"And he who was dead sat up and began to speak." 🤗️
Today's Gospel show us Christ's compassion for a widowed mother whose dead son was being carried out for burial. 🤫️
The Gospel today also prefigures another mother, the Catholic Church, who weeps unceasingly over the spiritual death of so many of Her children whom She would conduct to the grace of Jesus Christ. Let us remember, therefore, that if by chance we have lost His grace by sinning, our Savior has founded His Church, within which we may again arise in virtue of His Most Precious Blood. 🤗️
Today the Traditional Catholic Church celebrates the Holy Mass of, Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost. Today's Mass lesson for traditional Catholics; Lesson from Holy Gospel: Luke 7, 11-16. At that time Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with Him His disciples, and with a great multitude. And when He came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and a great multitude of the city was with her. And Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, He said to her: Weep not. And He came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And He said: Young man, I say to thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up and began to speak. And He gave him to his mother. And there came a fear on them all: and they glorified God, saying: A great Prophet has risen up among us: and God hath visited His people. 😯️
Why did Christ have compassion on this widow?
To show us that God takes forsaken and afflicted widows under His care, and becomes Himself their comforter and helper, and to teach us that we should do likewise. Christ had, however, still other grounds for His compassion; for He foresaw in this dead youth of Naim the death of the sinner, and in the affliction of the mother the grief which the Church would suffer over the spiritual loss of so many children.
Why did Christ say to this widow, “Weep not”?
To intimate that He would restore her son to her, and at the same time to teach us that we should not mourn and weep to excess for the dead. Saint Paul therefore admonishes us not to be sorrowful in regard to the dead, as others who have no hope of resurrection (1. Thess. iv. 12).
Why did Christ command the bearers to stand still?
To awaken their confidence and to put it beyond doubt that the resurrection of the dead proceeded from Him. This should teach us that a soul that is dead cannot be restored to life so long as the passions which have caused its death, and borne it, as it were, to the grave, are not brought to a stop.
What more do we learn from this gospel?
That no one, however young, is safe from death; and that every one, therefore, should be always prepared for it.
What is often the cause of early death among young persons?
1. Gluttony and intemperance; for by surfeiting and in temperance more perish than by the sword (Ecclus. xxxvii. 34). 2. Lust. 3. Anger; “If you bite and devour one another, take heed you be not consumed one of another” (Gal. v. 15). From angry words often come strife and blows, and not infrequently murder itself. 4. Disobedience. We have dreadful examples to show that God has taken out of the world, early and suddenly, disobedient children; for instance, Absalom. Not without reason does God say to children: “Honor thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayest live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land” (Deut. v. 16).
ON DEATH: INSTRUCTION ON THE CEREMONIES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AT BURIALS:
“Behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and a great multitude of the city was with her.” Luke vii. 12. From the people who thus accompanied the corpse of the young man we should learn to pay the last honors to the dead, and to follow their bodies to the grave.
Why is the cross carried before the corpse?
To signify that the deceased confessed Christ crucified, and departed this life believing in Him and hoping to rise again through Him.
Why are lighted candles placed around and carried before the coffin?
To signify that we pray the deceased may have eternal light. This custom is very old; for Saint Cyprian, who was beheaded for Christ's sake about sixteen hundred years ago, was carried to his grave with lights and the singing of hymns.
Why are the coffin and grave sprinkled with holy water?
In token that the Church desires for the deceased the comfort of God's grace in case he should be detained in purgatory.
Why are the corpse and the grave incensed?
To signify that the deceased, according to his Christian vocation, had been “a good odor of Christ” (11. Cor. ii. 15), and to remind the faithful that their prayers and good works should, like the incense, go up to heaven for the deceased.
Why are psalms and hymns sung?
1. To remind us of the teaching of Saint Paul, that we should not be sorrowful on account of the dead, as are those who have no hope of eternal life; 2. To declare that we esteem the departed happy on account of the rest of which henceforth they are made partakers (Apoc. xiv. 13). This usage descends to us from the Holy apostles, who buried Saint Stephen with the singing of psalms and hymns.
Why are the bells rung at funerals?
To call the faithful to prayer for the dead: for adults, that they may obtain eternal rest; for children, to thank God that He has delivered them from all dangers and temptations, and received them into His heavenly kingdom.
Why is a cross or headstone erected over the grave?
To point out that there lies the body of a Christian and a brother, and to remind us to pray for our friend. 🤨️
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