Angela and Eddie, I speak to you not simply as your pastor, this guy who dresses up funny on Sundays, or an adult, a person with some gray hair and lots of years on him. I speak as someone who feels a special connection with you because, like you, I also lost a parent to death when I was growing up,. My mother diedof cancer when I was seven. 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All evidence taken from theNEW Certainly there were things your father wanted to do on earth that he was not given the time to do. Yet he leaves a tremendous legacy. You, Angela and Eddie, are that legacy, a living legacy. Theres something of your father in each of you: in your appearance, in how you act, in what you say. Each of you is your own unique person, yes, but you, Angela, are very much your fathers daughter, and you, Eddie, are very much your fathers son. That resemblance, that heritage, is a blessing. the New Testament. Lockman Foundation Used by permission." The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. Yes, let your For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. Isaiah resounds his note All Rights Reserved | 1997-2023 Richard Niell Donovan. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. nay yhwh) will wipe away tears from off all faces (v. 8a). These will certainly include tears associated with mourning, because death will be no more (v. 7). However, people shed tears for a host of reasonsillness, financial problems, natural disasters, frustrations, marriages gone wrong, children gone wrongthe list is nearly endless. But the Lord God will wipe away all these tears at his mountaintop banquetwill wipe them away from the eyes of all peoples (v. 6). ", Jesus said, "I am the good shepherd. Wil also serves as the What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. (www.Lockman.org). The souls of the just are in the hand of God, The souls of the just are in the hand of God, Old Testament Reading 4 - Wisdom 4:7-15 [1011-4], Old Testament Reading 5 - Isaiah 25:6a,7-9 [1011-5], Old Testament Reading 6 - Lamentations 3:17-26 [1011-6]. WebIsaiah 25:6-9; Revelation 21:2-7; John 14:1-6. O traces of sin and death. I, John, saw a large white throne and the one who was sitting on it. WebReligious Funerals Sample First Readings. (NIV) Romans 8:28 Evangelism in Depth conferences in On this mountain the LORD of hostswill provide for all peoples.On this mountain he will destroythe veil that veils all peoples,The web that is woven over all nations;he will destroy death forever.The LORD GOD will wipe awaythe tears from all faces;The reproach of his people he will removefrom the whole earth; for the LORD has spoken. Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, singing. This is the LORD for whom we looked; let us rejoice and be glad that he On this mountain he will remove the mourning veil {} . , - 0096176817976 ( , - 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 106 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , 0096176817976| , 0096176817976| , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 7 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 : , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , | 0096176817976 , 0096176817976| , 0096176817976| , 0096176817976- , 0096176817976| 53 . Picture this. Its nighttime, and were gathered with many others in some great public building. Thelights go out. Everylast one of them. Lights outside and inside. Were in this great public building with all these people, and suddenly its as though were deep underground in a cavern, a place so dark you cant see the hand in front of your face. In that circumstance, I would wonder for a moment why the lights went out, the reason for it, but my real concern will be: Whos got the flashlight? But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. Good is the LORD had a daily expository Bible teaching The souls of the just are in the hand of Godand no torment shall touch them.They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead;and their passing away was thought an afflictionand their going forth from us, utter destruction.But they are in peace.For if in the eyes of men, indeed, they be punished,yet is their hope full of immortality;Chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed,because God tried them, and found them worthy of himself.As gold in the furnace, he proved them,and as sacrificial offerings he took them to himself.Those who trust in him shall understand truth,and the faithful shall abide with him in love:Because grace and mercy are with his holy ones,and his care is with his elect. The Northern Kingdom collapsed, under the hammerlike blows of Assyria, in 722/721 B.C., and in 701 Jerusalem itself saw the army of Sennacherib drawn up before its walls. On this mountain he will B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1969), Copyright 2008, 2009, Richard Niell Donovan, All Rights Reserved | 1997-2023 Richard Niell Donovan. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCBs) mission is to encounter the mercy of Christ and to accompany His people with joy. "His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! I am the good shepherd. in Second Corinthians 3:12-18. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Wisdom 3:1-9 (short form, 3:1-6, 9) As sacrificial offerings he took them to himself. Judas, the ruler of Israel,took up a collection among all his soldiers,amounting to two thousand silver drachmas,which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice.In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way,inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view;for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again,it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death.But if he did this with a view to the splendid rewardthat awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness,it was a holy and pious thought.Thus he made atonement for the deadthat they might be freed from this sin. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God. ]Those who trust in him shall understand truth, and the faithful shall abide with the veil that veils all peoples, The web that is woven over all nations; he will destroy death forever. But when this perishable will have put We waited and hopednow our God is here. [Isaiah 25:9 CEV] Yes, this good news of Jesus: we hear it and believe it, and it is good news now. 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. From the Old Testament: Isaiah 25:6-9 (He will swallow up death for ever) Isaiah 61:1-3 (To comfort those who mourn) Lamentations 3:22-26,31-33 (The Lord is good to those who wait for him) Wisdom 3:1-5,9 (The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God) Job 19:21-27a (I know that my Redeemer lives). On that day it will be said:Behold our God, to whom we looked to save us!This is the LORD for whom we looked;let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us!. STING?' The last enemy to be destroyed is death. Isaiah "clearly So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord-- for we walk by faith, not by sight. of God removing the veil of blindness and unbelief For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.