Today the Church invites us to meditate on the resurrection, on account of a dialogue between Christ and a group of Sadducees. The Sadducees do not believe in the resurrection of the dead, and they want to put Jesus in a difficult position with a tricky question. The argument that Jesus gives is that the Lord is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God is not a God of the dead but of the living.
The mystery of the resurrection is that being the baptized children of the Father, we inherit the resurrection by grace with Christ and in Christ.
In the Creed we say “I believe in the Holy Spirit, in the Holy Catholic Church, and in the resurrection of the dead.”
The God who is revealed by Christ is a Father who loves us one by one, really madly loves us. As Pope Francis says: we carry the Father’s DNA in our spirits, in our hearts; a Father who always follows us, looks at us with a look of love, tenderness, delicacy and immense respect. Human beings play life with a single card. The Father does not play with his children, he takes them very seriously.
Every human being has a history, has his dignity and a continuous awareness of being the child of a Heavenly Father.
We should live as true children of the Father. This is our greatness, the challenge and the commitment of our existence. The Father has created us to be free, happy and joyful. Death can end our biological condition but our love for the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is not extinguished. The Creator of life is stronger than death.
The God we believe in is not a God of the dead but of the living, of living people, as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were.
Eternal life, the evangelist says, is “to remain in his love.” The love of God never dies, it transforms from best to best.
What the Church pours on us, like a waterfall, is the joy of the risen Christ, who never abandons us. He who humbled himself to the cross, who lived a human life similar to ours, who is “sitting at the right hand of the Father,” today is our peace and our joy. It is the triumph of life. He is a perfect man and perfect God. He is not a ghost, he whom the apostles lived with. He is the Living One par excellence: “I have overcome the world” (Jn 16,33).
Christ reconciles us with Him and brings us into his glory.
!["El mundo puede cambiar desde el corazón"
(Papa Francisco, Encíclica Dilexit Nos)
"El Corazón de Cristo es éxtasis, es salida, es donación, es encuentro. En él nos volvemos capaces de relacionarnos de un modo sano y feliz, y de construir en este mundo el Reino de amor y de justicia. Nuestro corazón unido al de Cristo es capaz de este milagro social.
Tomar en serio el corazón tiene consecuencias sociales. Como enseña el Concilio Vaticano II, «tenemos todos que cambiar nuestros corazones, con los ojos puestos en el orbe entero y en aquellos trabajos que todos juntos podemos llevar a cabo para que nuestra generación mejore». Porque «los desequilibrios que fatigan al mundo moderno están conectados con ese otro desequilibrio fundamental que hunde sus raíces en el corazón humano». [21] Ante los dramas del mundo, el Concilio invita a volver al corazón, explicando que el ser humano «por su interioridad es, en efecto, superior al universo entero; a esta profunda interioridad retorna cuando entra dentro de su corazón, donde Dios le aguarda, escrutador de los corazones (cf. 1 S 16,7; Jr 17,10), y donde él personalmente, bajo la mirada de Dios, decide su propio destino».
Esto no significa confiar excesivamente en nosotros mismos. Tengamos cuidado: advirtamos que nuestro corazón no es autosuficiente; es frágil y está herido. Tiene una dignidad ontológica, pero al mismo tiempo debe buscar una vida más digna. Dice también el Concilio Vaticano II que «el fermento evangélico ha despertado y despierta en el corazón del hombre esta irrefrenable exigencia de la dignidad», aunque para vivir conforme a esa dignidad no nos basta conocer el Evangelio ni cumplir mecánicamente lo que nos manda. Necesitamos el auxilio del amor divino. Acudamos al Corazón de Cristo, ese centro de su ser, que es un horno ardiente de amor divino y humano y es la mayor plenitud que puede alcanzar lo humano. Allí, en ese Corazón es donde nos reconocemos finalmente a nosotros mismos y aprendemos a amar."](https://www.idente.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
