Posted by The WORD in other words (2009) by Fr Fred Mislang SVD – Los Baños, Laguna
Wednesday 9th Week in Ordinary Time
In the film, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, there is a startling sequence wherein a deaf man, named Mr. Singer, asks a young girl what music sounds like.
The smiling teenager stands in front of him so that he can read her lips. She also gestures with her hands and her body. But nothing works. The young girl tries everything she could to convey what music is t the deaf man, but all to no avail. Finally, she and Mr. Singer laugh and give up.
In a way, Jesus ran into similar problem when he tried to reach people about heaven. It was something many would not comprehend, much less understand. For example, in today’s reading the Sadducees imagine heaven to be a kind of a “glorified” version of earth.
But heaven is not a “glorified” version of earth. It is infinitely different kind of reality. Saint Paul could only say so much about heaven: “What no one ever saw or heard of, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Cor 2,9).
