is so intense and spiritualized that it
can mediate an intimate communion with all those who love the Lord. </b></span>We
are not less than bodily in heaven; we are super-bodily. We communicate
more extensively and more intimately, and with everyone. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Hence, in
heaven we are not given to one person in marriage, but to all. All of
this becomes plain in the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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