FR REMI HOMILIES/REFLECTIONS AND SERMONS

Homily for Saturday of the 24th Week in the Ordinary Time, year II  1 Corinthians 15:35-37,42-49; Luke 8:4-15. St. Paul in the First Reading speaks of the implication of the resurrection. He debunks the misconception that the event of the resurrection was not a reality and is inconceivable. He declared that it is stupid to conceive the question "How are dead people raised, what sort of body do they have when they come back?". To deny the resurrection only because we do not understand how the body that is dead and  decomposed could rise again in insufficient. Hence, St. Paul argues that just like a seed sown in the ground dies and after that a living plant springs up, so also it is with the resurrection. The thing that is sown is perishable and what is raised is imperishable, what is down is weak and what is raised is powerful and embodies the spirit. The first man, the earthly man, Adam became a living soul, but the last man became a life-giving spirit.  Beloved in Christ...