A time of Lexio devena for the discerning heart.

Wednesday of the ninth week in ordinary time.

As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly.

For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns. You take over.

Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love,

wanting to be heard deep within your heart.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark, chapter 12, verses 18 through 27.

Some Sadducees who denied that there is a resurrection came to him and they put this question

to him. Master, we have it from Moses in writing if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife but no child,

the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.

Now, there were seven brothers.

The first married a wife and then died leaving no children.

The second married the widow and he too died leaving no children. The second married the widow, and he too died leaving no children.

With the third it was the same, and none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman

herself died. Now, at the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be since she had been married to all seven?

Jesus said to them,

Is not the reason why you go wrong that you understand neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?

For when they rise from the dead, men and women do not marry. No, they are like the

angels in heaven. Now, about the dead rising again, have you never read in the book of Moses in the

passage about the bush how God spoke to him and said, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

He is God, not of the dead, but of the living.

You are very much mistaken.

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