Pope urges Christians to believe in the 'logic' of the resurrection
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By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians are called tobelieve in the logic of the resurrection of the body and not succumb toheresies that reduce it to a mere spiritual experience, Pope Francis said. When looking toward the future, theuncertainty about what happens after death often can lead to not understanding Christianity's"logic of the future," which proclaims that believers will rise willrise again in body and soul like Jesus did, the pope said Sept. 16 during amorning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. "Aspiritualistic piety, a nuanced piety is much easier; but to enter into thelogic of the flesh of Christ, this is difficult. And this is the logic of theday after tomorrow. We will resurrect like the risen Christ, with our ownflesh," he said. In his homily, the popereflected on St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, in which the apostleadmonishes some of the early Christian community for saying "there is noresurrection of the dead.""If there i...
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians are called to
believe in the logic of the resurrection of the body and not succumb to
heresies that reduce it to a mere spiritual experience, Pope Francis said.
When looking toward the future, the
uncertainty about what happens after death often can lead to not understanding Christianity's
"logic of the future," which proclaims that believers will rise will
rise again in body and soul like Jesus did, the pope said Sept. 16 during a
morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
"A
spiritualistic piety, a nuanced piety is much easier; but to enter into the
logic of the flesh of Christ, this is difficult. And this is the logic of the
day after tomorrow. We will resurrect like the risen Christ, with our own
flesh," he said.
In his homily, the pope
reflected on St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, in which the apostle
admonishes some of the early Christian community for saying "there is no
resurrection of the dead."
"If there is no resurrection of
the dead, then neither has Christ
been raised. And if Christ has not been
raised, then empty, too, is our preaching; empty,
too, your faith," St. Paul wrote.
The pope said that, for some, it is
difficult to understand and accept the "logic of the future"
regarding what happens after death. The belief that, like Jesus, Christians
will experience the resurrection of the body "is not easy."
"Yesterday's
logic is easy, today's logic is easy. Tomorrow's logic is easy: We will all
die. But the logic of the day after tomorrow, that is difficult," he said.
Some
Christians "are afraid of the flesh" and may fall prey to "a
certain type of gnosticism" that reduces the resurrection to a purely
spiritual experience; a belief that was "the first heresy" denounced
by the apostle John, the pope explained.
Believing
and having faith that Christ did not rise from the dead "as a ghost"
but rather in flesh and blood is "the logic of the day after
tomorrow that we find hard to understand," he said.
While
it is a sign of maturity to see the logic of the resurrection, Christians must
also pray for the grace to understand it, Pope Francis added.
"You
also need the great grace of the Holy Spirit to understand this logic of the
day after tomorrow; after the transformation, when he will come and will carry
us transformed above the clouds to be with him always. Let us ask the Lord for
the grace of this faith."
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