1.09.13

Lectio: Lk 20.27-38                

Meditatio :  "Jesus said to them,'The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy of the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage’.” Lk 20.34,35

Oratio: O God, the one great gift that was not forfeited in the Great Flood was marriage; but its purpose is served when this earthly life is over.

I remember Jesus told this quite plainly when He said that in the resurrection no one is marries or is given in marriage and the reason is obvious - the resurrected life is for all eternity and there is no need for marriage.

Grant that I may always remember that love endures but the institution of nuptial love is an earthly gift for the purpose of the propagation of the human race and the building up of the church here on earth and that love endures forever but the institution does not.

I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what
God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "this age marry,...resurrection...neither marry’; marriage is for the earthly living but not for those who are risen from the dead; in prayer ask for the grace to love rightly here on earth so that I may live in Love for all eternity.

Tomorrow's reading: Lk 17.1-6