A question on the resurrection!
Today's Gospel raises a very important question concerning marrying in heaven. Without completely being like l the Sadducees, many of us speak of heaven as a continuation of our earthly life. But Jesus breaks this wrong view after hearing this story of the woman who married seven husbands who who were all brothers. In heaven whose wife, will she be?
For Jesus, those who are in the age of the resurrection are nether married or given in marriage. He refers to them instead as angels, children of God, and children of the resurrection.
In order for us to understand this mystery of faith, Jesus refers us to the story of Moses and the burning Bush. There, God Himself said to Moses, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." We note that God refers to these three patriarchs in present tense, not past tense. In other words, they are living in a resurrected life or what we like to call heaven. It is not a continuation of our earthly life.
St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, tells us that we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. We will be like angels, not limited in space and time!
Fr. Georges sac