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The Reality of Life After Death
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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15 minutes
Released:
Nov 1, 2022
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Friends, our first reading and our Gospel for this weekend have a special resonance for our time because they both speak clearly about life after death. Our dominant secularist or materialist ideology says that matter in motion is all there is; the world came into being, and eventually it will pass out of being. On the other hand, an awful lot of Christians hold to something more Platonic than biblical, thinking of the afterlife as the soul escaping from the body to a purely spiritual place called heaven. But the biblical hope is for the resurrection of the body.
Released:
Nov 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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