Life After Death - E13 - Your Liturgical Bible

Enacting the Kingdom

Typically, and sadly, when we hear the words "life after death", we think of what happens to our soul after our body dies. Maybe it even spurs us to make sure that we are doing the proper things, thinking the proper way, checking the right boxes, achieving a spiritual condition that will assure we are on the right side of that equation.

The scriptural narrative of life after death shares a much deeper understanding, one of creation and new creation. This is not an individual story, but a communal one, and what we do in this world matters. Everything matters. As Fr Geoffrey shares from a beautiful Rabbinic tradition, planting a tree matters. As Fr Yuri shares from personal experience, cleaning the house for your wife matters. You'll have to listen to see how profound that analogy is. :)

Fr Geoffrey and Fr Yuri also speak about baptism, when we learn to "walk in newness of life", and to participate daily in God's renewal of creation.

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