They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. - Luke 20:36
“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.” -Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. In all of the lessons you have learned about Jesus, in the faith you have accepted and have grown into, how far would you live up to His name and call yourself His? The first reading talks about seven brothers being tortured by a king, forcing them to eat pork in violation of God’s law. But even in great pain they endure, even with life at stake, they refuse not to let go of that faith they have in Jesus. For they believe that there is greater life after death given to the one who believe in Jesus. In taking up Jesus in our life: There is faith and there is life. Like the seven brothers,...