The Word–Fr Tony Percy– The Mystery and the Riddle of Death (Fr Tony says the readings this week are about the mystery and the riddle of death. The first reading is from Isaiah chapter 25 and speaks about death as being a veil, a shroud, which will ultimately give way to this magnificent feast on a mountain and in the Gospel Matthew recounts the parable in which Jesus tells us about a king who invites all of the subjects of the kingdom to his son's wedding, an allegory for the ultimate messianic wedding banquet with God. So, death can be very confronting. It's quite definitive. But our faith, of course, teaches us that beyond death, there is the glorious eternal life, eternal resurrected life with Christ. Although we don’t know the time and place of our death but the meaning of death is in fact a wedding with Christ in eternity.)
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