Second Sunday of Lent
It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies. The Scriptures tell us, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit. What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later. Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven. Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man. Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:42-49
Lord, everything you created is important, including this material world and my physical body. But I know what is most important and what lasts forever. Teach me to sow my weakness, my brokenness, my material possessions, and my natural form into the soil of your Kingdom, and may the seeds I have sown flourish and bear eternal fruit. Amen.
O, ye who in cold graves are sleeping, in eternal sleep deep in its grasp holds fast, henceforth awake to joy and bliss.
“CHRIST ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES” BY LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, WORDS BY FRANZ XAVER HUBER