‘It is meaningless to preach at a funeral Mass if we don’t mention the resurrection of Christ.’ Sunday Reflections, 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
Moses with the Ten Commandments Philippe de Champaigne [ Web Gallery of Art ] Teacher, Moses wrote for us . . . (Luke 20:28, today's Gospel) Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel Luke 20:27-38 [or 20:27, 34-38] ( English Standard Version Anglicised: India) There came to Jesus some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, [ and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. And the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. Afterwards the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had he