Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (3)

Death and God like water and oil

can’t mix

like dry paper and fire burned up in contact

Death

often another word for evil in Scripture and tradition

not just physical death

sin

disease

damnation

God not author of death for humans (first reading and CCC 1008)

result of turning from God

God is life

True, Good

totally incompatible w/ death

presence burns it up, pushes it away

by embracing it for self, destroys it

In Gospels

makes present to illness and death and so banishes it

Death cannot enter into God

like Temple nothing unclean, neither can evil come before God

Thanks be to Christ He will to purify us of it

However, we must seek it in faith

either ally self w/ death and pushed away from the Good or with God and lose sin

in the end like water and oil, evil and God will be totally divided

therefore choose life.

For us

Must seek God totally

like water and oil death not compatible w/ God

the dry parchment of death will be burned up when all things terminate before God

if cling any sin in the end will burn us up with it when exposed to eternal life

what we cling to is like a car we jump in [BETTER DESCRIBE]

its destination is ours

death to death God to God

what do we cling to?

Conclusion

Notes

Me

give something to eat

Christ does this too at His resurrection

“righteousness is immortal

makes pure

both 12 years (of disease of life)

12 meaning:

tribes

government

wearing of long fringes/tassels

Nothing impure enter, but God willing to purify

Commentators

Bede

to God sleep, to man dead (so became custom to say sleep among Christians)

Pitre

Woman is ritually impure (lev 15) b/c flow of blood

can’t come in Temple/ God presence

death/sin never allowed in

As God can call woman ‘daughter’

‘faith’

“sleep”

common used as death e.g. 1 thes 4

actual sleep like sacramental of death

Wisdom

4 points:

God not make death

creation purpose is to be

man made to live forever

death from devil’s envy

CCC 1008