“I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
- Helen Keller - Here’s a good attitude to join with the affirmation, “Thy will be done.” What is the “something” you can and need to do this
day?
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Acts 18:1-8
Psalm 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 John 16:16-20 Jesus said to his disciples:
“A little
while and you will no longer see me,
and again a little while later and you will see me.”
So some of his disciples said to one another,
“What does this mean that he is saying to us,
‘A little while and you will not see me,
and again a little while and you will see me,’
and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”
So they said, “What is this ‘little while’ of which he speaks?
We do not know what he means.”
Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them,
“Are you discussing with one another what I said,
‘A little while and you will
not see me,
and again a little while and you will see me’?
Amen, amen, I say to you,
you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices;
you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.”
Reflection on the Scriptures
When we are faced with pain, conflict and great loss, sometimes we can be blind to his presence in our lives. But today Jesus tells us that we will see him again. How can that be, if he is going to
the Father? He is telling us that we will see him again because we will one day join him there, at the side of the Father. In the meantime, the world will be rejoicing. We shouldn't be scandalized or discouraged by that. No matter how much we grieve, our grief will be transformed - into joy brought on by our faith that we will see
Jesus again with the Father. This is the heart of the Good News Jesus speaks today. We can live in this world, free from fear, free from anxiety, knowing that Jesus is present to us in this life and that we will join him at the Father's side in the life after. - by Maureen McCann Waldron
The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus, by James Arraj
https://innerexplorations.com/catchtheomor/resurrecion.htm Inner Growth Publications, 2007.
Chapter 4: The Resurrection of Jesus Incorruptible Bodies Karl Rahner in his On the Theology of Death writes that after death
the “human spiritual soul will become not a-cosmic but, if such a term may be used, “all-cosmic”. We might also mention here in passing that, on the basis of this hypothesis, certain parapsychological phenomena, now puzzling, might be more readily and more naturally explained.”57 We might take his remarks as a springboard for some rather imaginative speculations in which we try to see the bodies of the saints sharing in some partial and very deficient way in the state of the resurrected body
they will enjoy in the future so that these signs become symbols of that resurrection to come. Put in another way, we could say that the soul retains an orientation to the body after death, and in certain cases this orientation affects those bodies. We can hardly see these phenomena as manifest miracles witnessing to the resurrection of the body, but they are nonetheless exceedingly strange, and at a minimum we can take them as a sign that we ought not underestimate that mysterious reality we
call the human body.
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