“He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”  Lk. 20:27-40

The Sadducees, who denied the resurrection, approach Jesus to ridicule faith. They present him with an absolutely unreal case, the result of fantasy. They speak of seven brothers who have been married successively to the same woman. Jesus criticizes their vision of the resurrection. It is ridiculous to think that the definitive life with God will consist in reproducing and prolonging the situation of this life, Jesus’ faith in the afterlife does not consist in something so ridiculous: “God is a God of the living, not of the dead”. God’s union with his sons and daughters cannot be destroyed by death. His love is stronger than our biological extinction. Today’s invitation is to set our gaze more on heaven, beyond the immediacy of each day. (Pagola).