Many who do not yet know the Lord are fearful of death. Will they simply cease into nothingness? Will their loved ones eventually forget them? They would rather not give death a second thought lest they fall into depression.
Because our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who died for our sins rose from the dead. We have confidence to cry out, “Death where is your sting?” For we know that when we who are Baptised in Him die, we will rise with Him. For Christ has died, Christ has risen and Christ will come again.
This is the reason for our hope! This is the joy of the Gospel, for we shall, all sisters and brothers in Christ be reunited in Heaven; and together with the angels and saints we will sing His praises as One. Amen
Saints Laurent Imbert, Jacques Chastan, Priest, Andrew Kim Taegon, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, pray for us…
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First reading
1 Corinthians 15:12-20 ·
If Christ has not been raised, your belief is useless
Now if Christ raised from the dead is what has been preached, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ himself cannot have been raised, and if Christ has not been raised then our preaching is useless and your believing it is useless; indeed, we are shown up as witnesses who have committed perjury before God, because we swore in evidence before God that he had raised Christ to life. For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, you are still in your sins. And what is more serious, all who have died in Christ have perished. If our hope in Christ has been for this life only, we are the most unfortunate of all people.
But Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep.
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Gospel
Luke 8:1-3
The women who accompanied Jesus
Jesus made his way through towns and villages preaching, and proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom of God. With him went the Twelve, as well as certain women who had been cured of evil spirits and ailments: Mary surnamed the Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, Susanna, and several others who provided for them out of their own resources.
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