We are preparing ourselves for the greatest feasts on the Christian calendar, and it is all about life in God, life after death. But before we will have this new life we must die.
So a musician says, "Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die, and yet everyone wants to go to Heaven". Today, the first Reading and the Gospel speak a lot about death and rising from the dead. Through the prophet Ezekiel, God told the people of Israel who were slaves in a foreign land, that He would bring them back to their own soil. When they were in slavery it was like they were dead and buried. So he would open their graves, and raise them up and resettle them on their own land. So that they would live the life that God mapped out for them. The Lord said, "He has said it, He has promised it, and it will come to pass."
