REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE 32ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR 1 14TH NOVEMBER 2023
REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE 32ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR 1 14TH NOVEMBER 2023 Wisdom 2:23-3:9; Ps.34; Luke 17:7-10 Life in Christ God cannot die and so whatever is kept in the hands of God cannot die too. The first reading of today consoles and assures us that when our souls are in the hands of God, no torment will ever come near us. By this statement, natural death was implicitly defined. Since the righteous cannot escape natural death, it therefore means that natural death is not a torment. The first reading went on to say that it is foolishness to see death as an affliction. It does admit that death brings about departure and separation and so, will be accompanied with some pain. But this separation is not a thing of torment to the dead. What torment then is the author of the book of wisdom referring to that will not come upon the souls of the righteous? It is eternal damnation. Eternal damnation is torment because it is pain-unending; the pain of living outside of God’s...