Friday, August 16, 2013
The Resurrection of the Body
Dear Friends,
A reading from Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians (1 Cor 15:35-49):
Someone may say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come back?”
You fool! What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare kernel of wheat, perhaps, or of some other kind; but God gives it a body as he chooses, and to each of the seeds its own body. Not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for human beings, another kind of flesh for animals, another kind of flesh for birds, and another for fish.
There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the brightness of the heavenly is one kind and that of the earthly another. The brightness of the sun is one kind, the brightness of the moon another, and the brightness of the stars another. For star differs from star in brightness.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible. It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one. So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit. But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven. As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly, and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one.
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I celebrated Holy Mass yesterday in honor of Our Blessed Mother, as it was the Feast of Her Assumption. In the evening She came to visit me and She gave me a message. It was a very special message.
Below you will find the message of Our Lord, the Son of God, given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words,
“I call you all to believe in the resurrection, especially you My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters living in every country of the world. You know that I was the first person to come back to life after being in the tomb for three days. My Mother was the second person to go to heaven body and soul. All the dead will be raised on the last day when I return to earth to judge the living and the dead. As Saint Paul teaches you, you live on earth with a natural body and it will be buried when you died. At the resurrection, you will receive a glorified body and so you will never be sick again. You will never die again and you will never be tired, hungry or thirsty. With your glorified body you will be filled with great happiness, joy and love. The bliss of heaven will never end. I call you all to prepare for the day you will enter heaven by following my teachings and by avoiding evil. Live in union with Me. I bless you all.”
Father Melvin