32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: What’s our Attitude towards Death?

Today's 1st reading from 2nd Maccabees recounts the story of the heroic seven brothers and their mother who choose to sacrifice their lives rather than to eat pork. Perhaps astonishingly to us, the mother is the one who is encouraging her sons to offer their lives rather than offend God. How is it that the sons are able to give their lives in this way? How was the mother able to encourage all seven of her sons to be martyrs? Their attitude towards death showed their confidence in the resurrection: That this life is not the final destination but rather means for us to attain eternal life. Do we approach death in the same way?

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